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Sins of Our Youth
USA 2014
produced by Michael Huffington, Anthony Bretti (executive) for Huffington Pictures
directed by Gary Entin
starring Lucas Till, Joel Courtney, Mitchel Musso, Bridger Zadina, Ally Sheedy, Dani Knights, Grant Harvey, Matt Hawk, Leon Thomas III, Kherington Payne, Samantha Droke, Annamarie Kenoyer, George Akram, Wesley Eure, Alicia Jacobs, Jane Jenkins, Terrell Lee, Alex MacDonald, Jerick Meagher, Lea Moreno, Byron Smith, Zacharias Tapp II, Marcus Weiss, Ray Quartermus, Danny Latham, Cesar Lazcano, Rodney Roldan, Kerry Fezza, Corinna Harney, Vanessa Waters
written by Edmund Entin, music by Lior Rosner
review by Mike Haberfelner
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It was really just a alcohol- and drug-induced idea for high schoolers
Tyler (Lucas Till), his brother David (Joel Courtney), and their friends
Scott (Michtel Musso) and Carlo (Bridger Zadina) to take down part of the
Christmas decoration and shoot it to pieces with the guns Tyler and
David's dad keeps safely locked away. And it was just bad luck little
Bradley (Matt Hawk) stopped by to drop off the phone one of them has lost
at the mall when they started shooting, and instead of trying to alert
them he's here, he instinctively dives for cover behind the decoration ...
and is shot to pieces as well in the process. The foursome only realize
that they have actually accidently hit a human target as well only well
after the fact ... but now they're stuck with a corpse they're responsible
for but don't want to take the blame for, for as they're mere high
schoolers, they have a mere vague conception what might happen to them,
but it's totally aweful - so they make up a plan how to get out of this:
They gonna shoot it out, and the last man standing will have a confession
on a flash drive from all the other three that they did kill Bradley
without the survivor's help - stupid plan of course, but the best they can
come up with in their collective panic. However, after a good night's
sleep, Tyler and David have second thoughts and want to call the thing off
... but by now Scott and Carlo thing they want to lure them into a trap
and thus decide to go on the offensive - and at the party of Tyler's
girlfriend (Dani Knights), everything comes to a head ... Former teen
star Ally Shedy plays Carlo's white trash mum. Sins of Our
Youth first and foremost does a great job to take one back to one's
high school days when everything was way more black and white, one had no
idea about the consequences of one's deeds, one made one stupid mistake
after another (though hopefully not on the scale as in the movie), one
reverted to alcohol and weed to gloss over everythign without any real way
to control the effects, and one's indecisiveness was one's trait - now I
wager to say almost everybody has gone through that, and the movie's
narrative is just so great in bringing that phase of one's life back and
having one feel with the characters rather than condemning their (obvious)
blunder. Now that's of course augmented by a character-centered direction
that only gives in to spectacle in the right places, and a very competent
key cast who don't ham it up - and the result's just a pretty good movie!
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