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Mood:
- Suspenseful
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Plot:
- Celebrity CultureDiscriminationMedia SatireSmall Town LifeTV ShowCrimesDishonestyLove and Romance more...
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Genres:
- DramaThrillerIndependent
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Time/Period:
- 90s
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Place:
- Small Town
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Praise:
- Prestigious AwardsSundance Festival Winner
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Style:
- Talky
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Public Access, 1993
English
USA
Profile of Public Access
The mood of Public Access is suspenseful. The plot centers around discrimination, a TV show, and media satire. It is a drama, independent, and thriller movie. Stylistically, Public Access is talky. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, in a small town. Public Access happens in the 1990s. The movie is known for being a Sundance Festival winner.
Summary of Public Access
Brewster is an idyllic little town with clean streets, green parks, a booming economy, and a friendly, content populace. Or so it seems...until one day, a mysterious stranger arrives. A seemingly congenial, clean-cut, and upstanding citizen himself, Whiley Pritcher (Ron Marquette) buys airtime at the local public access station, and puts on a show called "Our Town," during the Sunday family hour. Whiley poses one question to his call-in audience, "What's wrong with Brewster?"--a question that soon unearths the corrupt, insidious world that lies beneath the town's placid veneer.
The first feature film from Bryan Singer and Christopher McQuarrie, (the collaborators behind THE USUAL SUSPECTS), PUBLIC ACCESS is an ambitious, disturbing look at small town life. Like David Lynch's BLUE VELVET, Singer here attempts to reveal the dark, sinister side of an Anytown, USA. Working with a tight budget, a script he co-wrote in ten days and a cast of relative unknowns, Singer manages to construct an intriguing debut that introduces him as a major new talent.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | January 1993 |
| Runtime: | 90 min |
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as Whiley Pritcher
as Rachel
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