2005 · crime · drama · coming-of-age
Havoc
Directed by Barbara Kopple1h 26m2005
A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends wants to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California's "gangsta" lifestyle. But problems arise when the preppies get in over their heads and provoke the wrath of a violent Latino gang. Suddenly, their role-playing seems a little too real.
Our read: Havoc (2005) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded crime · drama · coming-of-age entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme crime / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
- cold
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