Disturbing Behavior
by David Nutter
List Price:
Our Price: $10.49
You Save: $4.49 (30%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $3.65 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Bruce Greenwood, James Marsden, Katie Holmes, Nick Stahl, Steve RailsbackDirector: David Nutter
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-01-05
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Disturbing Behavior
Movie Review: C'mon Ray Ray, give up the play for ol' Chuck!
Summary: 4 Stars
Disturbing Behavior is essentially an American adaptation of the classic A Clockwork Orange. Where juvenile delinquints were targeted before, now it's every kid who doesn't exude the perfect behavior.
The movie begins with a teenage couple making out at an overlooking bluff. When the girl gets a little too frisky, the young man tells her that he "needs his fluids". When she doesn't follow his suggestion, his eyes glow slightly, and then he snaps her neck. To make matters worse, the local police happen upon the scene, and at least one of the cops is complicit. Unfortunately for them, this is all seen by a local kid named Gavin (Nick Stahl), who has an inexplicably verbose vocabulary for a high school student.
Meanwhile, the perfect WASP family is moving into quiet Cradle Bay, a community where the most happening place is a Yogurt Shoppe, and the most exciting news is usually related to a bake sale somewhere. Steve (James Marsden) is the clean-cut, go-getter, and like the rest of his family, he is recently mourning the loss of his older brother. At his new school, however, he'll soon be mourning the fact that the social divide is far beyond most high schools; it's the "Greasers" versus the "Soc'ias", but to the Nth degree. In the new school, as explained by Gavin and an albino friend nicknamed UV, it's "Motorheads", "Microgeeks", "Skaters", and "Blue Ribbons", a group of school do-gooders, who are just a little too perfect, a little too 1950s.
Steve soon sees Rachel (Katie Holmes), a beautiful outcast who ridiculously insists on using the word "razor" as a slang term. Katie Holmes may have never been better looking in a movie. Soon enough he's distracted, however, by one of the Blue Ribbon kids going berzerk and beating two other high school kids, even ripping out a nose-ring, because his attraction to Rachel was too much to handle. It seems that when Blue Ribbons have emotional or sexual attraction they're not quite up to Blue Ribbon standards.
Within two days, Steve notices that one of the rougher students, who recently got in a fight with one of the Blue Ribbons, has suddenly become a straight-laced Blue Ribbon. It's just a bit too odd for Steve, or anyone else's tastes. He hears about Gavin's theory that the kids at school are being brainwashed and/or lobotomized by the school therapist Dr. Caldicott, and he meets Mr. Newberry, an insane janitor at the school.
To prove his theories, Gavin sneaks into school with Steve one evening, and learns that Gavin's parents are planning on enrolling him into one of the weekend retreats that has helped, maybe even created, the rest of the Blue Ribbons. What happens next shocks everyone.
As a result, Steve and Rachel realize they must fight the rest of the school, the growing school conspiracy, the Blue Ribbons, and what seems like the entire town in order to find out what has been happening. It's a race to not only save themselves, but also friends and family who may be affected. Disturbing Behavior is a well-made adaptation, with great acting, and a few interesting twists to keep the viewers guessing.
Summary of Disturbing Behavior
Hot stars James Marsden ("Bella Mafia"), Katie Holmes ("Dawson's Creek") and Nick Stahl (The Thin Red Line) set the screen ablaze in this breathlessly fast-paced jolt-fest from veteran "X-Files" director David Nutter. Written by Scott Rosenburg (Con-Air) and featuring a hip soundtrackfrom the hottest bands around, this "clutch-your-armrest thriller" (Teen People) will pull you into the undercurrent of a deranged high school cliqueand drag you away screaming! Achieve, be excellent...and be afraid. For when the esteemed Blue Ribbon club of Cradle Bay High take their slogans too far, things in the small coastal town begin to go wrong. Dead wrong. And when a "dark sinister force" begins turning the school's curricularly challenged into the soulless, academic elitethree "outsiders" join in a desperate race to avoid becoming insidersand losing their individuality forever!This paranoia-fueled thriller, more intelligent and imaginative than you would have reason to believe, owes a huge debt to The Stepford Wives with its premise of a goody-good high school clique programmed by an evil doctor to be wholesome, academically driven, and shining examples of clean living. Unlike its predecessor, though, David Nutter's film opts to open up its premise for everyone to see, diluting the scares but amplifying the creepy atmosphere. There's never any question of what's happening to the students of Cradle Bay High, who go from being druggies and sex fiends to the academically excellent Blue Ribbons, but it's a lot of fun to see these programmed teens run amok--and start killing people--when their hormones kick in. And considering they're all horny teenagers, this happens, oh, at least a few times a day. Model-perfect James Marsden, with stunning cheekbones and piercing blue eyes, is the new kid in town who stumbles on the plot with a little help from metalhead Nick Stahl. Moody Marsden stirs up trouble when he refuses to join up with the Blue Ribbons, prompting his concerned parents to consider signing him up for the program, especially after it turns Stahl into a vest-wearing, pep-rallying brainiac. The satire isn't entirely fulfilled (the evil kids hang out at the yogurt shop and spout inspirational platitudes), but once the action kicks in it's quite an enjoyable ride, thanks primarily to Bruce Greenwood (of The Sweet Hereafter) as the mad scientist behind it all and Katie Holmes (Go) as Marsden's love interest. Refusing the advances of the star football player and fighting gamely alongside Marsden, Holmes manages to deck a few bad guys with a fervor that squarely puts her in Linda Hamilton and Jamie Lee Curtis territory. With Steve Railsback as the colluding chief of police and Dan Zudovic as a janitor with a penchant for getting rid of "rats," rodent and otherwise. --Mark Englehart
Action & Adventure DVD Video
DVD Video
- Action & Adventure
- African American Cinema
- Animation
- Anime & Manga
- Art House & International
- Classics
- Comedy
- Cult Movies
- Documentary
- Drama
- Educational
- Fitness & Yoga
- Gay & Lesbian
- Horror
- Kids & Family
- Military & War
- Music Video & Concerts
- Musicals & Performing Arts
- Mystery & Suspense
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Special Interests
- Sports
- Television
- Westerns
Movies most talked about in My Favorite Teen Slasher Flicks
The Blair Witch ProjectLION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT; Release date: 1999-10-22; DVD
Best price: $1.85
Price in other shops:
House of Wax (Widescreen Edition)Warner Brothers; Release date: 2005-10-25; DVD
Best price: $3.45
Price in other shops:
Dead Silence (Unrated Widescreen Edition)UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.; Release date: 2007-06-26; DVD
Best price: $4.49
Price in other shops:
Disturbia (Widescreen Edition)PARAMOUNT PICTURES; Release date: 2007-08-07; DVD
Best price: $7.71
Price in other shops:
![When a Stranger Calls [UMD for PSP] Image](/images/When-a-Stranger-Calls-UMD-for-PSP-B000F2C7B8-X.jpg){kind=small}
When a Stranger Calls [UMD for PSP]Sony; Release date: 2006-05-16; DVD
Best price: $6.75
Price in other shops:
I Still Know What You Did Last SummerHEWITT,JENNIFER LOV; Release date: 1999-04-06; Published: 1999-04-06; DVD
Best price: $2.75
Price in other shops:
I Know What You Did Last SummerRelease date: 2000-02-29; DVD
Best price: $4.97
Price in other shops:
SawRelease date: 2005-02-15; DVD
Best price: $2.96
Price in other shops:
The Hitcher (Widescreen Edition)UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.; Release date: 2007-05-01; DVD
Best price: $2.98
Price in other shops:
IdentitySony; Release date: 2003-09-02; DVD
Best price: $3.04
Price in other shops:
Similar DVD Movies
Go (Special Edition)Release date: 1999-08-24; DVD
Best price: $3.61
Price in other shops:
AbandonRelease date: 2003-03-18; DVD
Best price: $2.89
Price in other shops:
Cruel IntentionsRelease date: 1999-08-03; DVD
Best price: $6.42
Price in other shops:
The GiftRelease date: 2001-07-17; DVD
Best price: $5.44
Price in other shops:
Idle HandsRelease date: 1999-08-31; DVD
Best price: $4.70
Price in other shops:
Halloween H20 - Twenty Years Later (Dimension Collector's Series)CURTIS/ARKIN/HARTNETT/WILLIAMS; Release date: 1999-10-19; DVD
Best price: $4.92
Price in other shops:
Urban LegendRelease date: 1999-02-23; DVD
Best price: $1.98
Price in other shops:
Teaching Mrs. TingleRelease date: 1999-12-21; DVD
Best price: $8.06
Price in other shops:
GossipRelease date: 2000-10-31; DVD
Best price: $4.03
Price in other shops:
The FacultyRelease date: 1999-06-22; DVD
Best price: $7.43
Price in other shops: