- Actors: Henry Thomas, Colin Hanks, Ben Foster, Patrick Swayze, Rachael Leigh Cook
- Directors: Greg Marcks
- Writers: Greg Marcks
- Producers: Hilary Swank, Beau Flynn, David Rubin, Jeff Kwatinetz, John Morrissey
- Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language English
- Subtitles: English, Spanish
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: R (Restricted) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: New Line Home Video
- DVD Release Date: 11 Oct 2005
- Run Time: 86 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000ALM40I
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 131,043 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The ripple effects of an accident.,
By M. J Leonard "MikeonAlpha" (Silver Lake, Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: 11:14 [DVD] [2006] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
The way the lives of the several different characters intersect on a fateful night in the town of Middleton is the highlight of the strangely titled 11:24, a small, independent film that is sort of "film schoolish," but ultimately quite enjoyable. Like a less glitzy, small-town version of Go or even Memento, the film follows several story threads that all converge in a single moment, involving a traffic accident. The crash begins as Jack (Henry Thomas) is driving down the road, somewhat drunk, when he hits somebody at 11:14 p.m. Panicked he tries to hide the body in the trunk of his car, when Norma (Barbara Hershey) pulls up beside him and assumes that he has been hit by a deer. He manages to fob her off, but then has a face off with the town cop, Officer Hannagan (Clark Gregg), who immediately arrests him. As this situation unfolds, director, Greg Marcks sweeps us backwards in time to meet other characters, all of them related in unexpected ways to that accident. Most of the characters operate according to secret motives and their lives become entwined, not by mere chance, but as a direct consequence of the actions they take. They all seem to be bumbling through the night; with every step they take making it worse. Hilary Swank plays Buzzy, a hapless store clerk, probably the only truly trusting and sincere character in the film, who is appalled when her friend Duffy (Shawn Hatosy) wants to rob her store so that he can get some fast cash to pay for girlfriend, Cheri's (Rachael Leigh Cook) abortion. Cheri for her part is a young tart, juggling at least two guys at once, for reasons not immediately clear. Cheri's father Frank (Patrick Swayze) is annoyed at his daughter's philandering ways, and has been trying to stop her from seeing anyone. Meanwhile, three young drunk young men are out to cause some trouble. They end up hitting a woman with a van, while one of them gets him male member severed. Since the film kicks off with a pivotal moment, getting to the action immediately. We know exactly where things are going - but Marcks proves to be effective at keeping us in suspense as the puzzle like story gradually unfolds. What makes 11:14 so eminently watchable is that Marcks doesn't just have a novel way of telling his story; he has a really good story to tell, and solid screenplay satisfyingly clicks everything together, unraveling little mysteries as it goes along, leaving nothing hanging. The tone of the movie is part dramatic, part dark comic, but mostly totally absurd, and the offbeat sensibilities are effectively maintained throughout. There's just enough ambiguity with the story and the characters to hold our attention, and also enough information for audiences to have fun piecing all the disparate clues together. Mike Leonard October 05.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Just wait for all of the pieces to fit to figure out the puzzle in this black comedy,
By Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER)
This review is from: 11:14 [DVD] [2006] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
I see a lot of comments on how writer-director Greg Marcks's film "11:14" is in the tradition of "Pulp Fiction," but that is true only to the extent that you are talking about a film that plays with chronology. True, Quentin Tarantino made it possible to tell a story in a non-linear mode, but that is not what Marck does in this one. What he does is more akin to Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon," where we get the same story from various perspectives. Even here the analogy is not completely on point either, because in "Rashomon" each character tells a decidedly different version, only the last of which is privileged as what really happened. In "11:14" each pass through the story covers essentially the same time (each story starts progressively earlier in the evening), but for the most part in a different place. The "most" part of that last sentence is key, because the characters and stories interconnect and as we learn something new we rethink what has gone out before.
We begin with Jack Levine (Henry Thomas), who is driving along one night in the town of Middleton, talking on a cell phone, a bottle of booze on the front seat, when he gets disconnected from his call, the clock in his car hits 11:14 and a body hits his windshield. The situation, to put it mildly, is not good, and they manage to get progressively worse for Jack (could YOU recite the alphabet backwards under pressure?). I do not want to get into the details, because that would spoil the fun. Suffice it to say this is only the first piece in this black comedy. It is important you know that this is a black comedy because cars hitting people, or people hitting cars, are not usually topics of humor. Besides, there are arguably worse things that happen to people in this movie (depending on your point of view, which very well may be gender specific). The rest of the cast, in alphabetical order, are Rachel Leigh Cook as Cheri, Ben Foster as Eddie, Colin Hanks as Mark, Clark Gregg as Officer Hannagan (who is having a very full night), Shawn Hatosy as Duffy, Blake Heron as Aaron, Barbara Hershey as Norma, Stark Sands as Tim, Hilary Swank as Buzzy, and Patrick Swayze as Frank. I have no doubt that all of them were persuaded to go with Marck, whose only previous credit was the 19-minute long "Lector" (about a man who makes his living reading books to cigar rollers at a time when the new technology of the radio is threatening his job, on the basis of this script. That is because this script adds a new layer of meaning to the story each time around as we come full circle and finally understand what really happened. I agree with the fine ensemble cast that signed on for this one, that Marck pulls it off, and that what we end up with is not so much a cosmic joke as what might actually be cosmic justice. The only question now is what does Marck do for an encore? Because you can only play this type of game once.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
excellent,
By Glitzy (uk) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 11.14 [DVD] (DVD)
i just watched this film, had no idea what itd be like, thought itd be scary thank god it wasnt as i didnt want to be scared this early in the day lol!!! but it is like getting all the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and putting them together. the film basically has 5 different events happen all at one time, throughout the film you see how they all link to one another and at the end how it fits in to one story kind of. its really good a great film, perhaps could be longer or more of a storyline but it was a great watch and different. oh and its a bit gruesome as there are lots of blood but its not scary, and the storyline is good. worth a watch!!
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