女排猎鹰队的小面包车抛锚后，她们困在了前不着村、后不着店的地方。殊不知落到了原始猎人的领地，而且追捕即刻开始。漫漫长夜就此展开，这一晚她们疲于奔命，团队精神也经受着考验。但是，女孩们远比看起来更加足智多谋。在森林中心，翻盘在即……
Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley's early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch. Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career. Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality (though using sex for several years); obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple. Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich (e.g., her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude (but unseen) work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc.) As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance. A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life. Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone ("I'm a mechanic"), yet the symbolism is rich: he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy (is, in fact a virgin), and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well. The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense. Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable. What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is. A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played. The scene between Josh and Jane (a wonderful, young Edie Falco . . . "You need a woman not a girl") is hilarious . . . real. But Hartley can't leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue over-and-over becomes frustratingly "arty" and annoying . . . until again it becomes hilarious. What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film (like kids in a perpetual "am not"/"are too" argument). Hartley's weaves all of a small neighborhood's idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the "unbelievable truth" of the title is, yet no two people can agree (including our hero) on what exactly that truth is. A wonderful little movie with some big ideas.
A good solid film for only a million dollar budget. The plot is believable and right along the same lines as Mission Impossible 2...and this movie came out 2 years before MI2. Maybe MI2 saw this and copied it on a big scale. Ron Pearlman is as sinister as he always is and Clint Howard plays the same quirky, goofball he is so good at. Annabelle Schofield and Morgan Brittany are sexy and fun to watch.
群馬県の遊園地の売店でアルバイトをしている高校3年生の梅田ココアは、学校では成績優秀だが、家庭は貧しい。共に暮らすギャンブル狂の父・シゲルと、元漫才師でニートの兄・トキオの犠牲者だと感じながら生活しているため、自分の将来に希望が見出せないでいる。そんなココアには秘密が。学校とバイトの合間に、あるビデオ「クラッシュビデオ」に出演しているのだ。当初は、兄の元相方・カズオから無理やり頼みこまれて出演していたが、次第に本人も踏み潰す感触に快感を覚えた。あるときココアは、大学に特待生/奨学金という制度があることを知り一念発起して進学を目指すことに。数少ない友人のサクラは大学への進学を希望、もう一人の友人アイコは年上の彼氏と付き合っている中で妊娠が判明。ココアは2人と過ごしていくうちに自らの将来に希望を見出していく。そんな中、クラッシュビデオの出演が学校にバレて――。
