Idle Hands Movie Review 1999

Pothead slacker Anton (Sawa) finds that his very idle hand is possessed by a demon, making him do things he doesn't want to do, like get up off the couch and kill his friends Mick (Green) and Pnub (Henson). When Anton cuts off the offending appendage, it's free to terroroze his girlfriend Molly (Alba). With the help of a Druid priestess (Fox) and his now undead friends, Anton must stop the hand from taking Molly's soul to Hell. Even if the release hadn't coincided with the Littleton tragedy, this tasteless horror-comedy wouldn't be funny. Relentless overacting tries to cover up for a lame script filled with pot jokes and gory high school slasher conventions. Green and Henson are the only bright spots.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 90 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Horror Comedy, School Daze, Renegade Body Parts, Halloween, Eyeballs!, Drug Use & Abuse, Stupid Is...

Screenplay

Terri Hughes, Ron Milbauer

Cast

Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Elden (Ratliff) Henson, Jessica Alba, Christopher Hunt, Vivica A. Fox, Jack Noseworthy, Sean M. Whalen, Nicholas Sadler, Fred Willard, Katie Wright, Connie Ray

Cinematography

Christopher Baffa

Director

Rodman Flender

Music

Graeme Revell

Producer

Andrew Licht, Jeffrey Mueller, Jennifer Todd, Suzanne Todd, Sony Pictures