Two spoiled teenagers decide to commit a perfect murder, and one deeply flawed cop vows to trip them up in this glossy, less-than-compelling thriller about the darkness in the human heart. Everyone thinks San Benito, Calif., high school seniors Richard Haywood (Ryan Gosling) and Justin Pendleton (Michael Pitt, styled to look uncannily like convicted killer Damien Echols, whose case was documented in the 1996 film PARADISE LOST) hate each other: Richard, after all, is a rich, smart, chic and popular A-teen, while Justin is an insecure, bookish nerd. But they're secret best friends, bound by a none-too-subtle homoerotic attraction and a pop-Nietzschean pact to achieve ...
Released:
2002
Rated:
R
Length:
94 mins