Havoc / Anne Hathaway

[tpfkabi]

                                 
http://www.mdpworldwide.com/mdp/movies.asp?movieID=16

I wondered if anyone got to see a screening of this film? From what I've read, the film is pretty horrible. The only thing that is hyping it is the fact that Anne Hathaway appears nude multiple times. It's kinda funny to see Anne with big hoop earrings! The poster makes me think of the Criterion cover art for A Woman is a Woman.

[matt35mm]

It does indeed look bad, and I hear that there's a lot of nudity overall in this.  Also, Mandy Moore was originally cast in Anne Hathaway's role, but maybe she dropped out because of the nudity.

[El Duderino]

Stefen will be all over this soon.

[Stefen]

This is definetely career suicide, it just looks silly. But there is nudity so it'll be alright. I think the only selling point will be Anne Hathaway nude, so when people see it for that reason alone, she will start to only appear in movies nude.

[03]

bijou rox

[pete]

ann hathaway makes cankles okay.

[MacGuffin]

From Premiere Magazine:

You wouldn't guess it from looking at her, but Anne Hathaway has become a poster child for extreme makeovers. Her Mia Thermopolis in 2001's The Princess Diaries begins as a frizzy-haired high school student and emerges a straight-haired, Audrey Hepburn-esque royal. In this year's Ella Enchanted, her spunky girl next door reverses a spell and snags a prince. And in The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, Hathaway's more mature Mia is crowned Queen of Genovia.

Now, at 21, the New Jersey native is looking to do an extreme makeover of sorts on her wholesome image -- one that may surprise her tween fan base as well as the legions of adults who consider her fairy-tale films a guilty pleasure. "I guess for some people I'm a representaional figure," she says, dressed unprincesslike in red workout gear and an Elton John trucker hat. "But I have to honor who I've always been, which is somebody who wants to play different characters."

With her next role, as Allison in Havoc, a film about spolied Los Angeles teens who take their fascination with gang lifestyle a step too far, she's getting to do just that. Havoc's director, the award-winning documentarian Barbara Kopple (Wild Man Blues), was almost done with auditions when Hathaway showed up at the last minute. "She just sort of lit up the room," says Kopple. Still, she needed a second meeting to be convinced of the sweet-looking actress's bad-girl capabilities. "I came in and I was a bitch," Hathaway says. "I guess that was the thing they wanted to see."

Aside from her dead-on portrayal of teenage desperation, it is Hathaway's topless scene that has given Havoc so much buzz. "It's pretty phenomenal that Annie could go from Princess Diaries to Havoc," says Kopple. "That's a wonderful stretch. There is halfway point." Hathaway is tired of defending her decision. "It's not a very sexy scene," she says. "It's supposed to make you really uncomfortable that this girl, who is 17, is going through this. That fact that she's flaunting her body, her sexuality -- that's the whole point."

[MacGuffin]

So this went straight to video. Out today:

[Pubrick]

yep the sex scenes leaked months ago. they're alrite i guess.

no lips 

hahha "with never before seen footage".. uh yeah, the whole film.

[Ultrahip]

so uh...what's the deal with this being written by stephen gaghan? this just doesn't jibe.

anyhow, seeing syriana tonight and gaghan is supposed to be in attendance, which will be way cool.

[matt35mm]

Ask him about Havoc.  Get all up in his face about it.  I bet it's an uncomfortable subject for him, so prod him extra hard about it.

[Ultrahip]

Your right, I should do that.

[MacGuffin]

Richard Roeper said that, had this been released theatrically, it would have made his Top Ten list of 2005. Ebert had yet to see it, but now wanted to.

[Pubrick]

Ebert had yet to see it, but now wanted to.

(we all know why)

[w/o horse]

It just didn't work at all.  I don't know what the sequence of writers was, but I'd be most dissapointed if Gaghan was the last to touch it.  Because I'll tell you what, either someone else came in and left his good lines and made the rest shitty, or Gaghan came in and put in good lines and left the rest shitty.  It wants to be realistic but it wants to be social commentary and goddamn the two do not fit together here at all.  The documentary aspect is so forced it collapses on itself.  Remember how they were a bit hard to swallow in CQ?  It's like one hundred times more awkward here.  The gangster element is a joke.  The rich white girl element is a joke.  Neither are developed enough, they swallow each other, and damnit it just didn't work at all.

Rent it if you must, but it's not worth buying.

B-.