Alone
In A Videostore
Renting At Random
Okay, sickos, here's that perfect video for those nights when all
the copies of Wild Things are rented out (I think you know
what I'm saying, pervs.) Darren Stein's Jawbreaker is a cotton-candied
kaleidoscope of suburban high school kitsch. The movie took a little
heat when it hit theaters for being a "poor man's Heathers",
but it should have taken a few shots for not being able to spot
a punch line in an empty parking lot. Not one laugh in the whole
movie unless you count the inclusion of the Scorpions' "Rock You
Like A Hurricane" on the soundtrack. Rose McGowan (Phantoms)
is predictably scary, Jeff Conaway (Taxi, Grease)
turns in an inspired, effeminate cameo, and Pam Grier squeaks out
the 15th minute of her Jackie Brown fame in a lazily written
cop role.
Recommended only for the too-short Donnas performance and the reoccurring
montages of twenty-something actresses walking down hallways and
out of swimming pools in slow motion. Forget Heathers, this
is John Waters in a strip mall.
Caveat Renter.
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