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R

2007

1h 38m

Drama

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60%

35 Reviews

Tomatometer

56%

500+ Ratings

Audience Score

Interconnected stories are told entirely through images captured on security cameras in storage rooms, police cars, parking lots, shopping malls and other locations. Store manager Tony (Hayes MacArthur) has affairs with the women who work under him, high schooler Sherri (Spencer Redford) schemes to seduce teacher Berry (Jamie McShane), a pedophile stalks his next victim at a mall food court and two thieves go on a killing spree that links to other tales witnessed by the unseen electronic eyes.

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Critics Consensus

Though Adam Rifkin's voyeuristic film sometimes feels like only a clever gimmick, it's for the most part a compelling thriller with political overtones.

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Audience Member

This movie is a classic, all filmed using surveillance camera's plus it was funny and completely entertaining.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/28/23

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Audience Member

Was disturbing, but one of those movies I couldn't stop watching.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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Audience Member

Pretty good, but sometimes I think the techniques end up making it feel even more setup than a normal movie and kind of pulls you out of it. I get the point Rifkin is making with the cameras everywhere, but sometimes that looming message doesn't give the story enough room.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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Audience Member

One of the best movies that I've seen in ages. Filmed entirely from the perspective of surveillance cameras. The story interweaves in interesting and unexpected ways. Some times creepy in the voyaristic feeling that it leaves with the viewer as we watch the story unfold. Highly recommended.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Audience Member

Not since Crash has a movie invoked so many emotions out of me. This movie is a journey through one's senses. I'll admit that I wasn't feeling the whole surveillance camera idea, but that's before I began watching it. This movie is gripping, frightening, thrilling, arousing, angering, disgusting, saddening, etc.. Only one who goes into it with a cynical mindset will miss the point of a film like this and come away viewing it as a failed attempt at something grand. The movie works and in a year (2009) suffocated by mediocre, dry American film-making, this is an extremely refreshing burst of air.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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Audience Member

An interesting idea but it's fairly predictable and dumb.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Adam Rifkin

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Rhys Coiro

Ace

Sebastian Feldman

Ron

Hayes MacArthur

Tony Gilbert

Giuseppe Andrews

Willie

Spencer Redford

Sherri Van Haften

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Maureen M. Hart

Chicago Tribune

The performances feel natural, improvised, and it's easy to believe this is the world we inhabit.

Rated: 2.5/4

Mar 27, 2008

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Noel Murray

AV Club

If the idea is that we're always being watched, why does it seem that in this movie, no one's really paying attention?

Rated: C-

Dec 20, 2007

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V.A. Musetto

New York Post

There are some funny moments, plus occasional nudity and sex, but the joke quickly wears off. What might have worked as a half-hour TV show doesn't suit itself to a feature-length film.

Rated: 1.5/4

Dec 14, 2007

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Sean Axmaker

Seanax.com

Rifkin has a cynical view of human behavior and he plays it for cheap titillation and bleak humor, which is mean-spirited at best and glib at worst.

May 3, 2009

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Jenny Peters

Hollywood.com

Rated: 3/5

Oct 1, 2008

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Josh Bell

Las Vegas Weekly

By the end, you're ready to call for the abolition of video surveillance, if only so that you can stop watching all these irritating characters.

Rated: 2/5

Mar 20, 2008

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Synopsis

Interconnected stories are told entirely through images captured on security cameras in storage rooms, police cars, parking lots, shopping malls and other locations. Store manager Tony (Hayes MacArthur) has affairs with the women who work under him, high schooler Sherri (Spencer Redford) schemes to seduce teacher Berry (Jamie McShane), a pedophile stalks his next victim at a mall food court and two thieves go on a killing spree that links to other tales witnessed by the unseen electronic eyes.

Director: Adam Rifkin
Screenwriter: Adam Rifkin
Rating: R (Strong Sexual Content|Brief Drug Use|Some Violence|Pervasive Language)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (DVD): May 5, 2009
Box Office (Gross USA): $16.1K
Runtime: 1h 38m