S.F.W.

1994

Action / Comedy / Drama

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 50% · 16 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 50% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 5658 5.7K

popularity based on novel or book escape media loss of loved one kidnapping

Plot summary

An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to their threats to kill him makes news headlines.

Director

Jefery Levy Photo
Jefery Levy

Top cast

Tobey Maguire Photo
Tobey Maguire as Al
Reese Witherspoon Photo
Reese Witherspoon as Wendy Pfister
Philip Moon Photo
Philip Moon as Reporter
Natasha Gregson Wagner Photo
Natasha Gregson Wagner as Kristen
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832.22 MB
1280*682
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
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1.55 GB
1920*1024
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by damianphelps 6 / 10

Dorff's Best?

If not its certainly a contender. If anything you could look at the rest of his career and consider he has been searching for ways to recreate this character ever since.Its a pretty cool movie that along with Natural Born Killers was a high profile examination of, at the time, media practices (NBK in a much more extreme way) and the creation of celebrity (regardless of talent or in spite of it).Its sassy, funny and for sure entertaining :)
Reviewed by PIST-OFF 5 / 10

Nihilism doesn't translate to film

One of those uber nineties movies that critiqued the media and tried to be edgy. These movies look somewhat ridiculous today. (Though the Chase with Charlie Sheen at least managed to be funny). Part of the problem is that the underlying philosophy is a value free world weariness which when put on film comes across as spoiled, stupid, and self indulgent laziness. And since movies are essentially THEE dominant form of media, criticizing media's omnipresence or vanity comes across as blithely self deluded. That said the cast does the best with what they have.... which generally rounds out to putting as much emphasis on their turn to curse as possible. The plot..... if it can be called that makes very very little sense if you stop to think about for more than half a second. The central event of movie is never so much explained as much as it brought back in choppy flashbacks in order to remind the audience about why were following these characters. Better time could be spent watching a smarter film on the topic. I suggest Network.All that being said, I can't completely hate a movie with this great of a soundtrack. The fact that almost a minute of screen time is given over to the band Gwar makes it at least retain some value. I've also noticed that music from the 50's - 70's is thrown into movies at all different times. But the only time you hear 90s music is in 90's era movies. It's almost as though Gen X in their nihilism forgot to leave any lasting mark on culture.
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