Product: Fear (LASER DSIC, NOT DVD) (1996)
Rating: 3.0
Mean-spirited
"Fear" is a callow and mean-spirited movie that plays on the worst fears and paranoia of rich white men who have a blonde teenage daughter. In all likelihood and reality, their blonde teenage daughter is attending a secluded private school in which anorexia, drug abuse, and promiscuous sex are manifestations of privilege and power. In other words, the real danger to the purity and sanctity of their beloved girl is the world they have sheltered them in. However, this idea would be much too profound for any movie starring Mark Wahlberg and Reese Witherspoon, and so all that we're left are the collective fears of rich white men.I list them below:1.) Their pure and beautiful daughter has a slutty and out-of-control best friend who thinks that smoking, dating older homicidal men, and attending drug-infested rave parties is a good way a Wednesday night.2.) Their pure and beautiful daughter meets a dark and handsome stranger at a party, and is immediately drawn into his grip and power.3.) This dark and handsome stranger is poor. But much worse he's grammatically-challenged, and so these rich white men who've obviously all been educated at Hotchkiss and at Yale have absolutely no idea what he's saying.4.) Their pure and beautiful daughter loses her virginity to this dark and handsome stranger with grammar issues.5.) Their trophy wife starts liking this dark and handsome stranger.6.) This dark and handsome stranger is a violent psychopath who wants to break into their house, and rape their daughter and wife. (Actually, he's much worse: He's Mark Wahlberg, and he thinks he can sing and act.)