Elephant (2003)

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Rating: R

Release Date: Oct 24, 2003

Running Time: 81 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, John Robinson, Elias McConnell, Jordan Taylor, Carrie Finklea, Nicole Alyssa George, Brittany Mountain, Alicia Miles, Kristen Hicks

director: Gus van Sant

Elephant

A tale about high school violence that unfolds on an ordinary school day, inside an American high school, filled with schoolwork, football, gossip and socializing. For each of the students we meet, high school is a different experience: stimulating, friendly, traumatic, lonely, hard.

October 22, 2003

Don't write off Gus Van Sant's Elephant as arty jerk-off cinema just because it won the top film and directing prizes at the 2003 Cannes snobfest. Elephant, which details a high school shooting spree modeled on Columbine, is scarier than anything in The Texas Chainsaw MassacreBowling for Columbine) or splatter (Zero Day). The title, borrowed from Alan Clarke's 1989 BBC film about violence in Northern Ireland, refers to…