Movie Information
Overall Rank: 15513
Average Rating: 2.3/4
# of Ratings: 13
Theatrical Release Date: 03/01/2008
Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 09/30/2008
Language: English
Genre: Crime, Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: J.P. Schaefer
Actors: Ursula Abbott, Mark Lindsay Chapman, Jeane Fournier, Molly Griffith, Jared Leto, Lindsay Lohan
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2/4
Matthew Brady - wrote on 08/11/2022
Jared Leto gained 67 pounds for the role, and due to the rapid weight gain, the side effects Leto experienced were gout, elevated cholesterol levels, back pain, and an uneven heartbeat. All of that just for a 18% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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2/4
Interesting, Somewhat Too Slow
Franz Patrick - wrote on 11/22/2008
This is an interesting movie because I didn’t like it but I’m somewhat recommending it. There’s a big sense of realism in this picture that made it that much more haunting. Jared Leto as Mark David Chapman, infamously known as John Lennon’s assassin, gives a borderline great performance not only because he gained about sixty pounds for the role; Leto really embodied Chapman’s twisted and fractured mind. The film gave possible reasons why Chapman did what he did, from J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye,” lack of genuine human connection, to alienation, but does not cross that line where the audiences are asked to feel for Chapman. Lindsay Lohan is pretty good here as Jude, who realizes that Chapman is more of stalker than a fanatic. Whenever she and Leto interact, the …
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