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	Crime and Punishment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Crime and Punishment focuses on Raskolnikov, an impoverished student who formulates a plan to kill a hated money-lender, thereby ridding the world of her evil.
		Crime and Punishment portrays Raskolnikov's gradual realisation of his crime and his latent desire to confess to the murders.
		The notion of duality in Crime and Punishment has been commented upon, with the suggestion that there is a degree of symmetry to the book.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crime_and_Punishment (3113 words)

	Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Plot Summary: This is a contemporary fable loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment".
		In the end, she has to decide: leave her mother be convicted and live with the feeling of guilt for the rest of her life, or assume the responsibility for the crime.
		"Crime and Punishment in Suburbia" is a surprisingly great teen free adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment".
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0197384 (440 words)

	DVD Review: Crime + Punishment In Suburbia
		"Crime + Punishment" teaches me that another addition to the worst of the year can always be seen right before the year closes.
		Although the material that Keena is given isn't realistic, engaging or the least bit entertaining, she is an actress who has presence and at least tries to make something out of next to nothing.
		VIDEO: MGM's presentation of "Crime and Punishment" isn't perfect - although the visuals are too much for their own good at times, they do translate well to MGM's effort here.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews2/crimepunishinsuburbdvd.html (634 words)

	Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In this contemporary retelling of Dostoevski's famed novel, "Crime and Punishment," Roseanne, a brainy and beautiful high school student, conspires with her boyfriend to murder her stepfather.
		After the two successfully pull off the crime, they discover a minor hitch: Vincent, a classmate with a raging crush on Roseanne, has witnessed the whole thing.
		However, when her mother is charged with the murder, Roseanne discovers that Vincent is less of a threat to their secret than her own conscience.
	www.allocine.co.uk /film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=25743.html (132 words)

	village voice > film > Crime and Punishment in Suburbia; Turn it Up; On the Run by Jessica Winter
		Borrowing its unwieldy title if little else from Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment in Suburbia eschews the novel's labyrinthine intersections of reason and evil for a straightforward avenging-angel plot, yet it does manage an intriguing gloss on the unique logic of vengeance.
		Roseanne's lamentably expert coping mechanisms explain why she never seems capable of any of the crime and punishment going down in this Californian suburbia, but the inconsistency doesn't derail the film.
		Her shy, trauma-induced movements away from her dick-swingin' goofball Jimmy and toward the sweet, fucked-up, vaguely androgynous outsider Vincent feel blisteringly true; the film's instantly dated stylizations begin to appear as a welcome distancing device from the pain of being young, trapped, and hatefully vulnerable.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0037/winter.shtml (496 words)

	Crime + Punishment In Suburbia - Movie Review
		While the film opens with a quotation from Crime and Punishment, which, I suppose, is intended to lead us to a new interpretation of the book, that's the only (tenuous) connection.
		He later discovers that the worst punishment for the murder was the one his guilty conscience made him to endure.
		The genre of the film is familiar -- using the suburbs as an emotional terrain where the sense of unwholesomeness surrounds the surfaces of people’s life and threatens their seemingly secure shelters.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/crimepunishmentinsuburbia (549 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "Crime and Punishment in Suburbia"
		"Crime and Punishment in Suburbia" will fade from theaters and memory so quickly that it hardly seems worth the time and energy to slam it.
		The closest "Crime and Punishment in Suburbia" gets to its source is that the filmmakers seem to share Raskolnikov's view about the innate inferiority of some human beings.
		Watching it, I thought longingly of Daniel Handler's novel "The Basic Eight," a truly daring take on teen violence (and the hand-wringing moralizing that follows it) that had the bad luck to be published just after the shootings at Columbine.
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2000/09/22/crime_and_punishment/print.html (829 words)

	Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		As for "Crime and Punishment", the titular reference to Dostoevsky's novel indicates a tight connection, but none exists.
		Crime and Punishment provides only a sketchy outline for the action.
		Her father is a drunken loser who stays home feeling sorry for himself and her mother is a drunken loser who goes out to feel sorry for herself.
	www.fakes.net /suburbia.htm (669 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Crime And Punishment In Suburbia (xhtml)
		"Crime and Punishment in Suburbia" is no doubt "flawed"--that favorite moviecrit word--and it suffers from being released a year after the similar "American Beauty," even though it was made earlier.
		He is a complicated boy with an angelic face, and a mom who looks at him and says, "It's gonna be so interesting to see what you're like after you get out of this stage." Taking a clue from the movie's title, we wonder if he represents Raskolnikov, the hero of Dostoyevsky's novel.
		But director Rob Schmidt and writer Larry Gross have borrowed little other than the title and the workings of guilty emotions from Crime and Punishment.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20000922/REVIEWS/9220301/1023 (735 words)

	Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
		Made about the same time as a similar story, American Beauty (AB), Crime and Punishment in Suburbia, at first appears to be a more hard-edged version of AB.
		In Crime, while there are a few things to chuckle about, in no way is it a comedy.
		The characters in AB have the potential to self-destruct and in the early scenes of Crime, you know without a doubt, that something real bad is going to happen real soon.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /2000/id605.htm (851 words)

	Political Film Society - Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
		The theme of angst of suburbia, from Over the Edge (1979) to American Beauty (1999), is replayed with far more raw intensity in Crime and Punishment in Suburbia, directed by Rob Schmidt.
		Originally, the movie was to be called "Crime and Punishment in High School," but the title changed after the Columbine massacre so that the focus would be on the causes of violence rather than the violence itself.
		Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution.
	www.geocities.com /polfilms/crimepunishment.html (729 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Reviews \| Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
		Instead, it offers a determinedly unpleasant crime: perky teen Roseanne Skolnik (Monica Teena) kills her brutish stepfather (Michael Ironside) with an electric carving knife rather than a hatchet.
		Then comes the punishment: the murder is pinned on Roseanne's mother Maggie (Ellen Barkin) and guilt gets the better of our latter-day Raskolnikov.
		Roseanne's partner in crime is her football star boyfriend Jimmy (James DeBello), and voiceover commentary is provided by snap-happy neighbourhood stalker Vincent (Vincent Kartheiser).
	film.guardian.co.uk /News_Story/Critic_Review/Guardian_review/0,4267,417906,00.html (375 words)

	Netribution > Features > Reviews > Film > Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
		Nothing in Crime and Punishment in Suburbia forces you to look at one character in isolation from all the others.
		Crime and Punishment in Suburbia falls someway short of being such a resonantly powerful work as its namesake, but scenes and images do linger.
		Crime and Punishment in Suburbia definitely deserves a viewing.
	www.netribution.co.uk /features/reviews/film/crime_punishment-suburbia.html (460 words)

	CRIME & PUNISHMENT IN SUBURBIA - Production Notes...CinemaReview.com....Movie Reviews, Movie Contents, Moviegoer ...
		Although it was Larry Gross who scripted the dark, unnerving teen thriller Crime + Punishment in Suburbia, loosely based on Dostoyevsky's novel Crime and Punishment, it was director Rob Schmidt who caught the eye of Killer Film's überindie producer Christine Vachon.
		One of the reasons an independent movie like Crime + Punishment in Suburbia was green lit is the current obsession with teenagers and teen films in Hollywood.
		But Crime + Punishment in Suburbia offers more than that to the producers and the director of the film.
	www.cinemareview.com /production.asp?prodid=1111 (1626 words)

	Amazon.ca: Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (Widescreen/Full Screen): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		This leads to a cycle of events that never seem to be captured with the level of drama or intesity that you'd expect.
		"Crime + Punishment" is as dark and devoid of energy as Larry Clark's "Kids" or Darren Aronofsky's "Requeim For A Dream" but it doesn't stand out the way they did.
		There are some solid perfomances from Keena and the always-dependable Michael Ironside as her drunken stepdad but none of the characters ever seem to stand out.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000053V7I (1034 words)

	Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (2000) - MovieWeb
		Somewhere in the middle of nowhere California, Roseanne Skolnick (Monica Keena), the most popular girl in school, just made a mistake she can't smile her way out of.
		Her plot to remove the one blemish in her perfect little world takes a terrible turn when her mother (Ellen Barkin) is charged for her crime.
		Crime + Punishment in Suburbia is a romantic tale that unveils the many faces of love in a journey towards truth.
	www.movieweb.com /movies/film/54/2054/summary.php (214 words)

	Crime + Punishment in Suburbia - Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews
		Crime + Punishment is the story of one truly screwed up teen.
		While it tries to make the case for (ultimately) taking responsibility for one's actions, we didn't believe the twists and turns the story took to get there.
		Were Cranky able to set his own price to Crime + Punishment in Suburbia, he would have paid...
	www.crankycritic.com /archive00/crimepunishmentsuburbs.html (720 words)

	DVD: punishment (investigative prestuplenie pedophiles) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		So, Capitol Punishment, never mind the cover this isn't "Gary goes to prison" I'm pretty sure the graphics guys didn't watch the movie and just assumed because the film was called "Capitol Punishment" it was a prison flick, well, it isn't.
		A poor student, Rodion Raskolnikov, commits a crime which is inevitably...
		Over three hundred convicts have been executed since the Supreme Court re-instituted the death penalty in 1976, and its use is on the rise nationwide.
	www.very-clever.com /dvd/punishment (1094 words)

	Crime And Punishment In Suburbia \| The A.V. Club
		The placid, wholesome façade of suburbia has been shredded so many times in recent years that a truly novel film would find something redeemable about this conformist cesspool of depravity and dysfunction.
		In this case, virtually nothing but the crime and the punishment—a gratuitous hack job involving an electric carving knife and a not-so-subtle Christ allegory.
		Ugly and vapid, Crime And Punishment In Suburbia tackles two oft-mined institutions in its title and does little justice to either.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/4488 (382 words)

	Crime + Punishment In Suburbia (Full Frame) - Wal-Mart
		This contemporary urban fable, loosely based on Dostoyevsky's "Crime And Punishment," is a gripping and provocative account of a young woman's attempt to permanently end the advances of her abusive stepfather.
		She convinces her boyfriend to sneak out of a pep rally for a date with destiny, revenge...and the brutal murder of her abusive stepfather.
		But once she's gotten away with murder, Roseanne is shocked to learn that her mother's untimely arrival at the scene of the crime has put her behind bars!
	www.walmart.com /catalog/product.gsp?product_id=1124021 (735 words)

	Crime and Punishment in Suburbia - DVD - Title C Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Crime and Punishment in Suburbia is directed by Rob Schmidt.
		‘Crime and Punishment in Suburbia’ is altogether darker stuff although it does fall into this category.
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	Crime and Punishment in Suburbia Review :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Welcome to the generic streets of suburbia, U.S.A., where even revenge, murder and teen sex can be boring.
		While the film borrows its name and a few thematic licks from Dostoevsky's immortal bummer-of-a-novel "Crime and Punishment," the results on-screen play more like an assortment of mismatching "American Beauty" outtakes.
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	www.hollywood.com /movies/reviews/movie/414260 (319 words)

	iFMagazine.com Reviews - Crime + Punishment In Suburbia
		Director Rob Schmidt's well-meaning but ultimately misfiring CRIME + PUNISHMENT IN SUBURBIA is a disappointment of the former variety, a little film that couldn't - and an exceedingly dull way to spend a couple of hours.
		Larry Gross' script borrows Dostoyevky's basic idea - that of a young person plotting a murder then living with the repercussions - and spins it off in his own direction, with new characters and a very different tone (though a winking reference to the novel's plot briefly pops up in one character's backstory).
		The filmmakers trip over themselves trying to use all of this to say deep things about the bleakness of modern life in the sanitized wasteland of American suburbia, etcetera, etcetera, but very little of what is happening on-screen is convincing on the simple dramatic level.
	www.ifmagazine.com /review.asp?article=587 (589 words)

	Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (2000): Reviews
		Loosely based on Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment," this modern day story is about Roseanne (Keena) who is being abused by her stepfather.
		The whole point is nothing more than the revelation that the terrain of suburbia is populated with damaged people inflicting damage on others.
		The "crime" was that it was made in the first place and the "punishment" is having to watch it.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/crimepunishmentinsuburbia (544 words)

	Rob Schmidt's Crime and Punishment in Suburbia
		Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (2000) Directed by Rob Schmidt.
		With all the finesse of a dull kitchen knife, this loose adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's classic Russian novel attempts to strip away the layers of small-town hypocrisy.
		It's eye-rolling observations like these, peppered throughout absent minded voice-overs, that make Crime and Punishment a real chore to sit through without throwing darts at the screen.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/8270/62291 (469 words)

	BBC - Films - review - Crime + Punishment in Suburbia
		On the surface, this appears to be yet another American high-school flick, but there's much more to "Crime + Punishment in Suburbia" than you'd normally expect from the genre.
		In this rather uncomfortable blend of Dostoyevsky's 19th century classic tragedy "Crime and Punishment" and a US teen melodrama, Roseanne (Keena) is a popular schoolgirl, who lives in a grand house and whose boyfriend Jimmy (DeBello) is the school's top American footballer.
		As the film progresses, we learn more about her unhappy home life, through the eyes of the narrator, Vincent, a classmate of her's.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2000/12/19/crime_and_punishment_2000_review.shtml (448 words)

	Flipside Movie Emporium: Crime and Punishment in Suburbia Movie Review
		An obvious example of the "suburbia as nightmare" is the presentation of a high school pep rally as a fiery Leni Reifenstahl-style nazi ceremony from Triumph of the Will.
		" If Crime and Punishment honestly believes this is shedding new light on teenage nightmares, it would be way off the mark if it hadn't already been done to death in other movies.
		Trying to fill the vacuous gap, Crime and Punishment is packed with songs every hipster will know and love.
	www.flipsidemovies.com /crimepunishmentinsuburbia.html (697 words)

	Crime + Punishment In Suburbia - Rent on DVD at QwikFliks.com Online DVD Movie Rentals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		This contemporary urban fable, loosely based on Dostoyevsky's Crime And Punishment, is a gripping and provocative account of a young woman's attempt to permanently end the advances of her abusive step-father.
		She convinces her boyfriend to sneak out of a pep rally for a date with destiny, revenge…and the brutal murder of her abusive step-father.
		But once she's gotten away with murder, Rosanne is shocked to learn that her mother's untimely arrival at the scene of the crime has put her behind bars!
	www.qwikfliks.com /dvd_info.asp?movID=210668 (226 words)

	Crime + Punishment in Suburbia Film Review - Time Out Film
		Crime + Punishment in Suburbia Film Review - Time Out Film
		A rare disappointment from maverick indie producer Christine Vachon, this story of festering psychosis beneath the placid surface of everyday US suburbia looks familiar coming so soon after American Beauty.
		Director Schmidt coaxes assured performances from Keena's good-girl-gone-bad and Kartheiser's fl-clad loner, with Barkin suitably ravaged as the unhappy mom, and Ironside playing on his usual villainous screen image as the violent dad.
	www.timeout.com /film/69824.html (158 words)

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