Tangled (2001)

Director:

Jay Lowi

Writers (WGA):

Jeffrey Lieber (story) &
Michael Shapiro (story) ...
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Release Date:

2 November 2001 (Portugal)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

The best of friends make the worst of enemies.

Plot:

A young man is found bruised, beaten and stumbling down a secluded road. As the police try to piece together what happened...

Plot Keywords:

Male Full Frontal Nudity | Male Frontal Nudity | Told In Flashback | Surprise Ending

Cast

Rachael Leigh Cook	...	Jenny Kelley
Shawn Hatosy	...	David Klein
Jonathan Rhys Meyers	...	Alan Hammond (as Jonathan Rhys-Meyers)
Estella Warren	...	Elise Stevens
Lorraine Bracco	...	Det. Anne Andersle
Dwayne Hill	...	Det. Denny Nagle
Joyce Gordon	...	Kara
Jane Moffat	...	Librarian
Robert McKenna	...	Uncle Finch
Robert Graham Gray	...	Young Man

Directed by
Jay Lowi

Writing credits (WGA)
Jeffrey Lieber		(story) &
Michael Shapiro		(story) &
Shawn Simons		(story)
Jeffrey Lieber		(screenplay)

Produced by
Peter Abrams	....	producer
Robert E. Baruc	....	executive producer
Nicolas Chartier	....	associate producer
Eric Christenson	....	associate producer
Rachael Leigh Cook	....	producer
Kirk D'Amico	....	executive producer
Jennifer Gibgot	....	producer
Robert L. Levy	....	producer
Carlo Liconti	....	line producer
Jeffrey Lieber	....	co-producer
Jonathon Komack Martin	....	producer
Philip von Alvensleben	....	executive producer
Peter Wetherell	....	co-producer

Original Music by
Reinhold Heil
Johnny Klimek

Cinematography by
Bobby Bukowski

Film Editing by
Emma E. Hickox

Casting by
Clare Walker

Production Design by
Perri Gorrara

Art Direction by
Astra Burka

Set Decoration by
Nicky Ryborg

Costume Design by
Gersha Phillips

Makeup Department
Randy Daudlin	....	makeup artist
Zinka Shankland	....	hair stylist
Michelle Willis	....	assistant hair stylist
Michelle Willis	....	assistant makeup artist

Production Management
Robert Appelbe	....	unit production manager
Sherwood Jones	....	post-production supervisor
Kim Yu	....	production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Derby Crewe	....	first assistant director
Robert L. Levy	....	second unit director
Sara MacDonald	....	second assistant director
Chris Makepeace	....	third assistant director
Ziggi Miller	....	trainee assistant director

Art Department
Paul Berta	....	storyboard artist
Damien DePuis	....	set dresser
C.J. Devine	....	art production assistant
Dwight Doerksen	....	construction coordinator
Samantha Flatman	....	art production assistant
W. 'Wildman' Forsyth	....	carpenter
Jamie Hatch	....	location carpenter
Jason Herriott	....	key scenic
Alain Nadeau	....	lead dresser
Dawn Starkman	....	props buyer
Tyler Unrau	....	assistant property master
Tania Wilkinson	....	set dresser
Julia Wille	....	property master

Sound Department
Tom D. Backman	....	digital sound transferer
Peter Brown	....	supervising sound editor
Danielle Donaldson	....	dialogue assistant
Stephen Hunter Flick	....	sound effects editor (as Steve Flick)
Emily Gaydos	....	dialogue editor
Jerry Gilbert	....	sound re-recording mixer
William Jacobs	....	sound effects editor (as Bill Jacobs)
Ryan Juggler	....	sound effects editor
Greg Mauer	....	foley mixer
Jon Mete	....	sound effects editor
Byron Miller	....	sound designer
Peter O'Brien	....	sound effects editor
Susan Pusateri	....	foley walker
Paul Ratajczak	....	sound re-recording mixer
Stephen P. Robinson	....	sound effects editor (as Steve Robinson)
Shelley Roden	....	foley artist (as Shelley Smith)
Donnie Saylor	....	sound intern
Philip Stall	....	production sound mixer
Angie Stanghetti	....	adr recordist
Greg ten Bosch	....	first assistant sound editor
Marc Verboys	....	dialogue assistant
Brian Whitty	....	boom operator

Special Effects by
Tim Good	....	special effects coordinator

Stunts
Marco Bianco	....	stunts
Tom Farr	....	stunts
Steve Lucescu	....	stunts
Jessica Meyer	....	stunts: Jenny
David Stinson	....	stunts
Tye Tyukodi	....	stunt coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department
Richard Belleville	....	electrician (as Rick Belleville)
John Colavecchia	....	first assistant camera (as Johnny Colavecchia)
Adrian Courtenack	....	electrician
Cylvan Desrouleaux	....	second assistant camera
Tim Dixit	....	trainee assistant camera
Harper Forbes	....	key grip
Lennox Green	....	generator operator
Paul Hildebrand	....	grip
Dean Kopkov	....	grip
Josh Pelham	....	electrician
Patrick Robinson	....	gaffer
Yuri Sandler	....	best boy grip
Scott Shropshire	....	grip
Dave Suddaby	....	best boy electric (as David Suddaby)
Steve Wilkie	....	still photographer

Casting Department
Eleanor Lavender	....	extras casting

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Kim Harkness	....	assistant costume designer

Editorial Department
Milada Kovácová	....	negative cutter
Cathy Rait	....	color timer (as Cathy Raitt)
Catherine Rankin	....	negative cutter
Julia Wong	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Christopher Violette	....	music supervisor

Transportation Department
Gary Brennan	....	transportation captain
George McNeill	....	transportation coordinator

Other crew
Piyush Adhiya	....	assistant production coordinator
John 'Frenchie' Berger	....	gun wrangler
Bernie Burford	....	production coordinator
Jane Conway	....	animal wrangler
Jefferson Darrell	....	unit publicist
Patrick Davis	....	location production assistant
Matt Gatson	....	production controller
Rob Gray	....	location production assistant
Michael Jannetta	....	assistant location manager
Rachel Landry	....	script supervisor
Desiree Lidon	....	assistant: Jay Lowi
Lorna MacDougall	....	production assistant: Toronto
Darren Sacks	....	location manager
Katry Sertic	....	truck supervisor
Christina Wise	....	production coordinator

Production Companies

• Ben's Sister Productions
• Myriad Pictures
• Tapestry Films
• Unapix Entertainment Productions

Distributors

• Buena Vista Home Video (2003) (USA) (DVD)
• Dimension Films (UK)
• Egmont Entertainment (2002) (Finland) (VHS)
• Flashstar Home Vídeo (Brazil) (DVD)
• Flashstar Home Vídeo (Brazil) (VHS)
• Focus Film Facts (2002) (Netherlands) (DVD) (VHS) (rental)
• Highlight Film
• Net5 (2005) (Netherlands) (TV) (first national airing)
• Prime Time Entertainment (2002) (Netherlands) (DVD) (VHS) (retail)
• SND (France)
• SubTV (2007) (Finland) (TV)

Special Effects

• Good FX

Other Companies

• Apocalypse Sound  post-production sound
• Clare Walker Casting  casting
• Creative Cafe  post-production sound
• Ground Control Studios  post-production sound mixing
• Marc Conway's Dog Training  animal wrangling (as Marc Conway's Dog Training Ltd.)
• Power Blue Music  music recorded at
• Title House Digital  titles and opticals
• Toronto Film Studios  movie studio

Also Known As:

Conspiracy of Weeds (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for language, sexuality and violence.

Runtime:

100 min | UK:86 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Finland:K-15 | USA:R | Germany:16 | Indonesia:17/atas | Netherlands:12 | Portugal:M/16 | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Ben's Sister Productions

Trivia:

Rachael Leigh Cook's character, Jenny, smokes in the film. Cook is a non-smoker in real life and smoked prop cigarettes for the film.

Goofs:

Audio/visual unsynchronized: Jenny is using an Olympus SLR camera when doing Alan's portrait session. The shutter sound is not that of an Olympus which has a distinctive "ker-klug" sound. Though is is still a focal plane shutter and not a leaf shutter, it most assuredly is not the recorded sound of an Olympus focal plane shutter.

Quotes:

David: Do you beleive there's one right person for everyone?
Jenny: Absolutely

Movie Connections:

References Teen Wolf (1985)

Not as Bad as the first 15 Minutes Lead you to Believe

While I found this suspense-thriller to be rather mediocre in many ways, I am glad to say this film did manage to keep my attention for its hour and a half or so duration.

'Tangled' was a film I had never heard of before, but rented it on the basis of a decent cast (especially Rachael Leigh Cook) and the fact there was nothing else interesting at the store which I had not seen already. It has a very low budget feel to it, as if this could really have been a made for TV movie. It's basically a fairly typical teen film; light plot, suspect acting in places, and just about entertaining enough. The film in the most part is told in flashbacks and concerns a three way relationship between friends Jenny (Cook), Alan (Rhys-Meyers) and David (Hatosy) as told by David. The film starts with Jenny and David as close friends boardering on lovers, but things take a very different and sinister turn when Alan comes on the scene. The film was very, very similar to the 1995 film 'Fear' starring Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon. In this movie Rhys-Meyers essentially plays Wahlberg's character, Cook plays Witherspoon's character, Estelle Warren plays Alyssa Milano's character and Hatosy plays a similar role to that of Witherspoon's father in Fear, though his character is more jealous than overprotective. This is a little better than 'Fear' though.

There were a number of things I liked about the film. The cinematography was nice, and also varied - both warm and vibrant early in the film and dark and cold when things take a downward turn. The way in which the events are told through flashbacks of different times and using varying amonts of colour, though not particularly original (Usual Suspects, Traffic), does at least make it intersting and a little different from the rest of its market. I also liked the fact that Rachael Leigh Cook for once plays a relitively sexy character, rather than her usual 'cute but slightly dorky' ones which have become her trademark (She's all That, All I Wanna Do, Antitrust, etc). There were a few scenes where the director tries to be a little deeper and metaphorical (e.g. kite scene, sitting on car scene, and the story about the brothers), but I felt these scenes suffered from lack of subtlety, especially the kite scene. Still, I liked the fact he tried them.

I do have a number of critisisms though. Firstly, the plot can be a little slow at times which may not be to everyones tastes. Secondly, while the acting in the most part was OK, there were a few times (e.g. Cook's 'shocked and surprised' face in the first 10 minutes) which left me and the guys I was watching it with chuckling. Also the 'twist' ending is very predictable, and we had the whole second half of the movie figured out within the first twenty minutes. Still, theres at least a sense of contentment when things come together on screen how you predicted them.

Overall this is a mixed bag and not bad for a 1st time directorial effort - a mediocre but interesting suspense thriller which is worth a watch if you see it on TV.

Rating: 6/10