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Teens Who Kill For Love
In Tim Blake Nelson's controversail retelling of the Shakespeare classic,
"O" is Odin James (Mekhi Phifer), the black star basketball
player at an all white boarding school. He has the adoration of all,
including the team coach (Martin Sheen) and the Dean's beautiful daughter
Desi (Julia Stiles). Odin's troubled friend Hugo ( Josh Harnett),
the coach's son, is deeply resentful of his father's preference of
Odin. He schemes to sow the seeds of mistrust in the relationship
of O and Desi, setting in motion a disturbing chain of evens which
erupts into a firestorm of violence. The problem is: who are these
teenagers? They look like adults, talk like adults, and handle
their problems, badly, like adults do. The bloody denoument is positively
ugly, but there is little to be gleaned, because the hot young stars
who populate "O" are not recognizable. For some true teen
tragedy, featuring boredom, thrift store clothes, and broken hearts,
you'd be better off with another recent DVD release: "Ghost World."
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