by Yazmin Ghonaim

VERY BAD THINGS Peter Berg (1998) Making his directorial debut with Very Bad Things, writer-director Peter Berg creates a dark comedy in which situations are resolved in the worst possible ways. The story revolves around Kyle Fisher (Jon Favreau) and Laura Garrety (Cameron Diaz), who are planning their wedding. The groom's friends (played by Christian Slater, Daniel Stern, Jeremy Piven and Leland Orser) decide to throw a bachelor party in Las Vegas, hiring a prostitute as a surprise for the evening. While the characters are shown getting drugged and drunk in their hotel suite, one takes the prostitute into the restroom where they begin to have sex and where a sudden twist of events launches the rest of the story into repeated attempts of covering up an unintentional murder. Alluding more to the spectator's morbid side than to a genuine curiousity (of how the conflicts will be resolved), Very Bad Things relies exclusively on its capacity to shock (due to its graphic nature), and to be utterly "unpolitically correct" by building its comedy from the practical immorality of its characters. In an interview, Berg states: "I was becoming frustrated with how unprovocative movies are today. It was rare that I'd go to a film and feel anything... [so] I tried to make a film that made audiences feel legitimately threatened."		DVD Music Books Search by keywords:
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