Country: USA
Year: 2003
Duration: 87'
Sam, an adolescent who is tired of the bullying and
humiliations inflicted upon him by George, a fat rich boy, decides to
ask his older brother Rocky to help him get even. On Sam's birthday,
George is invited out on a boat trip along with Rocky, Clyde, Marty and
Millie, who is Sam's best friend. But the group soon loses control of
the situation. When Sam sees how much fun George is having, he decides
to give up on getting revenge, but the chain of events has begun and
nobody can foresee what will happen.
"I wanted to make a really simple morality tale, but it got less and
less simple as I wrote it. I was inspired by this whole genre of films
that I grew up on, which is just this world [in which] teenagers are
faced with a profound moral crisis. Movies that I looked back on before
I started writing it were The Outsiders, River's Edge, Over the Edge,
Bad Boys, with Sean Penn… This is what I did, a sort of an update of
that genre." (J. A. Estes)
Biography
film director
Jacob Aaron Estes
Jacob Aaron Estes (1973) began writing films as a student at the University of California at Santa Cruz and in 1997 he directed his first short film, Positive. He graduated from the American Film Institute, was twice selected by the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference and directed the short film Summoning (2001). Mean Creek, his first full-length film, was selected for the Sundance Film Festival and Cannes and won the Nicholl Fellowship for its Screenplay.
FILMOGRAFIA
Positive (cm, 1997), Summoning (2001), Mean Creek (2003).