Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)

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CinemaSource

Studio: Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group Studio: Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group

Rating: R

Release Date: Sep 22, 2000

Running Time: 98 mins. (V)

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Jennifer Morrison, Matthew Davis, Hart Bochner, Joseph Lawrence, Anson Mount, Anthony Anderson, Eva Mendes, Michael Bacall, Jessica Cauffiel, Marco Hofschneider

director: John Ottman

Urban Legends: The Final Cut

During a contest to determine the best thesis film, student filmmakers at Alpine University are having an unusually hard time of it because someone is killing crew members. Among the student competitors are the son of a famous film mogul and Amy, whose thesis film is about the contemporary tall tales known as urban legends and who must unmask the killer before she too becomes an urban legend.

Morrison ("Stir of Echoes") never finds the right mix of vulnerability, naïvetÃ© and attitude to play the slasher flick damsel-in-distress-turned-heroine. (And she's never in any real peril.) Sorely missing are the outrageous performances that Rebecca Gayheart, Danielle Harris and Julian Richings provided in the original "Urban Legend" -- the supporting players, shackled to tired Hollywood clichÃƒÂ©s and a lackluster story, never get to exercise their dramatic talents.

Director

Amy Mayfield

Trevor

Professor Solomon

Graham Manning

Toby