Disturbing Behavior Movie Review 1998

Gavin (Stahl) welcomes new kid in town Steve (Marsden) by pointing out the social castes at Cradle Bay High School. The Uber-group is the goody-goody Blue Ribbons, an excessively straitlaced and perky group of athletes and cheerleaders. Along with fellow outcasts Rachel (Holmes) and U.V. (Donella), they joke about a possible conspiracy, but when Gavin shows up with a crewcut and an inordinate love of pep rallies and bake sales, his friends know something is up. They discover that parents have allowed the school shrink (Greenwood) to use drugs to tinker with the brains of the Blue Ribbons. They also discover that the Stepford Teens' vanilla lives are topped with sprinkles of homicidal fury. Director Nutter creates just the right creepy and paranoid mood in his feature debut.

Distribution

MGM Home Entertainment, 2500 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90404-6061, Phone: (310)449-3000, Fax: (310)449-3100, URL: http://www.mgmhomevideo.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 84 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Errant Educators, Teen Horror, Hell High School, Rebel With a Cause, Shrinks, Killer Teens, Brainwashed

Screenplay

Scott Rosenberg

Cast

James Marsden, Nick Stahl, Katie Holmes, Bruce Greenwood, William Sadler, Chad E. Donella, Ethan (Randall) Embry, Steve Railsback

Cinematography

John Bartley

Director

David Nutter

Music

Mark Snow

Producer

Armyan Bernstein, Jonathan Shestack, C.O. Erickson, Village Roadshow Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures

Awards

MTV Movie Awards 1999: Breakthrough Perf. (Holmes).