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Spun
Front Cover Actor
Movie Details
Director Jonas Åkerlund
Language English
Audience Rating Unrated
Running Time 101 mins
Country USA
Color Color
Plot
Spun is an unclassifiable ensemble piece, intentionally bleached of soulfulness and high on visual invention and comic depravity. Set in north Los Angeles, where meth freaks lurch from one motel room to another in search of companionship and a score, the film stars Jason Schwartzman as Ross, whose life is rapidly disintegrating. Fielding phone messages from his mother and trying in vain to reach an old girlfriend, Ross spends most of his time on a feverish circuit with the half-mad Cookie (Mena Suvari) and Nikki (Brittany Murphy), the dangerously paranoid Spider Mike (John Leguizamo), and a macho drugmaker called the Cook (Mickey Rourke). Director Jonas Akerlund's story is nonexistent, but then again Spun is driven by the blurry, hellish energy of a life lived on speed. An obvious influence is Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream, but Akerlund is interested in nightmarish set pieces than tiny horrors of misfired nerve endings and ravaged time. --Tom Keogh
Personal Details
Seen It Yes
Index 1125
Collection Status In Collection
Links Amazon US
Product Details
Edition Unrated Version
Format DVD
Region Region 1
Screen Ratio 1.85:1
043396011663
Release Date 7/22/2003
Subtitles English; French; Spanish
Audio Tracks English Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
French Dolby Digital 5.1
Nr of Disks/Tapes 1