Public Access

Public Access
by Bryan Singer

Public Access
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Actor: Burt Williams, Jennifer McManus, John Renshaw, Leigh Hunt, Ron Marquette
Director: Bryan Singer
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 4.0
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-08-31
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Image Entertainment

Movie Reviews of Public Access

Movie Review: Needs better treatment
Summary: 2 Stars

The film deserves a better DVD package; this one offers a somewhat dark transfer and no extras at all and comes at a high price for such a no frills disc.

Summary of Public Access

The director of "The Usual Suspects" Bryan Singer's debut film. To all outward appearances, Brewster is an idyllic little town, until a mysterious, clean cut stranger named Pritcher arrives. Through a local public access program, he poses the question, "What's wrong with Brewster?" And as Pritcher probes callers, his question uncovers long simmering skeletons in the town closet which eventually explode into violence and tragedy.
"What's wrong with Brewster?" asks the smiling devil-behind-blue-eyes Whiley Pritcher (Ron Marquette), a well-mannered, clean-cut drifter who has his own public access talk show. Brewster is a rural community with a secret under its bland surface of rural small town normalcy (a less insidious but more enigmatic reflection of Blue Velvet), and Whiley becomes an instant celebrity as he stirs it up with gossip and name-calling. But that's not his goal--or at least it doesn't appear to be. But then Whiley is an enigma in every sense of the word, a walking stream of aphorisms masking something creepy under his false front. The first film by the director Brian Singer and screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie shared the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance but received little attention until their second collaboration, The Usual Suspects, became a smash a few years later. While it's not as accomplished or clever as that hit, it shares the mysterious sense of purpose and eerie undercurrent of unease. Ron Marquette plays Whiley with pinched smugness, empty smiles, and calculated utterances, and Singer and McQuarrie leave his motivations and identity a complete mystery. That mystery makes Public Access both maddening and memorable. --Sean Axmaker

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