| Havoc (Unrated Version) | 
| Director: Barbara Kopple
Actors: Anne Hathaway, Bijou Phillips, Shiri Appleby, Michael Biehn, Joseph Gordon-levitt
Studio: New Line Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (97 reviews)
Sales Rank: 6860
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 85 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: TRNDN8432D
ISBN: 0780652819
UPC: 794043843228
EAN: 9780780652811
ASIN: B000BBOUUE
Release Date: November 29, 2005
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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Description
A group of wealthy Los Angeles teenagers try to become part of the "gangsta" lifestyle but soon run into trouble when they come face to face with a real gang of Latino drug dealers.
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After making her name in The Princess Diaries, Anne Hathaway takes a radical detour with this edgy independent drama. As Allie, a wealthy gangsta wannabe, she makes no excuses for her delinquent behavior: "We're just teenagers and we're bored." When her Pacific Palisades posse, including pal Emily (Bully's Bijou Phillips), starts hanging out with a Latino gang (including Six Feet Under's Freddy Rodriguez), they learn what thug life is really about. Hathaway couldn't be more game: She swears, she fights--she disrobes (several times). Written and directed by Oscar winners Stephen Gaghan (Traffic) and Barbara Kopple (American Dream), Havoc plays like a B movie, in the vein of the superior crazy/beautiful, and was released straight to video. For Hathaway fans, it's a chance to see this young talent in a very different light, but for Gaghan and Kopple followers, this lurid morality tale is sure to come as a letdown. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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 What In The World November 15, 2008
I Am A Big Fan Of Anne. I Have Seen All Of Her Movies. This Film Was Bad. A Bunch Of Rich White Teens Acting Like There A Gangster Rapper Living In The Hood Come On. There Are People Of All Types That Live In Those Places For Real And Not Faking It Like In The Movie. I Know Anne Wanted To Do Something Other Then Disney Kid Films. Her Role Was Crappy. She Can Do Better Then That. I Mean This Film Was Like At Wedding Where They Play A Rap Tune And The old White Lady's Try To Act Like It(Save It For "Scary Movie"). That's Not Funny Its Sad. I Like Rap And I Have Nothing Against It. But The monkey See Monkey Do Thing Good God. If Anne Or Her Friends Read this. Don't Take It The Wrong Way. Your A Great Actress And Any Role You Play Will Be Great. Just Please Don't Use Better Judgment Next Time. On The Plus Side You Do Have A Great Voice You Should Do Recorded An Album.
Flimsy attempt to showcase rich townie wannabes September 9, 2008
One day, probably through some seriously independent medium, someone's actually going to muster up the courage to properly showcase the wretched, filthy cancer that is the suburban, drug addicted, spoiled, insipid, wannabe gangster. UNFLINCHINGLY. It may take a while, but it will happen. This film is the quasi-portrait. Sugarcoated by today's pc culture because most cowards will still attempt to veil the fact that most inner-city drug sales come from suburbans. Most of the pan-handling/thieving drug addicted annoyances and prostitutes filthying up urban streets are actually out of control former suburban transplants who had to be hardcore and hang out in the city and buy and consume drugs. The people mildly and unrealistically portrayed in this film are the germ that starts this disease.
Bored suburban transplants aren't entirely the cause of the decline of urban living, but a lot of the horror and "scum" from the "CITY" that rich suburban parents warn their children about, and teach them to feel superior to are actually from their magical suburbs. This film could've told this story, but didn't.
I'm caucasian and lived in an urban setting my entire life and have witnessed this issue for way too long.
In summation, someone will tell this story in a raw and sincere fashion one day. This film does not.
Anne please don't do this again. July 30, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Why? because your image is beautiful, classy, pure, important. You do not need to get involved with crap like this because you are much better than that. I love you but don't turn me off like this again. Do the hit woman or the fairy tales or romance just anything but the ghetto stuff.
 Havoc-Anne Hathaway July 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Seems a bit out of character for Ms Hathaway, but shows her versatility as an actress, not to mention shes HOT. Looking forword to more of her in some more dramatic parts. Shes totally cool . .
 Anne Hathaway... as a wigger? July 1, 2008
I must admit, that alone drew me to Havoc, a tale about a young wigger girl named Allison who denies her rich, suburbian L.A. settings for the hard and gritty "thug" life of East L.A. Honestly, I didn't even know Hathaway would be topless in it (three times, as a matter of fact.) And honestly, I really could care less about that as she's not exactly Jessica Alba material, anyways. Moving on.
Hathaway, the tall, Owl-looking darling girl we know from about a dozen or so Princess roles plays wigger Alli(son), who hangs out with her equally phony friends and embrace the hardcore hip hop "thug" lifestyle because, as she put it, "we're teenagers and we're BORED." However, as a documentary-filming fellow high school student films the Life and Times of Whiteys Being Black (fake title), we get a little exposure to the "real" Allison, a straight-A student facing an identity crisis and wanting to live a "real, less-than-privledged" life. The same goes for her sister-like best friend Emily, played by Bijou Phillips. And just to note, considering that it's Anne Hathaway we're dealing with, Allison comes off as not-that-bad for a gangsta wanna-be. She can throw down in a fight, knows all the lyrics to Tupac's "How Do U Want It?", and all things considered, is pretty sexy as a white girl gangsta wannabe. At least more so than the real little teenage white girls trying to do the same thing and failing miserably.
One night, Alli and her poser boyfriends decide to ditch their suburbian hood and head straight out to the "real hood," East L.A. After Alli's boyfriend gets a cold, hard dose of reality via a gun barrel, Alli decides to ditch her loser wanna-be hard boyfriend for a real thug, Hector, played by Freddy Rodriguez. Hector, enticed by a tall, rich, white girl with a crush on him, decides to amuse Alli and Emily in his world that he lives in. He deals drugs and carries a strap, but that's the life he was given and it's not some joke meant for girls like Alli to exploit. But nonetheless, after Alli gets arrested with Hector and enjoys the "thrill" of being locked up, she and Emily become so engaged by the "thug" mentality that they decide they wanna join the 16th Street Gang.
And here's the part when Hathaway goes topless (again). In order for any females to join (well, I'm guessing attractive females), they have to roll a die. Whichever number between one and six they get is how many guys they have to participate in a gang bang. Alli is up for it, as she gets a one, and Emily (after drinking WAY too much) gets a three. Somewhere between getting naked and almost wrapping up though, Alli decides that this is wrong, but Emily, drunk and enthuastic, is in way too deep (literally). Alli bales Emily out at the last moment, and being the nicer-than-real-life guys that they are, Hector and his buddies let the white teens go.
Later on, Emily files a false rape charge against Hector's crew, which is just the excuse cops need to put away Hector for some serious time. And although Hector didn't rape Emily, he did almost (or full-on) have sex with a minor, which is at least a statutory rape charge. Naturally, word gets around and Hector's crew put a hit out on Alli and Emily in revenge. At the same time, the wanna-bes decide to take revenge on Hector for caressing Alli by loading up on some real guns and going "extra-hard" in a revenge shoot-out against the 16th Street Gang. All of reality comes crashing down on Alli and she's now stuck waist deep between what she almost agreed to do that night, what Emily DID do and what she's lying about, what Hector's boys are planning to do now, and what extremes the Pacific Palisades boys plan on doing with those guns.
Now, the movie itself does almost start off in a bit of a... unintentional parody of itself, in the beginning. The film opens with a hardcore rap song (that's not that bad) and has Allison, the fighting, hardcore-sex-having, rapping, tough-as-nails white girl from a privledged life being as hard and intimidating as a girl from that kind of life could possibly pull off. However, as the movie progresses along, a lot of the "funny" life of Pacific Palisades goes away in favor of the hard, gritty reality of East L.A. life. Hector, for a gun-wielding drug dealer, is actually not that bad of a guy, at all. And I like that, as it brings some realism to his character. Just because this is the life he has to live doesn't make him a bad guy. In reality, more than likely, Alli and Emily would've been severely raped. But Hector, as much as he does want to have sex with a tall, buxom white girl, also in many ways, likes the idea of having a friend from a world outside of his own. Allison's transformation from unintentional comical wigger girl to having learned her lesson comes kind of quick, and a few loose ends in the movie really aren't wrapped up, like the fate of Hector, for example. One big deal that kind of hurts the movie is the fact that Alli and Emily get to get away. I think the idea of actually having their characters BE raped would've brought home the seriousness and dangerousness the movie is trying to portray. The fact that they "almost" had something horrible happen to them definitely may not come across as strong to most people.
But the movie, in some form or another, kind of does serve as a cautionary tale to any of real-life suburbian white girl who wants to be a hardcore, hip-hop thugette like Alli. There are more than a few ways they could easily destroy their lives trying to chase after an identity that clearly isn't them. Sure the movie isn't perfect on many levels, but I think it's moral holds up, through it all.
Again, the idea of Anne Hathaway playing this role is just a bit odd, though. Someone like Julia Styles or Mandy Moore would give this character SOME credit, not the Princess Diaries girl, but for what it's worth, Hathaway does seem to take her role VERY seriously, in trying to break out of her typecast of being the "princess" girl. All in all, "Havoc" is a good movie. Not great, but it delivers on everything it's trying to do. Wigger girl tries to get into the real world of the steets, wigger girl nearly pays the price, wigger girl no longer wants to be wigger girl.
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