Thursday, January 24, 2008

What's The Deal With An American Crime?

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An American Crime is a movie I've mentioned before; it stars Ellen Page and Catherine Keener and is based on the real-life events that inspired Jack Ketchum's book, The Girl Next Door. TGND was turned into a movie as well, at pretty much the same time. Neither film ever got much of a release, although TGND is out on DVD already (and sitting beside my DVD player, waiting for me to decide if I'm going to try and finish the book first or give up).

Anyway, BD reports today that:

"We learned this morning that First Look has bumped back the home video release of An American Crime, which stars Academy Award nominee Ellen Page (Juno, Hard Candy). The film, which now arrives on August 19 as it is now running on Showtime, is based on a true story that gripped the nation in 1965..."

I looked up everywhere on Showtime's website and I see no evidence of it playing there. There is a movie called American Crime, that stars Rachel Leigh Cook and that I-thought-vanished hottie Kip Pardue, that's scheduled on Showtime, but these are not the same movies. WTF?

Why is this all so confusing??? Why is a movie starring one current Oscar nominee - Page - and one near-miss nominee for this year - Keener - so freaking hard to see? I get that this material is as dark as dark gets, and nobody probably wants to watch current media darling Page put into the situations I assume she is put into (again, haven't finished the book, but I know the torture-iffic gist) within it, but come on. We're adults here. Is Page burying the movie? I don't know why I should blame her, but I am. It's gotten pretty good reviews from what I've seen. I just don't get it.

Anybody wanna enlighten me? Able to clean up my jumbled understanding of what's happening? Are Rachel Leigh Cook and Ellen Page actually the same person? Stay tuned!

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8 comments:

J.D. said...

Me want answers. Now.

[cries]

RJ said...

Apparently, the film is blah

Glenn Dunks said...

I'm guessing it's a Eddie Murphy situation. They don't wanna release it because voters may see and be turned off and not vote for her. That's what many say happened to Eddie Murphy. They saw ads for Norbit and voted against him. Perhaps the studio behind Juno is paying the studio behind American Crime to push it back? Hmmm.

By the way, how many more movie titles can we get with "American" at the start.

Jason Adams said...

I think the answer to your question, Glenn, is however many nouns there are to go after "American."

That's, um, by my scientific estimations, er, a lot.

TheoSav said...

Kip Pardue does not qualify as a "hottie" and people over the age of 30, hrumph, should not use said term anymore.

Glenn Dunks said...

Well that was rude.

Jason Adams said...

Mon-el is most assuredly a "Nottie."

Unknown said...

See the official website:

http://tommyohaver.com/anamericancrime/?p=20