Spetters (Widescreen Edition)
by Paul Verhoeven
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Actor: Hans van Tongeren, Maarten Spanjer, Marianne Boyer, Ren?e Soutendijk, Toon AgterbergDirector: Paul Verhoeven
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Dutch (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 123 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-11-05
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Spetters (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: theres just something about it...
Summary: 4 Stars
before directing the ultaviolent american sci fi films hes best known for dutch director paul verhoevan was directing much more personal (art?) films like spetters. i'm embarrased to say this is the only dutch film from verhoevan i've seen, being more used to his american films like robocop and total recall wich is one of my personal favorites. after being pretty happy with spetters i'll probably try to look up some of his other early films. spetters is the story of 3 motocross buddys who fall under the spell of a pretty food vender who wants more in life. she sees these boys who are allready interested in her as a way out of her boring, pointless life. through the film each of the 3 boys take a try at her. in the end one boy seems to be there to stay and maybe they'll live hapilly ever after but i really felt like the girl didnt love any of them. the other 2 boys suffer darker fates. one is a closet homosexual whose father is a stern christian and the other ends up in a wheelchair after a motocross accident and commits suicide after realizing he'll never walk or have sex again. at least the homosexual boy makes it out of his fathers opressive grasp and seems to find happiness after taking a beating after confessing to his father his feelings. the whole thing ends on an upbeat note even though the second half of the movie is a a bit grim and depressing. spetters has a reputation of being explicitly sexual and violent. while the sex scenes are a bit graphic, there nothing to get to flustered about and the only scene that could be considered violent is the brutal rape of the homosexual boy by a gang of gay thugs. that scene was very graphic and should not be seen by the easily offended or weak hearted. overall i was happy with spetters. its a movie that makes you fell kind of good despite the depressing second half. my only complaint was i thought the movie was alittle slow but that may be because i'm used to verhoevans action films. still a great film that really touched me in a way few films can.
Summary of Spetters (Widescreen Edition)
From notorious filmmaker Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct, Showgirls) and writer GerardSoeteman comes this director's cut of an explosive, fast-paced (Boxoffice) coming-of-age drama. Raw, intense and unabashedly sexual, Spetters is a wild ride that will knock the unsuspecting for a loop (The Hollywood Reporter). Rien, Eef and Hans are three young working-class guys stuck in an industrial town on the outskirts of Rotterdam. They couldn't be more different except for one thing: their shared passion for motorcycle racing, which each sees as his ticket to a better life. But a deeper passion will soon rule each of their lives, when a sexy, ambitiousblonde comes between them and provokes unforeseen events that will rock their worlds.Paul Verhoeven's story of three dirt bike buddies with motocross dreams in a small Netherlands town is just the kind of working-class soap opera one would expect from the director of Basic Instinct and Showgirls. Conniving fox Ren?e Soutendijk (The Fourth Man) seduces all three boys in hopes of landing a ride out of her miserable existence selling fried snacks from a gypsy van. At least she's honest about her schemes of escape, and in this predatory world that makes her a prize. Verhoeven's tone is uneven as his melodrama of dirt track glory, casual sex, and small town restlessness bounces into Fassbinder territory with scenes of gay bashing, gang rape, and suicidal despair. Only Verhoeven could pull a happy ending from all of that. Rutger Hauer and Jeroen Krabb? make appearances as the dirt bike champion and a self-promoting sportscaster. --Sean Axmaker
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