#Eddie haskell syndrome movie#

These kids all have Eddie Haskell syndrome, showing saccharine mildness toward the grownups. This murder could have been completely avoided if just one of them acted but most of them were completely blind to how bad things were getting with their children.” Bullshit. Another of the numerous articles about the film says that the real Ali and Heather, in their first year of high school, were hookers working for a pimp/cop.Ī reviewer named Wesley says, “…the parents of these teens were completely non-responsive to all the warning signs of their children’s behavior. (My friend, of course, denied being anything other than a genuine heterosexual who just needed some walking-around money.) And it wasn’t only the boys who were up to no good. One of his johns even bought him a motorbike. I once knew a Vietnam vet, from a typical middle-class “good” family, who as a teenager used to hang out at the Alamo and charge grown men $100 for the privilege of sucking him off.

There’s no doubt that kids do this kind of stuff. They posed as a gay couple and they would go to a gay club and hustle gays.” The director said in a print interview, “Bobby and Marty were such a couple of knuckleheads, they had all these things going on. (Actually, the most unbelievable thing about this film is that it won a couple of awards.)īasically, it’s the story of two friends, Marty the surfer and Bobby the bully, who has kept Marty in sado-masochistic crypto-homosexual thrall, brutalizing and humiliating him, since they were kids. It’s based on a real event, the murder of Bobby Kent by what came to be called the Broward County Seven, with an amount of verisimilitude that is debated by critics. Why anybody thought it belonged on the screen, except as a vehicle for some crude camera angles featuring crotches and butts, is a puzzling question. Apparently the whole story is in a book by investigative reporter Jim Schutze.

#Eddie haskell syndrome movie#

But it’s a movie that really didn’t need to be made.

Well, I watched this thing because Michael Pitt is in it.