Elephant (2003)

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Rating: R
Release Date: Oct 24, 2003
Running Time: 81 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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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.
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rating 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… Continued