Actors: James Marsden, Katie Holmes, Nick Stahl, Steve Railsback, Bruce Greenwood, William Sadler
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Disturbing Behavior
DISTURBING BEHAVIOR was directed by David Nutter in 1998.
The Clark family has just arrived in Cradle Bay. During his first day at Cradle Bay High School, Steve Clark makes the acquaintance of Gavin Strick, a teenager who helps him to form an opinion about the different cliques of the school. The strangest of these groups is The Blue Ribbons constituted of model students. Gavin is almost convinced that they are all hypnotized in some way.
At first skeptical, Steve changes his mind the day Gavin becomes himself a Blue Ribbon. In the company of his friend Rachel, Steve will investigate the career of Edgar Caldicott, the school doctor, and finally discover that Caldicott is making neurological experiments on students with the hope to erase in them their peculiar personalities and make them like their parents would like them to be : perfect, polite and studious.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Analysis of Disturbing Behavior
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Plot
Composition of Movie Actual chase scenes or violence - 10% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 60% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Medical Thriller?
Yes
Medical Plotlets:
- brainwashing (scrub hard!)
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) long straight
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- doctor
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
United States
Yes
Island?
Yes
Small town?
Yes
Misc setting
- scientific labs
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- touching of personal anatomy
- seeing breasts
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 2 (a little)
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
Unusual forms of death
- dropped from large heights
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
