When a group of college kids get together for a weekend of partying, they find themselves mixed up in a murderous plot. Having planned on a weekend of hard-core debauchery, the English students and their visiting American friends do not notice when a series of mindless murders and acts of terrorism are carried out around them.
Acting
Paul Bettany commits fully to unhinged Quentin.
Direction
William Marsh's music video aesthetic gone wrong.
Director
William Marsh
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Martin Amis hated this adaptation so much he reportedly disowned it. The feeling was mutual with audiences.
This bombed spectacularly in 2000, becoming a cautionary tale about adapting literary satire without the author's voice.
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