Spun
[DVD Info]

Following the lives of six speed addicts over the course of three days. First we meet Ross (Jason Schwartzman) who needs to score some speed. He's obsessed with his ex-girlfriend, April, but is sleeping with a stripper (which he consequently ties to a bed and leaves her there for 3 days). He goes to Spider Mike's (John Leguizamo) house that is the main dealer in that area. Spider Mike is always all over the place (prolly 'cause he's always on speed) and is always freaking out at people. Mike lives there with his girlfriend Cookie (Mena Suvari) who lives in her pj's and has gross teeth. Mike and Cookie are always fighting but then they always make up with sex. He also meets Nikki (Brittany Murphy) who's boyfriend, The Cook (Mickey Rourke), has a meth lab inside a small motel room. She also works at a strip club and has a green dog named Taco. Finally there's Frisbee (Patrick Fugit) a pimple factory who has an overly obese mother and gets arrested by cops who also do speed.
Ross gets stuck driving Nikki and The Cook around for the next three days until the sheep hit the fan and everything crumbles (rather anti-climactically I might add).

Being tied to a bed for three days turns you into a lesbian.

"Drop the cheese poofs ma'am!" ~Cop.

I haaaaaaaaaaate John Leguizamo! I don't know if it's because of "Summer of Sam" or the parts he plays...or the way he looks but he rubs me the wrong way! He's so sleeeeeeazy! Ewwwww!

What was up with Mena Suvari? Did she wake up one morning and say "I have a sucessful career and I'm pretty cute...so how can I make myself the most unappealing person EVER?! Oh yeah! I'll take a dump while they film me! Yay!" Eech. I didn't feel that was necessary to the "plot" of this movie.

Brittany Murphy! She always plays such slutty people. I'll leave it at that.

...This movie had no point. I don't know if it was trying to portray the evils of speed or what but this movie left me with nothing. There was no plot, no real story line, nothing! It left me wishing something would happen...anything! Even the death of Taco would have been something...besides seeing Mena Suvari take a dump, John Leguizamo jerk off in a sock, and everyone snort speed every 5 minutes. The only plus this movie had was the very very brief cameo by Ron Jeremy. If you want to see a good movie about drugs that will also scare you off the shat then see " Requiem for a Dream" or " Blow" even " Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." This movie didn't do anything but make me dislike these actors more. Because of this, the jury gives this flick:

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