State's Evidence

Aroview: Six high school students make a suicide pact which goes nastily awry, in this prurient youth drama clearly influenced by cinema provocateurs Larry Clark and Gus Van Sant.

Middle-class ennui meets exploitation, the disturbing premise generates a compulsive first half, though it is under-capitalized in the film's denouement, and the heavy hand of the film makers is in evidence.

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