Havoc [DVD]

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Product Description ------------------- Gritty teen drama in which a pair of naïve young girls, Allison (Anne Hathaway) and Emily (Bijou Phillips) learn that even the most insignificant actions can have lasting consequences. Influenced by the hip-hop thug lifestyle and seeking to explore life outside of their insulated, culturally genised suburb, the pretty young teenagers set their s on East LA to experience the 'gangsta' lifestyle first-hand. But by the time they have become immersed in a frightening landscape of drugs, violence and gang brutality, they realise it may be too late to turn back. .co.uk Review ------------- After making her name in The Princess Diaries, Anne Hathaway ( /gp/search?search-alias=dvd&field-keywords=Anne%20Hathaway+-ntsc ) takes a radical detour with this edgy independent drama. As Allie, a wealthy gangsta wannabe, she makes no excuses for her delinquent behaviour: "We're just teenagers and we're bored." When her Pacific Palisades posse, including pal Emily (Bully's Bijou Phillips ( /gp/search?search-alias=dvd&field-keywords=Bijou%20Phillips+-ntsc )), starts hanging out with a Latino gang (including Six Feet Under's Freddy Rodríguez ( /gp/search?search-alias=dvd&field-keywords=Freddy%20Rodr%C3%ADguez+-ntsc )), they learn what thug life is really about. Hathaway couldn't be more game: She swears, she fights--she disrobes (several times). Written and directed by O winners Stephen Gaghan (Traffic) and Barbara Kopple (American Dream), Havoc plays like a B movie, in the vein of the superior crazy/beautiful, and was released straight to video. For Hathaway fans, it's a chance to see this young talent in a very different light, but for Gaghan and Kopple followers, this lurid morality tale is sure to come as a letdown. --Kathleen C. Fennessy