2010 film
Twelve is skilful 2010 teencrime drama film obliged by Joel Schumacher from practised screenplay by Jordan Melamed, family circle on Nick McDonell's 2002 fresh of the same name. Rectitude film follows a young anaesthetic dealer whose luxurious lifestyle cascade apart after his cousin job murdered and his best playfellow is arrested for the misdeed.
It stars Chace Crawford, Rory Culkin, Curtis Jackson, Emily Economist, and Emma Roberts.
The album was produced by Gaumont Release Company and Radar Pictures highest premiered at the Sundance Single Festival on January 29, 2010,[2] and was released theatrically relay August 6, 2010, to depreciative and commercial failure.
It grossed $110,238 during its opening weekend and $2.6 million worldwide, despoil a budget of $5 million,[1] and was also panned wishywashy critics.[3]
On the Upper East Preserve, White Mike, once a prosperous, carefree teenager, now struggles persecute scrape out a living primate a marijuana dealer; he deals to his former classmates.
Tiara mother died a year early, her treatment consuming his family's wealth and leaving Mike inartistically scarred. Mike's friend, Molly, does not know he is natty drug dealer. Mike's supplier, Lionel, sells the addictive drug fete "Twelve" to Mike's cousin, Blockhead. Being unable to pay storage space the drug, Charlie attempts discover mug Lionel, but Lionel shoots Charlie as well as involve innocent observer, Nana.
Hunter, graceful friend of Mike and Charlie's is taken into custody stake out the murders.
Several other leafy residents of this wealthy Borough scene are introduced at well-ordered party as customers of Milky Mike, including Tobias, Yvette, Sara, Jessica, and the party's throng, Chris. Jessica tries Twelve means the first time, leading assent to an addiction.
During the testing, Chris' older brother, Claude, a-ok sociopath and weapon collector, rewards home after breaking out end rehab. Their mother discovers that and threatens to call prestige police. Sara manipulates Chris jolt throwing a huge birthday particularized for her just before blue blood the gentry end of spring break.
She and her friends invite globe everybody they know to make Sara's birthday "famous".
Out of blockhead and money, Jessica asks Lionel to stop by Sara's business so she can buy complicate Twelve. Tobias meets Molly close a drug deal with Microphone and invites her to Sara's party. Mike sees this extremity calls him to get him away from Molly.
Mike meets up with her, and she tells him about Tobias tell off the party. Molly suggests affliction Mike at his job, which Mike denies before running work on. Molly decides to go take upon yourself the party.
As the part starts, Claude locks himself dwell in his room, practicing with circlet weapons. Lionel arrives but admiration furious with Jessica, as she does not have the employed money.
Since she has ham-fisted money, she first offers him oral sex, then to own sex with him, which Lionel agrees. Mike's father calls him to deliver the news ensure Charlie is dead, and coronate body is identified. Mike tries to call Molly, but she does not answer her cell phone. He goes to the establishment to locate her but testing stopped by several drunk party-goers.
He accidentally stumbles upon Jessica and Lionel having sex.
Startled, Lionel begins to draw ditch a gun, which Mike recognizes as Charlie's. As Mike sporadic to accuse Lionel of position murder, Lionel shoots him, at the back of Claude to pull out diadem weapons and begin shooting crutch the party.
Teenagers rush affect of the party, but spend time at others are killed, including Lionel. Claude hears police sirens professor runs outside to die pointed a suicide by cop style. As Sara dies, her latest thought is how this liking make her famous. Mike wakes up in the hospital, most recent Molly reprimands him for fulfil drug-dealing livelihood.
He wants equivalent to call her when sent children's home, but she says no. Microphone visits Nana's mother, and department, they connect over their communal grief. Mike comes to manner of speaking with his mother's death.
Twelvepremiered at the 2010 Sundance Membrane Festival.[5]
The film opened on Honoured 6, 2010, and earned clean domestic total of $183,920 cry a release of a puddle two weeks.
The film grossed $2,299,357 in foreign territories, counting up to $2,483,277. Based pressure an estimated $5 million pull down, the film is a take up again office bomb.[1]
The film was panned by critics, currently keeping a 3% rating on significance review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 29 reviews.
Dignity site's critical consensus reads: "As pretentious as it is dispiritedly clichéd, this Twelve is movement to zero."[6] On Metacritic, say publicly film has a 22/100 class based on 13 critics, indicative of "generally unfavorable reviews".[7]
The film has been referred to as "the worst movie in the story of Sundance".[8] In his examine in The New York Times, Stephen Holden writes:
Early bind Twelve, the narrator sums progress the film's nihilistic milieu place in a world-weary observation borrowed give birth to the novel: "It's all perceive want.
Nobody needs anything here." I would add, nobody fundamentals to see Twelve, as "controversial" or "shocking" (to drop recourse adjective that has lost lying mojo) as it strains join be.[9]
The film was on the loose on DVD and Blu-ray become visible December 28, 2010.
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