Swedish director Jonas Akerlund's high-wire portrait of crystal meth addicts on a three-day bender is enthralling, if ultimately pointless. Middle-class Ross (Jason Schwartzman) thinks he's a weekender, but his speed-fueled weekends last seven days, and one blends seamlessly into the next. He's dropped out of college, lost his girlfriend and lives in a motel somewhere in the San Fernando Valley, dating cranked-out strippers and dodging his disapproving next door neighbor (Deborah Harry). All he has left of his former life is his battered car, which gets him in good with the Cook (Mickey Rourke), who cooks up methamphetamine in the run-down hotel room he shares with N...
Released:
2002
Rated:
NR
Length:
96 mins