Spun [UMD for PSP] | ![Spun [UMD for PSP]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kVLJQMWuL._SL500_.jpg)
| Actors: Alexis Arquette, Larry Drake, Rob Halford, John Leguizamo, Mickey Rourke
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  129 reviews
Sales Rank: 140073
Format: Color, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Media: UMD for PSP
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 101 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.1 x 0.6
MPN: COLDU27528
UPC: 043396275287
EAN: 0043396275287
ASIN: B001EKP5AA
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Release Date: November 4, 2008
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Product Description
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 11/04/2008 Run time: 101 minutes Rating: Ur
Amazon.com
Spun is an unclassifiable ensemble piece, intentionally bleached of soulfulness and high on visual invention and comic depravity. Set in north Los Angeles, where meth freaks lurch from one motel room to another in search of companionship and a score, the film stars Jason Schwartzman as Ross, whose life is rapidly disintegrating. Fielding phone messages from his mother and trying in vain to reach an old girlfriend, Ross spends most of his time on a feverish circuit with the half-mad Cookie (Mena Suvari) and Nikki (Brittany Murphy), the dangerously paranoid Spider Mike (John Leguizamo), and a macho drugmaker called the Cook (Mickey Rourke). Director Jonas Akerlund's story is nonexistent, but then again Spun is driven by the blurry, hellish energy of a life lived on speed. An obvious influence is Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream, but Akerlund is interested in nightmarish set pieces than tiny horrors of misfired nerve endings and ravaged time. --Tom Keogh
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| Customer Reviews: Read 124 more reviews...
 The film is in my top 10 worst films of all time May 1, 2009
Visa (Tucson, AZ)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
How anyone can give this more than 1 star is beyond me. This is flat out terrible on so many levels. I feel sorry for anyone who buys this without watching it first. There isn't one redeeming quality in this film that is worth mentioning.
 Imagine if Picasso had a camcorder April 28, 2009
Jason (Backwater, Alabama)
Tweakers...abruptly...move, about a landscape, in choppy steps, observing and experiencing a KaLeIdOsCoPe of cartoonish COLORSSSSZZZZZ, visual spectacles, as ji-tt-er-y as possible------while desperately yearning for the next RAIL (is that a squirrel?) that helps them @V0!D the irritability and CRA.Sh.ing that occurs when the Grim Reaper's crystal meth-covered scythe knocks loudly (BANG! BANG!) at the door.
Most drug movies take the stereotypical way out. Pot joke here. Lame message or lesson there. With Spun, however, and the brilliant cast led by Mickey Rourke and Brittany Murphy, there is a bit more grease on the wheel, and the previous paragraph is the best I can do to truly represent the bizarre trip that Spun represents.
The movie follows Ross (Jason Schwartzman) - a borderline psychotic meth-head - over the course of three or four days, as he meanders his way throughout the drug world for each successively needed hit. Starting off at the house of a frantic small-time dealer named Spider Mike (John Lequizamo), whose paranoia and persona are a mix of battered ping-pong ball and horny schizophrenic, Ross meets Spider Mike's junkie girlfriend Cookie (Mena Suvari, who was obviously affected by the Gateway drug in American Beauty), and a fellow addict named Frisbee. When Spider Mike loses his stash - drugs'll do that to ya' - Ross moves up to the big leagues through Nikki (Murphy) - who personifies the drug-addicted stripper in nearly every role she plays; so, she nails the character - to The Cook (Rourke). The Cook is the coolest burnout ever, spewing out prophecy and poetry, both wise and ignorant, while convincing Ross to be his personal chauffer, paying him in small bags of drugs, like a dog being rewarded for playing fetch.
The rest is all about burning the candle at both ends, following addicts as day and night blends together in a hallucinatory cartoon of never-ending cravings. For the most part, the acting is superb. As mentioned, Rourke and Murphy are great, but Suvari is unconvincing, and a bit role from Eric Roberts is simply horrible. How far he has fallen from Best of the Best (and I am dead serious).
Ingeniously filmed, the blending of every imaginable artistic expression is there, but that's the strength as well as the weakness. At times the trip is quite distracting from the message. When it comes down to it, however, maybe that's the point? Maybe the skittish delivery is meant to be a pure depiction of the rambling affects of addiction. I enjoyed it for what it's worth, but not enough to become addicted; I just needed a taste.
 images January 14, 2009
Will-O-Mania (OH)
This film is filled with great short flashes of images...
Good detail in set dressing for this genre...
I suggest you just put on a good Pink Floyd album, and watch the movie in mute...
Be a casual viewer, and let the scenes, and images just cascade over your mind...
have fun...
Good job for a "Requiem for a Dream" clone August 15, 2008
Phillip Royer (San Francisco)
If it doesn't bother you when a director blatantly rips off another movie, take this one for a spin. It's Requiem for a Dream for the methamphetamine crowd. Not as good, of course, but it's a fun ride. Lots of quick edits, lots of Oliver Stone weird, sweaty, extreme close-ups, and absolutely no substance. It's just a week, or so, in the life of a bunch of speed freaks. Nothing more.
Billy Corgan contributes some good stuff, via Djali Zwan to the soundtrack and gets in a quick cameo. There are lots of cameos alongside the ensemble cast. Leguizamo's a little over the top, and Mena Suvari seemed a little stretched, but all in all not too bad. This is a much better role for Brittany Murphy than Love and Other Disasters. It's a fine line between over-acting and acting like you're freakin' on speed, so I'm not going to complain.
Spun is also surprisingly explicit in a number of ways: Leguizamo's masturbation scene wearing nothing but a sock; the shot of a little turd splashing in the toilet while Sorvino takes a dump; a girl tied to a bed for pretty much the length of the movie, naked and spread eagle with gaffer's tape over her mouth and eyes forced to listen to a skipping CD the whole time.
There is no moral to the story. Heck, there really isn't any story. It's just one big buzz with events. I don't mind that it's a Requiem for a Dream clone in style, not substance. I would imagine this kind of physical film making via power-edits would be difficult to do, and I think this first time director did a credible job.
 amazing July 20, 2008
J. Schwartz (Fresno)
amazing movie, it has to be one of the best drug cinema movies ever made.
the whole movie was intense from start to finish and just leaves you in a daze of amazement.
it's a great movie, if you like movies like Requiem for a Dream, you'll absolutely love Spun.
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