Posted: 07/31/2000

The In Crowd

(2000)

by Kate Bishop

The crowds are staying away from this little doggie in droves!

Take a pound of the show Popular, and another pound of the recent film Girl, Interrupted and mix together. Once all mixed, then add a dash of the Scream trilogies and VOILA!—you have a ridiculously insipid creation called, The In Crowd.

The In Crowd stars Lori Heuring (The Newton Boys) as a troubled young woman released from a mental hospital on the condition that she stay drug-free, not leave the city, and remain employed at an exclusive country club. Through the job, she encounters a group of idle rich led by Susan Ward (Poison Ivy—The New Seduction), a woman with a dark secret and a missing sister who happens to look exactly like Heuring.

In spite of director Mary Lambert’s weak efforts, a few unintentionally hilarious moments are scattered throughout, including Heuring and Ward’s final confrontation—a climax so overheated it could have come from a comic book.

This movie is worse than your average grade B-movie. The In Crowd lacks conviction and most of all, a storyline that can maintain a viewer throughout the first 15 minutes. I knew something was up when I was the ONLY one in the theater.

This turkey’s going straight to video. Avoid it like the plague.

Kate Bishop is an artist and writer living in Atlanta, GA.

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