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	Spetters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Spetters, a Dutch film released in 1980 directed by Paul Verhoeven.
		Spetters led to many protests across the board about the caricatural manner in which Verhoeven portrayed gays, christians, the police, the press and more.
		Although Verhoeven made one more film in the Netherlands, it was the response to Spetters that led to his leaving the Netherlands for the more liberal film culture of the Hollywood of that day.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spetters (350 words)

	Spetters
		Spetters is essentially a working class coming of age film, concentrating on four characters who are trying to find the path that will suit them in life.
		The three men, the spetters ("hotshots" or "grease stains"), are in the dirt biking scene.
		In reality, Spetters runs a storyline quite parallel to Showgirls - a sexually explicit working class soap opera about fundamentally decent people who chase their dreams amorally, then either find failure or determine that they were chasing the wrong dreams.
	www.scoopy.com /spetters.htm (1825 words)

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		"Spetters" was one of the first foreign films I ever saw and I saw it uncut.
		I did grow up in a small town and I was in a group of "Spetters" (which is loosely translated as "HotShots").
		At that time, one of the girls known in my group had become a famous model we all wanted to be like her and have what she got.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0081547 (624 words)

	Spetters
		The three men, the spetters (it more or less means hotshots or grease spatterings depending upon whom you believe), are heavily involved in amateur Motorcross.
		Spetters is not the technical masterpiece that Verhoeven is known for, but there's certainly nothing wrong with it.
		In the end, Spetters is a film that you will remember because of its overall harsh and unflinching nature in addition to the fact it will shock you.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Spetters [1980]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Paul Verhoeven's much-underrated film Spetters tells the typically brash and uncompromising story of three young men growing up in a sleepy village just outside of Rotterdam, consumed by small-town ennui, and desperate for a life more glamorous and exciting than their own loafing existence of discothèques, motor-cross and general everyday tedium.
		The oft-discussed rape scene that happens half-way through the film is a real test for the audience, not simply for what is depicted within the scene (male gang rape replete with a brief erection) but also within the overall context (the protagonist eventually realises, through the rape, that he is indeed gay!).
		Spetters, for me, is an extreme film and something of a minor-masterpiece...
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000803PXQ (837 words)

	Symbolic Power and Religious Impotence in Paul Verhoeven’s Spetters by Richard S. Ascough
		An examination of the symbolic referents in the film, in particular the use of stereotypical male power symbols, shows how expectations of power dynamics are reversed in the lives of the main characters.
		Although religion is portrayed in the film, it seems like simply part of the backdrop to the coming of age stories of the protagonists.
		In the film, each of the main characters want to improve his or her situation in life, although each has his or her own definition of what that might entail.
	www.unomaha.edu /jrf/Vol7No2/spetters.htm (3330 words)

	Spetters (Ws Dir Sub Dol) : DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		It´s their loss; I think this is a fantastic film that offers some profound insights into the human condition.
		Director Paul Verhoven may be best known to the mallrats as the helmer for over-the-top sci fi like "Robocop","Total Recall" and "Starship Troopers" and most lamentably for his so-bad-it´s-good sex soaper "Showgirls", but he had arguably already left his best work in the sack of his native Holland a decade or two earlier.
		Paul Verhoeven´s story of three dirt bike buddies with motocross dreams in a small Netherlands town is just the kind of working-class soap opera one would expect from the director of Basic Instinct and Showgirls.
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	dOc DVD Review: Spetters (1980)
		He had already gained global notoriety with the graphic sexuality in his 1980 Spetters, with its concomitant sexual frankness in its tale of the life of young people in Rotterdam.
		Unlike those later Hollywod pictures, however, Spetters (a slang term for sexually attractive people, according to my Dutch friend) crackles with a realistic slice of life view of the troubled lives of these people, without the salacious attitudes seen in Verhoeven's later work.
		The story centers on the dreams of three young working-class men who are involved in motocross racing, the hot prospect Rien Hartman (Hans van Tongeren), his mechanic Eef Dewitt (Toon Agterberg) and the hapless and clueless Hans Black (Maarten Spanjer).
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=4065 (960 words)

	Amazon.com: Spetters (Ws Dir Sub Dol): DVD: Paul Verhoeven,Hans van Tongeren,Renée Soutendijk,Toon Agterberg,Maarten ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		"Spetters" is a must see for Verhoeven fans of his earlier pre-Hollywood work.
		"Spetters," directed by Paul Verhoeven, tells the story of three young working-class Dutchmen who are into motorbike racing.
		"Spetters" is a remarkable film--a raw, gritty ensemble drama that is superbly acted.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006I04L?v=glance (1894 words)

	channel4.com/film - Spetters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Dismissed in some quarters as an oversexed, gore-obsessed degenerate, a quick look at Verhoeven's early pictures reveals that there is certainly some method to his madness.
		And while his Dutch films can be as bloody and libidinous as his better-known American movies, Spetters - for some, the highlight of his European career - proves that a rich sense of humour and a keen understanding of character lurk behind the exaggerated showman's love of excess.
		Spetters (the title roughly translates as "Hotshots") is far less glossy than Verhoeven's recent offerings.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=108601 (275 words)

	eBay - DVD: Spetters (UPC: 027616880666) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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		Some bits are very blunt and will take some off-guard, but, overall, Spetters is a pretty decent coming-of-age tale.
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	Spetters - Moviefone
		Synopsis: Spetters is Dutch vernacular for "grease spatterings." The title is an allusion to the oily renderings left behind by the motorcycles commandeered by...
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	Amazon.ca: Spetters (Widescreen Director's Cut): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Rutger Hauer and Jeroen Krabbé make appearances as the dirt bike champion and a self-promoting sportscaster.
		The Spetters DVD preserves the 123-minute "director's cut" version of the film with all its graphic footage intact.
		Worth watching, but certainly not for the faint of heart.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006I04L (925 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - Spetters / DVD-Video
		From notorious filmmaker Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct, Showgirls) and writer Gerard Soeteman comes this director's cut of an "explosive, fast paced" (Boxoffice) coming of age drama.
		Rien, Eef and Hans are three young working-class guys stuck in an industrial town on the outskirts of Rotterdam.
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	Broadmining: Spetters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Spetters, a Dutch film released in 1980, was the controversial "mainstream"
		The film, which is violent and sexually explicit, centers on four young people in the Netherlands - a young motocross racing champion, a
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