11:14

Plot synopsis:
The film involves a series of interconnected events that converge around two car-related accidents at 11:14 p.m. The connections between the events are not apparent at first, but are gradually revealed by a series of progressively receding flashbacks:
=== Part 1 ===
11:13 - 11:33
Jack (Henry Thomas), who has been drinking, is seen driving along a road at night talking on his cell phone. The clock on the dashboard reads 11:14 p.m. Suddenly, as he drives under an overpass, something smashes across the windshield, causing him to skid off the road. He stops by a deer crossing sign and gets out to inspect the damage, and finds a human body with a badly mutilated face lying close to his car. When he sees another car approaching, he panics and drags the body out of sight. The car pulls up next to him, and the driver, Norma (Barbara Hershey), assumes that he hit a deer. She offers to call the police over Jack's protests, insisting that it is no trouble because she has a new cell phone that she "never uses" and because she is friends with the Chief of Police. Norma offers Jack a ride to her house to wait for the police, but he declines. When she drives off, Jack decides to hide the body in the trunk of his car. He gets back into the car to pull away, but a police officer pulls up behind him. Officer Hannagan (Clark Gregg) speaks with Jack and, noting his odd behavior, asks him if he would submit to a breathalyzer test. Jack requests a sobriety test instead, which Hannagan administers, getting him to recite the alphabet in reverse from Z to A. When the officer checks with dispatch, he finds that Jack's license has been revoked for driving under the influence. Hannagan tells Jack that he is under arrest and that his car will be impounded. When he finds the body in the trunk, Hannagan handcuffs Jack with a cable tie and tells the two people already in the back of the cruiser, Duffy (Shawn Hatosy) and Buzzy (Hilary Swank), to move over so that Jack will fit. While Hannagan argues with Buzzy, who refuses to move over, Jack is able to pull clippers out of his pocket, cut the cable tie, and escape. Hannagan pursues, leaving the cruiser door open, and Duffy and Buzzy also escape. Jack runs across a property with security lights and a dog, causing the owner, Norma, to come out. She is obviously upset and is looking for her husband Frank (Patrick Swayze) because she just received a phone call that their daughter, Cheri (Rachael Leigh Cook), was killed in a hit-and-run accident. Hannagan catches up to Jack at this point, and Norma angrily strikes Jack with a flashlight, assuming that he is responsible for her daughter's death. He flees again, into the cemetery where he trips over a bowling ball and is again taken into custody.
=== Part 2 ===
11:09 - 11:29
Teenagers Tim (Stark Sands), Mark (Colin Hanks) and Eddie (Ben Foster) are driving around causing trouble by throwing things out of the windows of Mark's van (which actually belongs to Mark's mother), including a jelly donut (which hits an oncoming car) and a book they have set on fire. Mark, distracted by Eddie urinating out the van's window, runs into and kills Cheri, who was crossing the road while on her cell phone. They stop, but flee the scene when Duffy comes toward the van with a gun. As Duffy fires on the retreating van, Tim realizes that the accident also caused the van's window to snap shut, cutting off Eddie's penis. Eddie insists that they all go back to the site of the crash because he doesn't want to live without his penis; feeling sorry for Eddie, Tim volunteers to go back in an effort to find the penis. Tim is accosted by the paramedics, Leon (Jason Segel) and Kevin (Rick Gomez) at the scene, but manages to escape and get the severed penis back to Eddie.
=== Part 3 ===
11:04 - 11:24
Frank is walking his dog late at night and discovers his daughter's (Cheri's) car keys next to the dead body of Aaron (Blake Heron) in the cemetery. Thinking his daughter is responsible for the death, Frank packs the body in the trunk of Aaron's car, accidentally locking the keys in with the body. He uses a rock to break a window and get into the car, then drives to a bridge. He has to hide from a car driven by Duffy that passes by, but then disposes of the body by dropping it over the side of the bridge, where it lands on Jack's car (as seen at the start of the film). His dog runs off with the blood-soaked jacket. He chases the dog, eventually catching it. He sees the burning book that the teenagers threw on the sidewalk, and uses it to set his jacket on fire. His wife, Norma, sees him and gives him a ride home, where she sends him out to look for the deer that Jack supposedly hit.
=== Part 4 ===
10:59 - 11:19
Buzzy is working at a convenience store late at night. Her friend and co-worker Duffy arrives and they begin discussing Cheri's pregnancy and money needed for an abortion. Mark and Eddie arrive after the store is closed but Duffy lets them come in. They are there to buy items to throw out the van windows. After they leave, Duffy tells Buzzy his plan to steal from the store the $500 required to pay for the abortion. Cheri arrives and she and Duffy go into the cooler. Meanwhile Buzzy is playing around with Duffy's revolver (the one he plans to use to rob the store) and she accidentally shoots a bullet through a glass door of a refrigerator, barely missing Duffy and Cheri. Cheri leaves and Duffy asks Buzzy to allow him to steal the money from the convenience store's cash register. Buzzy objects, fearful of losing her job, but relents, while insisting that Duffy shoot her in the arm to make it look like an authentic robbery. He shoots her in the arm and then dials 9-1-1 for her, leaving while she is on the phone. Duffy looks for his keys, barely escaping the police who are arriving more quickly than he thought they would. While driving away, he passes by Aaron's car, where Frank has parked it preparing to dispose of Aaron's body. Duffy then sees Cheri parked and tells her he got the money for her abortion. When she gets out of her car, he witnesses the teenagers' van knocking down and killing Cheri, and he shoots at the teenagers. He is then arrested by Officer Hannagan for shooting at the van and for the store robbery, based on the description someone phoned in (later revealed to be Cheri). Buzzy is arrested as an accomplice when she refuses to identify Duffy and admits to conspiring with him.
=== Part 5 ===
10:54 - 11:14
Cheri leaves her house to have sex with Aaron at the cemetery. Aaron is reclining against a tombstone that has a stone angel on top. The angel's neck is damaged and the heavy stone head falls onto Aaron's face, killing him instantly and mutilating his face. Cheri runs away from the scene, not realizing that she has dropped the set of keys that Frank found in the earlier scene. Cheri borrows her father's car and goes to the convenience store to get Duffy's bowling ball, intending to replace the angel head with the bowling ball and implicate Duffy as killing Aaron. As she drives away from the store, she sees the shooting and reports a description of Duffy to the police. When Cheri arrives back at the cemetery, she drops the bowling ball when she sees that Aaron's body is gone. She tries to leave, but her car is again having trouble starting. Her cell phone rings, and she begins talking to Jack. This is the phone conversation the movie begins with, continued to inform the viewer that Cheri's "pregnancy" is actually a scam to get money from both Duffy and Aaron, so that Cheri and Jack can leave town together with the money. In the midst of the call, Duffy calls out Cheri's name from across the street to tell her that he got the $500 she wanted him to get. Cheri hangs up quickly, and while she is crossing the street, the cell phone rings again, and, distracted, she stops in the middle of the road, where she is hit by the van containing Mark, Tim, and Eddie. The camera pans to Cheri's cell phone, which reads 11:14 p.m.

Tags: mystery, violence, comedy, murder, flashback

Review:
It's actually 5 stories that all take place in a small town in middle America at around 11pm on a random night.Characters keep running into each other and bad bad things happen, but the stories are all strung together in really clever, often darkly funny ways.
We haven't seen Crash, but it looks like we should, and while I thought that 11:14 was not quite as terrific as Memento, I felt it was definitely in the running with it.I came to IMDb to see what else this guy, Greg Marcks, has done and was surprised to see that the only other entry is a 19 minute short film.
We see the accident, which occurs at 11:14pm, from different perspectives, as the puzzle slowly comes together.Sure, the story works a lot on coincidence, but it's still a great build up and interesting ending, despite it being somewhat of a let-down.The very black humour includes two sections which might just be some of the most cringing moments for men in cinema history  one of them in particular had me cowering fear.Good performances from Patrick Swayze and Hilary Swank make this a good cinematic treat..
Patrick Swayze utilizes his intensity and tendency towards the dramatic to comedically portray the world's most overprotective Father, while Rachael Leigh Cook's character, Cheri, wreaks havoc on Middelton, Anywhere, USA.The film opens with a car crash, a botched arrest and a few nasty head injuries that set up the film beautifully.
The movie tells us the partial stories of each of the parts involved, how the actions of each of them lead to what happens at the beginning and end of the film.
The opening story involves a roadkill (which is not his fault), second involves the decapitation of a penis and another roadkill (which is definitely the driver's fault), the third story involves getting rid of a body by the father of a hot girl, the fourth involves a robbery, the fifth revolves around a cheating hot girl.This film has Colin Hanks, Rachael Leigh Cook, Hilary Swank, Patrick Swayze, Jason Segel ('How I Met Your Mother', he is totally unrecognizable here) and several other good actors.
Good casting and acting help keep your attention as the sometimes mundane lives of all the characters come together one piece at a time over a 24 hour period.
Destined for sleeper status on DVD (and given a slightly higher profile by Hilary Swank's subsequent Oscar-winning performance in Million Dollar Baby), the audacious debut of writer-director Greg Marcks boasts a fantastic cast in a smartly constructed comedy/thriller, partly inspired by Blood Simple, in which a fatal traffic accident is examined and re-examined from multiple perspectives.
They include Rachael Leigh Cook (whose bad-girl behavior sets the chain of events in motion); Patrick Swayze and Barbara Hershey as her worried parents; Swank and Shawn Hatosy as would-be criminals with a dimwit plan; Henry Thomas as a drunk driver whose involvement is deeper than we realize; and Colin Hanks as one of three teenage vandals on a fast track to trouble.
But unlike Crash and Babel, 11:14 is more of a dark comedy/ thriller-noir then a drama per se.Unfortunately, the plot isn't that interesting and in the end the film comes trough as a bit pointless.
Perhaps then, it is fitting that newcomer-director Greg Marcks, who's only previous work was a short film about a man who reads to cigar-rollers, via radio, has created a tremendously entertaining if, at times, rather gruesome tale about five intertwining stories revolving around a couple of car crashes at 11:14pm.Story one involves a young man who, obviously after intoxicating himself, attempts to drive himself home when, low and behold he hits what appeared to be a dear.
Good movie.I agree with most other comments, kind of a wild roller-coaster of bad things happening.A bit disappointing ending however, the movie basically tells the story of 30 minutes around 11:14 in 90 minutes.
However, after a little over an hour in the movie the story is clear already...Instead of preparing you for an interesting ending, the director decided to keep telling the by-now-very-obvious story for the kind of people that usually miss half the film by getting beer popcorn, talking or other reasons..This movie is worth the money nonetheless: Good fun to watch..
Marcks had me so taken by trying to figure out what answer lay beneath the intersecting stories of these desperate small-town idiots that part of the entertainment intended through shock value and perverse turns of events never sunk in.The film begins with the character played by Henry Thomas (the kid from "E.T.") driving drunk and out of nowhere hitting someone at exactly 11:14 and then panicking because the police are coming and he has a drunk driving record.
The sheer ridiculousness of the behavior of some of these senseless small-town characters offers an entertainment all its own, but the film is so convincingly serious that what's coming next commands more of our attention than letting it actually soak in that Ben Foster's character's penis is lying on the street somewhere.However, credit to Marcks for making a film that rounded up a killer cast of vets and up- and-comers from Hilary Swank, Patrick Swayze and Barbara Hershey to Ben Foster, Colin Hanks, Rachael Leigh Cook and Jason Segel.
The film is like pulp fiction in were the story is all mixed around and you see the events that unfold from different perspectives.Every one does a great job in the movie.
The idea that 5 different stories converge in one is not a new one, but it works pretty good in this little, independent movie.
But the characters are all so despicable, you don't really want to know what happens to them.I love movies like "Crash" and "Magnolia", because while they do have lots of story lines that are crosscut across each other, they connect on a thematic level.
After I watched this adventure for the first time, I read through a batch of IMDb reviews, and was amazed at the variation of opinions on this movie, which in itself is not a bad thing; few films can please everyone.
I call this film an "adventure" because it moves, every second, every minute, and if you give yourself to it, you're along for a major cinematic rush, a ride that starts when a drunken driver hits a body and the driver attempts to hide the evidence...the high rating is given simply because I was involved in the film from the initial moments, and stayed that way because of the outstanding ensemble work, the dedication to dazzle the viewer with plot twist after plot twist, weaving threads that will somehow come together.I know this isn't Citizen Kane or Tokyo Story or Lawrence of Arabia--it's not important in any way, except as a thriller, and I was thrilled with a movie without attitude, without silly violence (eyeballs popping for the fun of it, that sort of thing), without an agenda.
Henry Thomas puts his E.T. days far behind him as a drunk driver, Colin Hanks displays some of the convincing talent that made his dad a star, and Ben Foster has one of those outlandish/OTT roles (like the one in HOSTAGE) before he hit the big time.I'm guessing this is a 'love it or hate it' type of film.
This twisted dark humored comedy reveals that things are unpredictable and strangely funny, but this can only work perfectly if 1) you've never seen so many films in your life or 2) you have a great sense of humor to all kinds of things no matter how painful or strange as it might seem.Henry Thomas, Rachael Leigh Cook, Hilary Swank, Shawn Hatosy, Ben Foster, Patrick Swayze, Colin Hanks, Barbara Hershey, Clark Gregg and others play the characters connected by strange accidents and they try to get out of the hurly-burly, making mistakes, making their worst to avoid problems and creating other problems.
with some nice performances by the already mentioned casting.It is the perfect film when you don't have patience to do anything, when things are not so great in your life or whatever, just watch it, it'll bring some help, some smiles and it's good to pass the time.
Must film for guys of age between 16-30.All characters are not full white are not full Grey.All resemble upon the circumstances.Good continuity.Only thing bother is music.Thats not up-to the mark for the film like this.could have been better.Must watch for bored people No second thought about giving 10/10.
Rather than offer an overview of the plot; needless to say lots of off the wall colourful "stuff" happens to a glut of disparate people ranging from Hilary Swank's store working Buzzy; to Patrick Swayze's concerned father named Frank; to teenager troublemakers Tim (Sands), Mark (Hanks) and Eddie (Foster); right through to the vampish Cheri (Cook).
On separate occasions, both guilt and immorality are elements or reactions born out of the coming across of the item of death, only evident when the body or the item of death has been 'successfully' dealt with, with one character being a little allured by it as they utilise the death to ruin someone else's life whereas another offering us a grossly varied state.The problem here is that these thematic elements are for display only, the film showing us Swayze standing there in his garage when it transpires he has gotten away with whatever foul narrative has wormed its way into his life; the three kids in the van haring along the road realising what they've done in hitting a pedestrian and one other character sitting in the back of a police car having been arrested, but cutting away and therefore onwards to the next wacky encounter it can cook up.
In fact, rarely is the film ever bothered with how the characters feel and what they think of the situation they've just created and the action they've just taken; these moments limited to fleeting reaction shots rather than drawn out observations.The tale that garnered most of my interest than the others is the story of an organised shop robbery by a young man whom is friends with the girl behind the till, the plan to take the money and feign that a theft has taken place in the shooting of the clerk making itself rapidly apparent.
But, unlike Memento, if you were to watch this movie in sequential order it would be like listening to that "boring person" telling a story at a party that had the potential of being interesting, but when they get to the end you want your hour and a half back.
Then, the scene featuring Duffy, Buzzy and gunfire is hilarious.Finally, the cemetery hook-up between Cheri and her boyfriend is a big laugh coming down the highway because we've already seen the puzzling outcome, and now we get to see how something so ridiculous could possibly happen.All good things to Greg Marcks, the young writer-director.
Hillary Swank was also good.The plot is simple and starts with an accident that occurs at 11:14pm and from then on the story unfolds in a wickedly brilliant way.9 out of 10..
I slight Swayze a bit as he tends to overplay his character, but his role as the harried father allows for some latitude.Greg Marcks has done an excellent job at writing and directing a tight, fast-paced, highly energetic film.
There's also the creative plot, used in movies like "Rashomon," "Vantage Point," and "Pulp Fiction." If you like those kinds of movies, you'll enjoy this.The performances were all great, although there was one or two lines throughout the film that were entirely laughable and dumb.
A good cast, including Patrick Swayze, Barbara Hershey, Hilary Swank, Henry Thomas and Clark Gregg star in "11:14," the story of a fatal car crash from five points of view.
this movie was really good to watch, i love these kind of movies where the characters go through different problems and then you can see that they all connect at some point, 11:14 is exactly like the films Babel and Crash, with a different story line of course, it was an O.K. cast Rachael Leigh Cook is my favorite actress, her role in this film was a good role, shes beautiful anyways and i like when she goes for different kinds of characters, shes a really talented actress.
It's an indie American film, made in 2003, which starts with a drunk-driver hitting, what he thinks is a deer, but it's a person (dead or alive before he hit it?), then while he's trying to stash the body in his boot, a police car rolls up, but the officer's got other problems to deal with, like two suspects in the backseat of the car, involved in a store robbery at the same time as the crash, and yet somehow there's a connection between the crash and the robbery, and a few other bizarre incidents all around 11:14 pm.Through four flashbacks, we see four events that happen the same time as the crash, all are inter-related, by event, or by some of the same characters, it's a jigsaw puzzle of a film, be patient, you'll be confused at first, by the time the end credits roll, you'll be grinning from ear to ear.
It's a dark, dangerous, delirious black comedy/thriller.Hilary Swank, Barbara Hershey, Henry Thomas, Patrick Swayze are the familiar faces to regular cinephiles, but there's some great performances too from the other morally dubious characters.Check this film out, it's a real blast!.
and that is only starters.The exceptional cast includes Hilary Swank (with braces), Patrick Swayze (with body padding), Barbara Hershey obsessed with opera, Rachel Leigh Cook as the promiscuous round robin girl, Henry Thomas as a drunk driver, Ben Foster as the genital loser, Blake Heron, Shawn Hatosy, Blake Heron, Stark Sands, Colin Hanks, and Gregg Clark as the revolving police officer who tries to keep up and make sense of the mess.The cinematography is beautifully handled by Shane Hurlbut who manages to keep the nighttime ambiance all centered on the 11:14 PM restrictions of the action.
This is a sleeper of a hit; really well written, superbly acted, and filled with funny/weird circumstances that take the audience on a fun ride through the lives of seemingly unrelated people.If you're tired of wading through the quagmire of movie sequels and TV show remakes masquerading as films, rent "11:14" and sit back and watch a really well crafted, thoughtful film.
Each new set of characters then goes some way to shed light on the questions you're left with from the previous story, until - finally - all loose ends are tied up by the time the credits roll.Plus it has an excellent cast.
It uses its time mechanic well, it has a good cast, and characters that you like to hate (love to hate would have made it 1 star better.) I had fun watching this movie and that's all that really matters..
Another non-linear story but an entertaining one!This is the kind of movie you should watch on DVD because you've often got to stop and go back.The plot is rather complicated .The story unfolds,develops,rolls back on itself,leaving the viewer panting for breath.You cannot summarize the story cause it would mean writing spoilers,but my favorite scene takes place in Hilary Swank's shop.There's a lot of black humor and a good use of songs (particularly "these boots are made for walking").It's 11.14 and you want to stay alive.Do not go out tonight,do not drive your car!.
The movie will keep you interested until the end.Good acting performance from everyone involved.
You very early in the movie begin to realize that everyone is somehow connected in one way or another to each other and that the time 11:14 is what ties them all, for better or for worse, together.Very well structured film that works beautifully by it putting, like in a chess game, all the people involved in Jack's car accident in the movie together by the same event.
Unfortunately the story isn't that special - actually it's just not interesting.It feels like the script is just not good enough to carry this movie and the decision to show events from the end to the beginning is done just to cover the weakness of the actual story.Acting is OK, but you won't be remembering this movie 10 minutes from watching it.Memento is so much better in every aspect..
there where some moments where it got better, but not enough.I liked Hilary Swank's roll in this movie it wasn't a big role but the character she made was funny.Patrick Swayze did not do as good as we are used from him but then, what can you expect for a movie this scale, the story was difficult to act on i think.
His character wasn't played out as it should have been.The rest of the cast did a good job.The story is portrayed in the same way as pulp fiction.
Hillary Swank stands out as a defeated store clerk, also including Barbara Hershey, Ben Foster, Henry Thomas, Jason Segel, Colin Hanks, Shawn Hatosy, and a shout out to the dog.The movie takes place in a small, sleepy, US town at around 11pm and follows the lives of several seemingly unrelated people as they intersect because of a car accident.
This is the first of several interconnected stories from that night taking place at 11:14.There are some great actors in this little movie.
It's an interconnected-path movie similar to films like Pulp Fiction and Crash.
The cast involves young people , but there are some stars too (Hilary Swank and Patrick Swayze) .The movie is worth watching once , when you don't know it's secrets .
The story is good, but not that great, the idea is not that original, but what makes this film worth seeing is that it is very well directed.11:14 is a thriller/mystery movie who goes forward and backward in time to focus on a series of unfortunate accidents that happen between 10:50 and 11:14 PM.