DISTURBING BEHAVIOR (1998)

 





















Directed by: David Nutter
Starring: James Marsden, Katie Holmes, Nick Stahl, Bruce Greenwood, William Sadler, Steve Railsback, Chad Donella, Tobias Mehler, Tygh Runyan, Katharine Isabelle, Ethan Embry, Terry David Mulligan, Susan Hogan, Peter LaCroix, Lynda Boyd, Jay Brazeau, A.J. Buckley, Crystal Cass, Derek Hamilton, David Paetkau, Daniella Evangelista, Julie Patzwald

84 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, drug content)

PLOT:

After the suicide of the teenager Allen Clark, his family decides to move from Chicago to the quiet Cradle Bay Island seeking a peaceful life for the siblings Steve and Lindsay Clark. When Steve joins the local high school, the outcast Gavin Strick befriends Steve and introduces his also rejected friend Rachel Wagner to the newcomer. Gavin exposes to Steve in the refectory the punks, the nerds and the different tribes of the school and he defends the weird theory that a sinister force changes the behavior of the annoyingly perfect "Blue Ribbons", a group of good students that wear identical jackets and gather in the Yogurt Shoppe. Further he says that he had witnessed the blue-ribbon Andy Efkin killing their schoolmate Mary Jo that is missing and the local Officer Cox covering the murder. Steve does not believe in Gavin's words, but when his friend is submitted to the treatment of Dr. Edgar Caldicott and immediately changes his behavior, joining the Blue Ribbons, Steve and Rachel decides to investigate the mystery discovering the dark secret of the perfect behavior.

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