| Mean Creek | 
| Director: Jacob Aaron Estes
Actors: Rory Culkin, Ryan Kelley, Scott Mechlowicz, Trevor Morgan, Josh Peck
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (88 reviews)
Sales Rank: 10808
Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 90 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 344334
ISBN: 1415706514
UPC: 097363443346
EAN: 9781415706510
ASIN: B0006IUDTY
Release Date: January 25, 2005
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
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Description
When Sam (Culkin) continually gets picked on by the school bully, he and his protective older brother decide to teach the bully a lesson he will never forget. Together, they come up with a plan that involves inviting the bully on a special river trip for his birthday where they will make sure he is humiliated for all to see. Deciding that he no longer wants to go through with the plan, Sam tries to call it off but it's too late and he must live with the resulting consequences.
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Deliverance goes to high school in this grim, stripped-down fable of a prank gone bad. Friends decide to teach a lesson to a teenage bully by inviting him on a canoeing trip where they will humiliate him once and for all. The prank turns seriously sour, and the kids must deal with the consequences. Writer-director Jacob Aaron Estes takes a somber look at these lives, although his low-key approach makes the central tragedy seem melodramatic when it happens. The film isn't quite new enough to be truly revelatory, but Estes neatly avoids a River's Edge rehash by allowing his characters more than dead-eyed anomie. The actors hit their notes with precision, especially Rory Culkin (another of the Culkin family, with Macaulay and Kieran), Ryan Kelley, and Scott Mechlowicz. This is the kind of movie that may be slightly familiar to older audiences, but could easily be a home-video cult item with younger viewers. --Robert Horton
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 Well made (I don't give away the ending) December 3, 2008
I just watched this movie about an hour ago, and it's amazing. It's very well made, and you will recognize the four or five leads from more popular movies like one main kid is the second oldest son in the patriot (he's also in Barney great adventure), another main kid is the lead from Eurotrip (SCOTTY!!!), another main character is the boy from signs (kid with azma) and the main girl is from Dickie Roberts. And so it was cool for me to be able to point them out and figure out where I saw them before as I watched.
This movie focuses on a kid with "asburgers" (which asuming it's spelt right is a severe emotional condition) who (because of his condition) viciously attacks a boy after he touched his camera. However, when the caring older brother sees what has happenned, he gets his older friends together (two of them) and plots with his little brother how to get him back. They're plan was to strip him of his clothes in the middle of a river and make him swim back naked. The thing about this movie that makes it good is that you start having sympathy for the bully, because you start realizing it's not his fault, and the worse part is it's not, it's a condition. This condition makes him very hard to like, and everytime he angers someone you think he deserves it, like at the start you wanted nothing more than for him to be beat up. And it keeps twisting your mind, because some points your find the trick to be cruel while other times you wouldn't be able to stand him yourself. This movie scared me because I know someone who used to go to my school with the same condition, and he just wouldn't stop and I punched him hard, and luckily after that he stoppped because I don't know if I would have stopped. Mean Creek is real, and it's amazing. Well made, good acting, 5 stars.
(An extremely similiar movie if your willing to watch sex scenes, excessive drug use and more severe bullying, is "bully" however that movie isn't as real, or well acted as this one)
 characters come to life.. August 26, 2008
I enjoyed the movie, except the whole time I was watching it I thought, "this would make a great book". This movie would be ripe for a sequel...have the same characters come back and reprise the roles 10 years later and see how their lives have changed and unfolded. A lot of plot threads were left unresolved for some of the characters.
When Plan B comes too late. June 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Five teenagers stare solemnly at a fresh flow of rolling murky water, their minds fixed on a question, "How exactly did we get here?" Their decision to exact mild revenge on the town bully has reaped devastating consequences, and yet, even darker events lie ahead for all of them.
Mean Creek is a depiction of what happens when the bottom falls out, as our carefully calculated plans take on a life of their own, leaving us as mere spectators while the actions around us take the wheel and drive drunken and headlong into the realm of unseen, maddening circumstances.
An extremely dark film and you should be warned. This type of cinema is not for everyone. Even still, if you are an indy-hound, Mean Creek will likely serve as an ample offering to your unique taste. I enjoyed the premise, but some of the characters were a bit contrived. Overall, however, Mean Creek is solid entertainment and will keep you involved.
 Great Movie, Bad Unbox... June 26, 2008
The movie was great more than i expected from an indie film, however, the unbox player and downloader gave me loads of problems and i had to try it on multiple computers before i could get the movie to download.
Amazing, brilliant and shocking June 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Mean Creek" is one of those movies that you draws you in little by little and leaves a lasting impression. The movie is about moral choices, about peer pressure and making mistakes.
A group of teenagers invite a kid for a boat ride. Unbeknownst to him, they have actually made a plan to teach him a lesson for beating up Sam, the brother of one of the older guys. But, as the day progresses they decide to cancel the plan, they don't want to do it anymore. SPOILER. When something goes horribly wrong, the teenagers must deal with the realization of what they have done, whether to assume responsibility or succumb to peer pressure and the easy way out. END SPOILER.
This is a really great movie with amazing performances by such a young cast.
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