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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: New Line Home Video
Salesrank: 63312
Released: November 29, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A group of wealthy Los Angeles teenagers try to become part of the "gangsta" lifestyle but soon run into trouble when they come face to face with a real gang of Latino drug dealers.
Description of Havoc (R-Rated Version):
After making her name in The Princess Diaries, Anne Hathaway takes a radical detour with this edgy independent drama. As Allie, a wealthy gangsta wannabe, she makes no excuses for her delinquent behavior: "We're just teenagers and we're bored." When her Pacific Palisades posse, including pal Emily (Bully's Bijou Phillips), starts hanging out with a Latino gang (including Six Feet Under's Freddy RodrÃguez), 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 Oscar 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
Havoc (R-Rated Version) Reviews:
Havoc 
2009-11-22 - This movie is a bit disturbing as it shows teenagers thinking they are smarter than they actually are. These two girls, Allie and Emily, inspite of their upper class upbringing, seek to join a Latin gang. They claim they are bored and are looking for excitement. The problem is they don't realize that the Latin gang plays for keeps and these girls are really nothing more than high school seniors.
The film should cause alarm for parents of young girls as this type of behavior, though overdramtatized for the movie, is not too far from the truth. Too many young girls think they can handle the situations live presents but then find things area lot more complicated than they are capable of dealing with.
The acting, especially Anne Hathaway, is good. Freddy Rodriguez is a convincing gangster. The story moves reasonably well and the plot is plausible. I think the emotions of the parents were downplayed, but overall this is not a bad movie. But watch it at your own risk as it is quite graphic.
misunderstood movie 
2009-06-24 - It seems to me that people are not relating to this movie and so they are writing harsh reviews. This movie shows the life of a girl who feels like everything is fake in her life. Only her friend Emily seems real. Teenagers, especially girls go through so much growing up. With the demands of our culture's sexual expression, for us to be older than we are. Anne Hathaway's character needed to feel something real and she had the charisma to stay safe. Her exploits into the ghetto was in an attempt to feel something more. This wasn't some prissy the drug dealer falling for the pretty rich girls like crazy beautiful, this movie was more real. It gave a glimpse to others of what it is like when you idolize something ugly (living in the ghetto) to the point that its beautiful. THis real experience with the gang was neccessary to teach her. The life that rappers rap about isn't the kind of life that you want to live, its one you have to survive and possibly overcome to provide your family/children with money.
This movie is more than just anne hathaway naked. This movie is for girls like anne hathaway's character, girls that are bored, beautiful, intelligent and lonely. Girls that have found power in their sex but haven't quite found a comfort in who they are. She feels like she has no power and so the little power she finds, she exploits. She goes after the gang member because he is different, harder, powerful (at least in her eyes when he was wheeling the gun) and sexy because of that.
The movie is really good, but geared toward specific audiences. This movie isn't for everyone.
So funny 
2009-05-13 - THe movie was not absolutely bad but sure was funny watching a bunch of rich kids trying to be gangsta...lol... then they fell into a mess and surprise surprise poor lil rich white gurl cry rape..
Not a great movie but not bad either
2009-03-25 - I saw this movie the other night and decided it wasnt a waste of time. It actually contains a story. If you have some spare time and you can rent it, get it for cheap or watch it on IFC you wont be disappointed.
Cry havoc, let loose....Anne!! 
2009-01-24 - Anne Hathaway and Bijou Phillips play two friends who are rich, spoiled brats who are bored with having virtually everything. Their sheltered upbringing leaves them thirsting for some sort of excitement. This, in-turn, leads the young ladies down a dark road of drugs & violence. Early on in the story they hang out with a white gang full of people who act like they're black gangstas. From there, our mis-guided friends believe they're moving up the food chain by hanging out with a Mexican gang in a sordid part of L.A. where even the L.A.P.D. is reluctant to go.
This movie seems to me to be an overt attempt by Hathaway to shed her The Princess Diaries (Full Screen Edition) persona. If her objective was to keep from being type-cast in the future as only capable of happy-go-lucky roles, then she succeeded! She is perfect for the present role precisely BECAUSE she doesn't look like a young woman who would be prone to hang out w/gangs; she would seem far too demure and innocent for that sort of thing.
Even though the movie is unrated, I still was not expecting Anne to shed her clothes. I will concede that I nearly fell off my couch when she first took her shirt off! Anne has the capacity to be the Denise Richards of her generation, and quite possibly become a far more accomplished actress than Richards. In time, she may even approach the calibre of our girl Jennifer Connelly!
The story itself is a dark one. The characters of Anne & Bijou must learn a basic lesson of growing up the hard way: when you play with fire long enough, eventually you are going to get burned. It's all fun & games, after all, until a psychopathic drug dealer is pointing a gun @ your head. Along the same path, the movie has a serious erotic element to it that quickly takes a left-turn and becomes disturbing. I'm guessing that's what usually happens when you combine gangs with sex. I'm guessing that's typically not a prudent nexus?
If you're into gang movies, this film is a must. If you're not into mob movies but you're very into seeing Anne Hathaway topless, then this DVD is a must. The fact that Anne's real-life boyfriend was sent to jail for being a white collar scam-artist may be an interesting footnote to your motivations for picking up this one.
