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Spun [DVD] [2003]
enlarge	Director: Jonas Åkerlund Actors: Jason Schwartzman, John Leguizamo, Patrick Fugit, Brittany Murphy, Mena Suvari Studio: Pathe Distribution Category: DVD List Price: ~~£19.99~~ Buy New: £3.65 as of 23/11/2009 21:45 GMT details You Save: £16.34 (82%) New (11) Used (4) from £3.64 Seller: twentyfiveorless Rating: 9 reviews Sales Rank: 13761 Format: PAL, Widescreen Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over Region: 2 Discs: 1 Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 98 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5060002831854 ASIN: B0001E5SNE Release Date: April 5, 2004 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review ISpun/I is an unclassifiable ensemble piece, intentionally bleached of soulfulness and high on visual invention and comic depravity. Set in northern Los Angeles, where meth freaks lurch from one motel room to another in search of companionship and a score, the film stars Jason Schwartzman as Ross, whose life is rapidly disintegrating. Fielding phone messages from his mother and trying in vain to reach an old girlfriend, Ross spends most of his time on a feverish circuit with the half-mad Cookie (Mena Suvari) and Nikki (Brittany Murphy), the dangerously paranoid Spider Mike (John Leguizamo), and a macho drugmaker called the Cook (Mickey Rourke). Director Jonas Akerlund's story is non-existent, but then again ISpun/I is driven by the blurry, hellish energy of a life lived on speed. An obvious influence is Darren Aronofsky's IRequiem for a Dream/I, but Akerlund is interested in nightmarish set pieces than tiny horrors of misfired nerve endings and ravaged time. --ITom Keogh/I

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 9 1 2 Next » Future Cult Classic February 27, 2004 14 out of 17 found this review helpful Back in Januray 2002, i found myself in Arizona right at the time that years Sundance Festival was on. With only the Grand Caynon and a few hundred miles between me and Park City, Utah, I flagged down the next passing Greyhound, and headed north.......and i'm i glad i made the effort!brFrom the pages of a packed listings guide jumped the little gem that is Spun. With a cast as good as any big budget tosh, a soundtrack penned by the god like Billy Corgan, Spun is the story of a gang of Meth addicted drop-out's. Written by a reformed addicted while in jail, and directed by a a top class video auetor, each scene is both darkly comic and ultimatly saddening. Micky Rourke's comeback preformance is stunning to say the least. With the Meth problem desolving todays american youth, this mesmorising debut charts it's origen and growth, from the towns and Cities of the "beautiful" Pacific Northwest. Train spotting for the USA checmical generation!!!!! February 20, 2004 6 out of 13 found this review helpful REVIEW: SPUN.pA twisted #8220;Train spotting#8221; adventure for the American drug generation.pI say #8220;Trains-potting#8221; only as a comparison, this has nothing to do with heroin and the slow sluggish trip which it brings on, this is about speed and moving forward............and that#8217;s what this film is all about meth-amphetamine to be exact, the fave of the kids in America at the moment.pThe film revolves around a set of characters in any said #8220;small town#8221; of America so called #8220;trailer trash#8221; who mostly are sucked in, and dependant on the said same drug.pThe cast is amazing although unsung as not a big thing was made of the film on its original first release, for starters to name but a few Mena Suvari (as a drug dealers bad toothed heroin- sheek girlfriend, wired and craving attention) also Brittany Murphy just fresh from the Eminem#8217;s film (8-Mile as if you didn#8217;t know) plays the upset girl-friend of the cook (the man who makes the drugs) played by a very old looking but still very cool Mickey Rourke ( famous for such a film as the still cool br#8220; Rumble Fish#8221; gone but not forgotten). pThe main character is played by a guy called Ross (acted by Jason Schwartzman from the cult film #8220;Slackers#8221;) he by default gets a job by (The Cook - Mickey Rourke) as a driver, and as such has to do whatever is needed to fund and supply his addiction, and all the people he knows. Mickey Rourke plays a kingpin of the speed scene who has for all the years of his life done what he has done best to make the fastest drugs around.pThe plot is sketchy and as can be expected with a film that deals with addiction to this drug, it moves fast, to some extent there is a-lot of unnecessary niceness to find a happy medium to wind up the film. To me this spoilt it, they tried to make it happier than it was when in the truth drug addiction, is never nice just as means to an end which is never a nice one, just a way to end a story, a good film but a bad / easy ending.pReviewer: Lee Niblock Seriously overlooked and underrated December 5, 2005 AJT (UK) 4 out of 11 found this review helpful Anyone giving this less than 4 stars simply didn't understand it. Why? Well, I can only assume they were't urbane/cultured enough to get into it.pThis movie is great, it's very grey in the sense that it is serious and funny at the same time. Well, perhaps not at the same time but it has serious moments and also funny moments. There's a hillarious 'Cops' spoof and also a spoof of 80s cop shows with the two 80s-esque cops. There is yet more of a theme in the Cook (brilliantly played by Mickey Rourke - Sin City, Angel Heart, etc), a big man kidding himself he's straight with a fixation with women while watching and imitating WWF wrestling.pSpun is the story (basically, and this is what is often overlooked) of a group of people brought together by their drug addictions who together realise their lives are a mess and they all go their seperate ways to try and sort their lives out.. but end up making everything worse and destroying what they had which they never even noticed they had.pThe soundtrack is fantastic and scenes are coloured by moods created musically. I especially loved the country-blues cover of Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast'.pThe editing of this film is CRAZY to suit the crazy drug-induced experience of it all.pThis flick is sheer class. Although not everyone can understand it, make sure you DON'T OVERLOOK IT! "Spun" is rapidly entertaining June 30, 2007 Jenny J.J.I. (That Lives in Northern Nevada) 4 out of 5 found this review helpful Wow, I just viewed "Spun" the other night and I thought this movie was outrageous. This is sort of a guilt-pleasure movie but you want to take shower afterwards. br / br /"Spun" has an impressive cast of recognized actors. The film is, essentially, about a few days in the lives of a group of drug addicts. There is The Cook (Mickey Rourke, he truly makes this story worth watching), who makes the drug (speed) and sells it to Spider Mike (John Leguizamo), a dealer with a junkie girlfriend, Cookie (Mena Suvari, looking infinitely less attractive than she did in "American Beauty"). One of his clients is Ross (Jason Schwartzman), who does a lot of favours for The Cook and his girlfriend, Nikki (Brittany Murphy). br / br /I was surprised at how funny the film was at times. It doesn't drown us in anti-drug messages, nor does it become one of those, equally tedious, drug films where you feel like the sober driver at a drunken party. The humour is dark, certainly, but funny nevertheless. A lot of it comes from a subplot about Frisbee, Patrick Fugit, who is caught by a couple of TV policemen (Peter Stormare and Alexis Arquette) and is told he will be let off if he helps them get Spider-Mike. I will only say of the resulting sequence that he does it with all the subtlety of an undercover policeman with his badge stuck to his forehead. br / br /This is a film with a lot of energy, that seems, like its characters, not entirely sure where it is going, but determined to get there, and quickly. Although I am sure it is boring to be surrounded by people on speed when you are sober, this film almost makes you feel like you are on speed too. The director, Jonas Åkerlund, has directed music videos in the past, and it shows in his impatient filming style, as he plays around with animation, speeded-up camerawork and such like. br / br /I'm not recommending the film for its style though, although I am sure it is the best way this material could get to the screen. I am recommending it because I liked the main characters, which I think will stick in my head for much longer than the animated sex scenes or the split screens. I can imagine an entire film about The Cook and Nikki, or Spider Mike and Cookie, or even just Ross, who absentmindedly keeps leaving a girl handcuffed to his bed for hours/days. What makes "Spun" better than those hypothetical films is that it puts the characters into their own little community, and we feel as if we are watching their everyday, speeded up, sleepless lives. Simply amazing. br / Very very spun April 19, 2004 - alikat - (Brighton, UK) 6 out of 9 found this review helpful I stumbled upon this the other day, having read no reviews and not really having much of an idea of what it was about I slapped it into the DVD player. What we have is a dark gritty comedy about a bunch of dropout meth-heads. Whilst the subject matter is ultimately depressing and really shows that the use of drugs such as methamphetamine particularly, lead to a downhill spiral, the film mixes this with a comedy gloss. It all actually works very well, the script is excellent and the use of sound especially and some of the visuals really make this an experience from start to finish, you feel as if you're on the rollercoaster of up and down with the characters. All the acting is tight with a fine cast, Mickey Rouke is superb as "the cook" and what a film to make a comeback. All in all, definitely different (in a good way), defiantly worth a viewing and definitely one that will become an underground classic. Showing reviews 1-5 of 9 1 2 Next »

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