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One night, Jack (Henry Thomas) drives down a deserted highway, pretty
drunk, when, at 11:14, right out of the blue, he runs over a man. He only
just manages to hide the corpse before Norma (Barbara Hershey) drives by,
thinks he has hit a deer and offers to call the police. Alone again, Jack
has to act fast, and thus he hides the corpse in his trunk, just before
the police arrives. At first, officer Hannagan (Clark Gregg) thinks Jack's
only a drunk driver, until he realizes traces of blood, leading to Jack's
trunk, and he thinks Jack has taken the deer in - but then he finds a
human body ... Immediately he wants to take him in, but since his car
already has two other occupants (Hilary Swank, Shawn Hatosy) and the cop
gets into a fight withthem, that gives Jack just enough time to flee ...
to the local graveyard, where his escape is suddenly stopped cold when he
trips over a bowling ball ...
A few minutes before, in town: 3 kids - Tim (Stark Sands), Mark (Colin
Hanks) and Eddie (Ben Foster) - cruise the streets with nothing but
nonsense on their minds, like throwing stuff like burning books out of
their car at other cars and stuff. Then Eddie even pisses out of the
driving car. Mark, the driver, gets so distracted by this that he doesn't
notice a girl crossing the street, and he runs over her - at exactly
11:14. Now that alone would be bad enough, but then the girl's boyfriend
(Shawn Hatosy) pulls a gun and starts shooting at them ... and of course
they flee. Now that would be bad enough, but then it turns out that at the
impact, somehow Eddie's Penis was cut off (he was peeing out of the
carwindow at the time, remember). Tim decides to go back and look for the
penis, to find out the shootist is already gone but an ambulance is there
... and they have secured the penis. Now Tim tries to break into the
ambulance and retrieve the penis, but the paramedics (Jason Segel, Rick
Gomez) catch him and immediately presume that he has something to do with
the hit-and-run accident (and they ae right too), but when Frank (Patrick
Swayze), a distraught father looking for his daughter, pops up, the
paramedics are distracted long enough for Tim to make a getaway, get to
his firends and off they are on their way to the hospital ...
A few minutes before: Frank's daughter Cheri (Rachael Leigh Cook) has
just left the house and obviously was a bit off the hook ... and when
Frank walks his dog, he finds out why: on the graveyard, he finds Cheri's
boyfriend Aaron (Blake Heron), his head completely smashed in. And since
Frank is a good daddy and doesn't want his daughter to get into trouble,
he puts the dead Aaron into the trunk of Aaron's own car, drives to the
next bridge over the highway and throws the body down ... as it turns out,
exactly at 11:14 and exactly onto the hood of Jack's car. Shocked about
what he did, Frank nevertheless has the good sense to get away from the
scene of crime, and on the pavement, he even finds a burning book (thrown
out by the 3 youngsters) he can use to burn the last piece of evidence
about the whole affair he has still on him ... just before his wife Norma
passes by and drives him home.
Once again, a few minutes before. At the local drugstore, Duffy (Shawn
Hatosy) tries to persuade his friend Buzzy (Hilary Swank), the only
employee in the shop, to let him rob the place, since he needs the money
for the abortion of his girlfriend - Cheri. Buzzy refuses, and isn't even
impressed by the gun he has brought. then Cheri comes by, and while she
and Duffy have some privacy in a back room, Buzzy plays around with the
gun ... until a shot goes off - which seems to change everything, because
now she has to let Duffy rob her so she won't be fired for firing a gun in
the store ... and after Cheri's gone she even insists that Duffy gives her
a proper fleshwound for realism ... then though she also insists that he
helps her call 911. In the end, Duffy gets away just before the police
arrives. Somewhere on the street, he finds Cheri again, and wants to hand
her the money, but when she crosses the street, at exactly 11:14, she is
hit by the car by our trio of youngsters. Finding her dead, Duffy
immediately pulls the gun and shoots at the youngsters, who take off in a
hurry. A short time later the ambulance arrives, and officer Hannagan, who
takes him in for robbing the drugstore, after he has already taken in
Buzzy. Just one thing startles everyone ... why is there a penis lieing
around ?
A few minutes before again: On the phone, Cheri tells her friend that
she is going to have an abortion, but she lets both her boyfriends, Aaron
and Duffy, pay in full for it, out of pure selfishness. Then Aaron stops
by, to bring her the money, and they go to the gravyard to have sex, but
somehow during the act, the head of a statue on a gravestone comes down
and smashes Aaron's head. Cheri is shocked, naturally, but not quite as
shocked as she's sopposed to be. Soon enough, she thinks as rational as
could be again, phones her friend and tells her that Duffy has found out
about Aaron and she is afraid that he might do something stupid. Then she
visits Duffy in the drugstore, to steal his bowling ball. When she drives
off again, she sees Duffy shooting Buzzy and calls the police ... back on
the graveyard, she finds Aaron's body already gone, and drops the bowling
ball in shock. Then her secret boyfriend calls, of all people Jack, whom
she wants to run away with (thus she needed the abortion money).
And while she is still on the phone with him, she sees Duffy stopping at
the other side of the street, witht he money ... and when she crosses -
it's exactly 11:14.
A pretty clever little thriller, intelligently weaving 5 more or less
independent plots told back-to-back into one, into one story telling of a
fate that is bigger than each of the film's protagonists. But what
actually makes this film work is not the fact that the subplots are so
greatly connected but simply the fact that the whole thing never forgets
to entertain and does tell a complete story in each of its subplots even
before tieing them up.
That said, the film is not completely free of flaws, especially
concerning the run-of-the-mill performances of many of its uncharismatic
actors (notable exceptions are Patrick Swayze, Hilary Swank and to a point
Rachael Leigh Cook) and a direction that at points really lacks
inventiveness and excitement - but with 11:14, these are minor
flaws and should not distract from the overall impact of the movie.
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