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Jailbait
| Actor(s): Mary Gross, Kevin Mundy, Matt Frewer, Mo Gaffney, Tim Garrick Director(s): Allan Moyle 2 |
Movie Details
| MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Questionable for Children, Sexual Situations Movie Release: 2000 DVD Release: 11/28/2000 Format: DVD Edition: Special Collection Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 34 mins Studio: Pm Home Video Total Copies: 2 Genres: Comedy, Satire, Teen Movie See Also: Jailbait! |
DVD Synopsis
A high school football player is accused of the statutory rape of his 16-year-old girlfriend in this made-for-MTV movie. TV's Matt Frewer stars. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide
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Editorial Review of DVD
Edward D. Wood Jr.'s first "mainstream" feature film -- as opposed to the autobiographical drama Glen or Glenda, which was made for the exploitation market -- is a fascinating work, but not for the usual reasons regarding one of Wood's movies. Oh, to be sure, there are signs of the cinematic ineptitude that audiences have come to expect from his later movies, such as Bride of the Monster or Plan Nine From Outer Space; but Jail Bait shows Wood working in a very different vein, trying to reach a general film audience with a simple, accessible story about crime and its repercussions.
Jail Bait was Wood's attempt to emulate the television series Dragnet. Contrary to the ad copy on the front of the DVD, the title refers not to a woman but to the pistol that the hapless protagonist Don Gregor (Clancey Malone) insists on carrying. The movie is a police procedural that tries hard in a couple of spots to recreate at least the tempo of Dragnet's methodical, low-key approach to its subject. Wood and co-author Alex Gordon do alright with the scenes for the cops and the hoods -- though they do tend to fall back on silly tough-guy lingo, dating to the 1930s -- and those sections of the movie could "pass" for any low-budget, competently made crime thriller of the period. It's when we come to Dolores Fuller and Herbert Rawlinson's scenes as Gregor's sister and father -- which contain all of the attempts at in-depth character development -- that we start to hear the beginning of the familiar Wood-ian patterns: Disconnected dialogue, completely artificial pauses and leaps in the conversation, and odd detail included in that conversation, all of which sounds more like bad radio acting than movie acting. Indeed, most of their scenes sound like dialogue from an under-rehearsed radio play. The DVD is the best presentation of Jail Bait since the day it opened, transferred from an exceptionally clean 35 mm source. The picture is superior to what was seen at any of the Ed Wood retrospectives of recent decades, and although the audio is a little low in volume, it pumps up cleanly to compensate, and the solo guitar music track by Hoyt Kurtin (originally recorded for Mesa of Lost Women) is very crisp in the mix. The movie is divided into ten chapters that are sufficient to break up the action, and there is a trailer included in direct sequence after the movie that assembles most of the best action sequences and most overheated scenes. The film starts up automatically, and the menu must be accessed manually at any time before the end of the movie. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide
Jail Bait was Wood's attempt to emulate the television series Dragnet. Contrary to the ad copy on the front of the DVD, the title refers not to a woman but to the pistol that the hapless protagonist Don Gregor (Clancey Malone) insists on carrying. The movie is a police procedural that tries hard in a couple of spots to recreate at least the tempo of Dragnet's methodical, low-key approach to its subject. Wood and co-author Alex Gordon do alright with the scenes for the cops and the hoods -- though they do tend to fall back on silly tough-guy lingo, dating to the 1930s -- and those sections of the movie could "pass" for any low-budget, competently made crime thriller of the period. It's when we come to Dolores Fuller and Herbert Rawlinson's scenes as Gregor's sister and father -- which contain all of the attempts at in-depth character development -- that we start to hear the beginning of the familiar Wood-ian patterns: Disconnected dialogue, completely artificial pauses and leaps in the conversation, and odd detail included in that conversation, all of which sounds more like bad radio acting than movie acting. Indeed, most of their scenes sound like dialogue from an under-rehearsed radio play. The DVD is the best presentation of Jail Bait since the day it opened, transferred from an exceptionally clean 35 mm source. The picture is superior to what was seen at any of the Ed Wood retrospectives of recent decades, and although the audio is a little low in volume, it pumps up cleanly to compensate, and the solo guitar music track by Hoyt Kurtin (originally recorded for Mesa of Lost Women) is very crisp in the mix. The movie is divided into ten chapters that are sufficient to break up the action, and there is a trailer included in direct sequence after the movie that assembles most of the best action sequences and most overheated scenes. The film starts up automatically, and the menu must be accessed manually at any time before the end of the movie. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide
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