A Boy Called Hate

Infobox Film
name = A Boy Called Hate
director = Mitch Marcus
producer = Steven Haft
writer = Mitch Marcus
starring = Scott Caan
Lee Nashold
Kevin Michael Richardson
James Caan
Missy Crider
Elliott Gould
music = Pray for Rain
cinematography = Paul Holahan
editing = Michael Ruscio
distributor = Aquarius TV, Canes Home Video, Dove
released = flagicon|Germany February 11 1995
flagicon|USA May 22 1996
runtime = 95 mins. (97 mins. USA)
country = Germany
language = English
amg_id = 1:134325
imdb_id = 0112568

A Boy Called Hate is a 1996 film starring Scott Caan, his father James Caan, Missy Crider, Adam Beach and Elliott Gould. It was the first film directed by Mitch Marcus, who also wrote the screenplay.

Plot

Steve (Scott Caan) is a maladjusted Los Angeles teenager who renames himself “Hate” following a run-in with the local police. He lives with his father James Caan, who is bilking a former employer in a workers compensation fraud scheme. One evening while taking a motorcycle ride, Hate witnesses what appears to be an attempted rape. He shoots the would-be attacker and takes off with Cindy, the young girl being assaulted (Missy Crider). It turns out that the rapist is an assistant district attorney (Elliott Gould), who survives the shooting and falsely reports that he was the victim of a robbery. Hate and Cindy leave Los Angeles, but their situation deteriorates when Hate fatally shoots a motorcycle officer whom he mistakenly believes has come to arrest him. [ [http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117909822.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&p=0 Variety review] ]

Critical reaction

"A Boy Called Hate" had a brief theatrical release in June 2006 and received negative reviews. Lawrence van Gelder, writing in "The New York Times", dubbed it “the movie equivalent of a prepackaged meal in a jiffy: bland and undistinguished.” [ [http://www.nytimes.com/library/filmarchive/boy_called_hate.html New York Times review] ] Peter Stack, reviewing the film for "The San Francisco Chronicle", complained that “most of this pretentious bad- boy movie...tests viewer patience.” [ [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1996/05/24/DD40592.DTL San Francisco Chronicle review] ] Nisid Hajari, reviewing the film’s VHS video release for "Entertainment Weekly", remarked: “”If awards were given for being almost funny, this offering (which, believe it or not, played theaters) would rake in the statuettes. As it is, however, the flick never graduates beyond simple dreck.” [ [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,293327,00.html Entertainment Weekly review] ] To date, there has been no DVD release for "A Boy Called Hate".

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*imdb title | id=0112568 | title=A Boy Called Hate