Manic (2001)
by Jordan Melamed
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Actor: Adrienne Rollo, Blayne Weaver, Don Cheadle, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Maggie BairdDirector: Jordan Melamed
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-01-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Manic (2001)
Movie Review: Gordon-Levitt and Cheadle tag-team, but still can't save this.
Summary: 2 Stars
Manic (Jordan Melamed, 2001)
As fond as I am of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, he couldn't save Jordan Melamed's first (and to date only) feature, Manic. I'm not sure anyone could have, save an editor with a much lighter touch than the one recruited to cut this film.
The story centers on Lyle (Gordon-Levitt), a teen who gets sent to a hospital's psycho ward after a violent episode during which he severely beat a fellow teen with a baseball bat. David Monroe (Don Cheadle), the doctor overseeing the ward, has a lot of patients with issues to work with, so once Lyle gets to the ward, the film shifts into ensemble mode. There's Chad (Michael Bacall, who also co-wrote the screenplay), an affable agoraphobic with whom Lyle quickly bonds; Kenny (Cody Lightning), Lyle's roommate, who's in for molestation; Sara (Sara Rivas), the goth with anger issues; Tracy (Zoeey Deschanel), the introvert working on her self-esteem; etc.
I'm pretty sure you can see the problem already-- clich? abounds in this film. But that might be forgivable (certainly, where this sort of thing is concerned, it's miles better than, say, Girl, Interrupted) if the movie actually told a coherent story. This one tries to, but fails so miserably I can only place the blame on an editor who was told, "this movie must be x number of minutes long. Make sure it gets there." There's a difference between the artistic creation of impressionism in film and just hacking out large pieces of character development, setting, scene, and anything not relating to plot (especially when the plot is so necessarily thin). As I said before, though, I'm just assuming; if the script was actually written this way, then the blame must be placed squarely on Bacall and co-writer Blayne Weaver, who have a lot to learn about that wonderful goblin known as continuity.
There are the bones of an excellent film here, but it never boils enough to really congeal into a soup. **
Summary of Manic (2001)
Don Cheadle (Traffic) is simply mesmerizing (Entertainment Today) in this piercing intimate and edgy ( Sixty Second Preview ) drama about troubled teens hovering on the edge of sanity. Featuring an exceptional young cast including Joseph Gordon-Levitt ( 3rd Rock From the Sun ) and Zooey Deschanel (All the Real Girls) Manic is a remarkable gem of a film (London Film Festival). At first glance 17-year-old Lyle Jensen (Gordon-Levitt) seems eerily quiet and withdrawn. But he has a problem with anger and this time his explosive rage has landed him in the juvenile ward of a mental institution under the watchful eye of therapist David Monroe (Cheadle). Can Dr. Monroe get Lyle and the other kids to open up confront their demons and reclaim their lives?Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 027616901682 Manufacturer No: 1005938Drama DVD Video
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