Spun

Theatrical Release Date: 2003 03 14 (USA - Limited)

UPC: 043396011663

Studio: Columbia TriStar

MPAA Rating: NR   Contains:[Violence, Nudity, Strong Sexual Content, Adult Humor, Profanity, Substance Abuse]

Summary: A crystal-meth addict struggles to get his next fix as he obsesses over a recent breakup in Spun, a black-comic drug drama from music video director Jonas Akerlund. Rushmore's Jason Schwartzman stars as Ross, a young man who finds his maniacal world crumbling around him over the course of one long weekend. Spun chronicles Ross' travails as he tries to score from his regular dealer, Spider Mike (John Leguizamo), who realizes during Ross' visit that he's misplaced his stash. Indisposed by the frantic drug search, Spider Mike's girlfriend, Cookie (Mena Suvari), enlists Ross to pick up her stripper friend Nikki (Brittany Murphy) from work, and when he grudgingly agrees, he learns that Nikki might have an inside line on some of her own speed, courtesy of The Cook (Mickey Rourke). Meanwhile, two bumbling cops are onto Spider Mike's trail, and in his paranoid-delusional state, he sets out to find out who set him up. Spun premiered at the 2002 CineVegas Film Festival before securing berths at the Sundance, Toronto, and South by Southwest festivals. ~ Michael Hastings, Rovi

Category: Comedy

Features: ccDirector and writer's commentary
Producer and writer's commentary
Widescreen
Scene selections
Interactive menus
Music video
Deleted scenes
Theatrical trailer
TV spot
SPUN cook trailer

Spun

Format: DVD

Release Date: 07/22/2003

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: DS Dolby Surround (4.0), DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1

Runtime: 101 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
1. Start [18:56]
2. April [3:52]
3. Taco [1:28]
4. Doctor K [2:32]
5. "You Touch Her?" [2:08]
6. Shopping for Ingredients [2:56]
7. Liquor Store Stomp [2:45]
8. Porn in the USA [2:52]
9. Bust [2:48]
10. Star Garden [3:07]
11. The Lesbian Neighbor [1:08]
12. The Cook's Plan [1:21]
13. Playing Tag With Frisbee [1:15]
14. Hanging Up on the Call Girl [2:28]
15. Ross on a Cross [4:01]
16. High Times at Spider Mike's [5:27]
17. Wired for Action [6:50]
18. Busted [1:08]
19. Motel Barbeque [2:47]
20. Perp in a Porn Shop [:34]
21. Spun [5:26]
22. April Has Left the Building [2:15]
23. The Bus to Vegas [3:36]
24. Chillin' in the Back Room [4:27]
25. The Man [4:33]
26. Amy [1:27]
27. Dead Puppies Soliloquy [1:08]
28. "Always" [7:39]

Michael Hastings

Cult films are born, not made, and director Jonas Akerlund practices a not-so-blissful ignorance of this fact with Spun, a strenuously "extreme" addition to the amoral-hipsters-on-drugs genre. Boasting a cast of young, talented actors desperate to shake their boy- (or girl-) next-door images, Spun works so hard to be flip and arrogant, it doesn't even realize how square and sentimental it really is. Casting perennial nice guy Jason Schwartzman in the lead doesn't help: Though Akerlund ratchets up the "edginess" factor by showing him duct-tape a stripper's eyes and mouth shut, subsequent scenes revolve around his character's trite attempts at reconciliation with his ex-girlfriend, underscored by lots of would-be soulful brooding and Billy Corgan's plaintive acoustic score. Scenes with the ironically cast supporting actors (Debbie Harry, Mickey Rourke, and Eric Roberts among them) play like outtakes, with Akerlund indulging his performers' worst habits in tic-laden, over-edited sequences that last far longer than they should. It's as if the cast of MTV's The Real World was assigned to remake an Andy Warhol movie. ~ Michael Hastings, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Rob Halford  Actor 
Mark Boone, Jr.  Executive Producer 
Ash R. Shah  Executive Producer 
Fernando Sulichin  Producer 
Chris Hanley  Producer 
Bradford L. Schlei  Executive Producer 
Billy Corgan  Composer (Music Score) 
Kiki Miyake  Executive Producer 
Mark Mower  Executive Producer 
Timothy Wayne Peternel  Producer 
Danny Vinik  Producer 
Nicola Doring  Executive Producer 
Will De Los Santos  Screenwriter 
Jonas Ĺkerlund  Director 
Creighton Vero  Screenwriter 
Jason Schwartzman  Actor 
John Leguizamo  Actor 
Mena Suvari  Actor 
Patrick Fugit  Actor 
Brittany Murphy  Actor 
Mickey Rourke  Actor 
Peter Stormare  Actor 
Alexis Arquette  Actor 
Deborah Harry  Actor 
Eric Roberts  Actor 
Chloe Hunter  Actor 
Julia Mendoza  Actor 
Elisa Bocanegra  Actor 
Josh Peck  Actor 
Larry Drake  Actor 
Charlotte Ayanna  Actor 
Ron Jeremy  Actor 
Tony Kaye  Actor 

Country: USA