Der zuckersüße Tod

Originaltitel: Jawbreaker

1999
12
1 Std. 18 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

5,7/10

30.221

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

3.491

350

Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart, and Julie Benz in Der zuckersüße Tod (1999)

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Drei der beliebtesten Mädchen an der Reagan High töten versehentlich die Ballkönigin mit einem Kieferbrecher, wenn eine Entführung schrecklich schief geht.Drei der beliebtesten Mädchen an der Reagan High töten versehentlich die Ballkönigin mit einem Kieferbrecher, wenn eine Entführung schrecklich schief geht.Drei der beliebtesten Mädchen an der Reagan High töten versehentlich die Ballkönigin mit einem Kieferbrecher, wenn eine Entführung schrecklich schief geht.

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

5,7/10

30.221

IHRE BEWERTUNG

BELIEBTHEIT

3.491

350

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

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'Jawbreaker' is not a complete success, but on a dark comedy level the film works

Jawbreaker;; There's always that group at rule the school. At Reagan High, it's the foursome, Courtney, Liz, Marcie and Julie. The plot is set in motion on the morning of Liz's birthday, when Courtney, Marcie and Julie break into her house, shove a jawbreaker in her mouth and lock her in the trunk. But their harmless prank goes horribly wrong when they discover Liz has choked on the jawbreaker. The rest of the running time involves the girls trying to cover up the murder and bribing a nerd to keep her mouth shut.

I am a fan of teen movies and black comedies. Assuming Jawbreaker falls into both of those genre's I was expecting to adore the film. The problem with 'Jawbreaker' lies in the fact that the conflict is set into motion within the first 5 minutes, leaving the rest of the film running of low gas. But it offers enough one-liners, laughs and style to make up for the flaws.

Performances are good around, and a keen sense of the bitchy high school girl stereotype is cleverly constructed here. After all, everybody has a Courtney in their life. She's the girl who loves to be feared, and MCGowen does a great job pulling her persona off.

3 from 4.

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21. Nov. 2006
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Writer/director Darren Stein originally intended to write a horror film. When he started writing the script, he based it on a group of girls he went to school with who would kidnap each other on their birthdays and thought, "What if that went horribly wrong?" In the process he eventually realized that he was actually writing a dark comedy.

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When Liz Purr is abducted, she has her hands tied in front of her and is still alive when put in the car trunk. At that point, she was perfectly capable of removing the tape from her mouth and spitting out the Jawbreaker before choking on it.

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Courtney: Okay, reality check. Liz is in the trunk of this car and she is dead. That is a sad, fucked up thing, but you are going to walk into that school and strut your shit down the hallway like everything is peachy *fucking* keen.