I don't think a high school adaptation of Othello is necessarily the right call. It probably should have been college at the youngest, and they could have even kept the same cast. It dances in that same realm as Cruel Intentions where I think aging it up makes it a little better.
That aside, I just really love Josh Hartnett. I love the whole cast, but I REALLY love Josh Hartnett even with that haircut.
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Trust. Seduction. Betrayal.
Rating
3.5 (1)
Release Date
8/31/2001Runtime
95 minsOverview
Even though he's the only black student at the elite Palmetto Grove Academy, star basketball player and future NBA hopeful Odin James has the adoration of all, including the team's coach and the Dean's beautiful daughter Desi. Odin's troubled friend Hugo, the coach's son, is deeply resentful of his father's preference of Odin on and off the court. When Hugo plots a diabolical scheme to sow the seed of mistrust between O and Desi, it sets in motion a disturbing chain of events which erupts into a firestorm of breathtaking intensity.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
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$16,017,403Homepage
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A poisonous descent into paranoia and racial resentment that weaponizes jealousy to destroy everything a gifted young man has built. Watching it unfold is genuinely unsettling, less thriller, more moral catastrophe.
Mood
ParanoidDread-soakedTenseMelancholic
Themes
RaceBetrayalIdentity
Tone
Earnest
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
NaturalisticHandheld
Structure
Linear
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Racial violenceSexual contentAddiction
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