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CRIME + PUNISHMENT IN SUBURBIA

Monica Keena, Vincent Kartheiser (2000, MGM, 98 mins., R, also on DVD)

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Rated: R; Genre: Drama; With: Ellen Barkin and Monica Keena

By Bruce Fretts

Like a WB rip-off of American Beauty, this empty-headed psychodrama casts Dawson's Creek castoff Keena as a morose teen bedeviled by gothically miserable parents (Ellen Barkin and Michael Ironside) and a creepy-voyeur classmate (Kartheiser). The title's copped from Dostoyevsky, but anybody who wastes their money renting such crap will feel like the main character in another of the Russian writer's works: The Idiot. D

Posted Jan 12, 2001

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