When teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan and troubled bad girl Suzie Toller accuse guidance counselor Sam Lombardo of rape, he's suspended by the school, rejected by the town, and fighting to get his life back. One cop suspects conspiracy, but nothing is what it seems...
[It's got] Neve Campbell and Denise Richards making out, all the plot twists and double-crossing of a James Ellroy novel, Neve Campbell and Denise Richards having a catfight in a swimming pool and Bill Murray as a sleazy neck-brace-wearing lawyer.
– Tom Nawrocki,
Rolling Stone,
14 Aug 2007
fresh:
Sly, torrid and original, pic is certain to shake up an otherwise complacent marketplace.
– Leonard Klady,
Variety,
11 Feb 2008
rotten:
What I'm supposed to find 'satisfying' is predicated on the idea that almost everyone in the world is trash.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
11 Feb 2008
fresh:
The movie is as tawdry as someone else's lingerie, yet not without a certain prurient watchability.