2 Aug 2006

Havoc

Director: Barbara Kopple

Starring: Anne Hathaway, Bijou Phillips, Mike Vogel, Laura San Giacomo, Michael Biehn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Matt O'Leary

Screening: 2006-06-27

Havoc may not have the hype attending two big films opening this
week (Superman Returns and 4:30) but it's still worth watching —
especially for lesbian viewers who are madly in love with the impossibly
beautiful Anne Hathaway.


Anne has been making waves recently. After charming audiences in
safe family fare like The Princess Diaries and Ella Enchanted, she
began taking risks with her career by playing a gay man's wife in
Brokeback Mountain and then doing nude scenes in Havoc. She will
also appear opposite Meryl Streep in the delicious upcoming comedy
The Devil Wears Prada.


In Havoc, her most provocative role to date, Anne plays a rich,
bored and lonely teenager whose parents neglect her. After visiting
a dangerous Latino neighborhood to score some drugs, she becomes
fascinated with the wild side. She befriends a cool Latino drug
dealer (Freddie Rodriguez) who introduces her to a world of guns,
group sex and crack cocaine.


This movie is semi-notorious because Anne goes topless a few times
and shares some lesbian-tinged moments with actress Bijou Philips.
But Anne gets away with it because of her surprisingly strong and
assured performance. The script is written by Stephen Gaghan of
Traffic and Syriana fame, and the movie is directed by Barbara Kopple,
who helmed several episodes of the gritty cop show Homicide: Life
on the Streets
.


A must-see for Anne Hathaway fans.