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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
How is it possible that 11:14 went virtually unreleased in theaters? After modest film-festival exposure, it played briefly in San Francisco in August 2005 (over two years after it was completed), but that's a cruel twist of fate for such a cleverly twisted movie about cruel twists of fate. Destined for sleeper status on DVD (and given a slightly higher profile by Hilary Swank's subsequent Oscar-winning performance in Million Dollar Baby), the audacious debut of writer-director Greg Marcks boasts a fantastic cast in a smartly constructed comedy/thriller, partly inspired by Blood Simple, in which a fatal traffic accident is examined and re-examined from multiple perspectives. The flashback structure involves all of the characters and events that lead up to the accident's deadly occurrence at 11:14 on an otherwise pleasant evening in Middleton, a typical suburb of Anytown, USA (filmed in the vicinity of Los Angeles). Marcks's screenplay attracted an impressive ensemble cast (costar Swank also signed on as an executive producer), and they're all given equal time as the intertwined plots are revealed. They include Rachael Leigh Cook (whose bad-girl behavior sets the chain of events in motion); Patrick Swayze and Barbara Hershey as her worried parents; Swank and Shawn Hatosy as would-be criminals with a dimwit plan; Henry Thomas as a drunk driver whose involvement is deeper than we realize; and Colin Hanks as one of three teenage vandals on a fast track to trouble. With falling corpses, graveyard sex, reckless gunplay, and a severed penis, it's all in good, grisly fun (apart from intricate plotting, Marcks has no lofty agenda up his sleeve), and there's ultimately not much point to its random misfortune, but 11:14 is clearly the work of a promising filmmaker, worthy of rediscovery on DVD. Bonus features include Marcks's intelligent commentary, a standard behind-the-scenes featurette, and a useful "character jump" feature allowing viewers to choose a plot trajectory whenever one character encounters another. --Jeff Shannon
11:14 Reviews:
Great Mystery 
2009-10-22 - This movie floored me, I was captivated all the way through. If you like a puzzle and inter-linkage of story lines, this is for you. Very dark humor, but also suspenseful to a fault. Good one if you like something a little different.
Rather strange fare 
2009-10-11 - Very strange movie...you must pay close attention to get it all in. Every thing that happens does coincide but a few things are never answered and left hanging, so I feel it is a decent movie. But in a few areas it lacks. Patrick Swayze and Hilary Swank give great performances.
11:14
2009-09-30 - One of the great physical laws is cause and effect. Life is geared around this law.
11:14 is one of those rare gems of a film which came out of the gate and found no audience to embrace it. The DVD gives the buyer another opportunity to experience a well crafted story with subplots which all fall together so neatly in an enjoyable package.
Make no mistake this is a dark comedy with a bit of the Twilight Zone tossed in for good measure. The incidents are funny, yet their fateful interconnection brings tragedy.
If you like an interlocking puzzle, then this story will please you. The cast is great. However, the vocabulary is limited, especially in the use of a certain four letter F word.
Really, do current teenagers have such limited vocabularies? If so, then the SAT is a waste of time and money.
Back to the film, it was good to see Patrick Swayze playing such a different type of character-an overly concerned father with his own issues. Clark Gregg gave an outstanding performance as the police officer who had to deal with all of these events leading up to 11:14.
If this is your genre, then it is worth your ninety minutes. If not, don't waste your time or money on this film.
Dark, Funny and Swayze Crazy
2009-06-29 - Picture 'Pulp Fiction' only with a dismembered member and a man getting his face caved in during sex only to have it eaten by a dog, and you might get a sense of the madness that goes down at 11:14. The film is very cleverly written and directed by Greg Marcks. Focusing on a handful of interweaving stories occurring at 11:14, weird things happen and people collide in surprising ways. At the center of it all is a manipulative girl (a sexy Rachael Leigh Cook) who has three men wrapped around her finger. Her religious dad (a creepy and funny Patrick Swayze) goes overboard protecting and following his little girl around. A drunk driver (Henry Thomas) has an accident when something thrown from a bridge smashes through his windshield. Figuring it's a deer, he's horrified to discover it's a mutilated body. A concerned driver (Barbara Hershey) pulls up next to him and calls the cops before taking off. When the officer (Clark Gregg) arrives to administer a sobriety test he already has two people (Hilary Swank and Shawn Hatosy) in his backseat. The driver makes a break for it and so do the other two. On the other side of town, a trio of rowdy teens (Colin Hanks, Ben Foster and Stark Sands) drive around in a van destroying property. What happens to one of them is horrifying and hilarious, involving a retrieval mission like you've never seen. In another part of town, two convenience store employees come up with a plan to rob the store and then rig it to look like an armed robbery. They aren't the criminal masterminds they think and one winds up shooting the other by accident. Every performance rocks, with standouts being Hilary Swank, looking sexy in braces, and Colin Hanks who's just as likable as his dad. The film's an extremely fun ride that seems confusing at times but makes total sense at the end.
Very well written
2009-05-27 - Brilliant story line. The kind of movie you have to watch a few times before you make all the connections.
