- Fun (film)
Infobox_Film
name = Fun
director =Rafal Zielinski
writer = James Bosley
starring =Alicia Witt Renée Humphrey William R. Moses Leslie Hope
producer =
music = Rana Joy Glickman
cinematography = Jens Sturup
editing = Monika Lightstone
distributor =Greycat Films /Neo Modern Entertainment
released =April 14 ,1995
runtime = 105 min.
country =Canada /United States
language = English
budget - Unknown
imdb_id = 0109855"Fun" is a 1994 independent
drama film starringAlicia Witt andRenée Humphrey , directed by Rafal Zielinski. Both Witt and Humphrey won a Special Jury Recognition for Technical Acting at the 1995Sundance Film Festival . The film centres on the murder of an elderly woman by two mentally unstable girls. It received high critical praise, but failed at thebox office ; it has since performed well on subsequent video releases.Plot
The film is told in
flashback s detailing the girls' relationship (in color), and their time in prison (in black and white). Bonnie, aged 14, (Witt) and Hillary, aged 15, (Humphrey) meet at a bus stop inLos Angeles, California and begin a relationship. They stroll around their city, chuck rocks onto ahighway from an overpass bridge, run rampant in shopping malls, and playvideo games .Their day escalates into an eruption of violence and rage when they brutally stab an elderly woman to death. They then run to a
gas station and attempt to wash off the blood from their clothes. After their arrest, they claim that the murder was purely just for "fun". The story moves from the juvenile detention centre where the girls are kept, to the girls on the day of the killing.imilar films
Peter Jackson 's highly acclaimed film "Heavenly Creatures ", released the same year as "Fun", is a very similar film. It centres on two girls' obsession with each other, and how the friendship escalated into the murder of the mother of one of the girls. Neither of the films copied one another, as Heavenly Creature's plot is based on a true story that occurred inNew Zealand in the 1950s. "Thirteen" also features a similar plot, revolving around two girls' dangerous relationship with each other. "Butterfly Kiss ", a British film of the same period, deals with a similarly murderous relationship between two women.External links
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