Charades
A bunch of friends met up for a barbecue in a big house in L.A. They all have something in their past and/or are screwed-up. Arguments, fights, murders and some sex occur in this talky drama that very…
Charades
A bunch of friends met up for a barbecue in a big house in L.A. They all have something in their past and/or are screwed-up. Arguments, fights, murders and some sex occur in this talky drama that very slowly connects together. Barry is a down-and-out-guy who takes a job at the shipping department of Technoworks, a high-tech Yuppie company. He gets invited to the house of his boss Quinn, for a weekend afternoon barbecue with some of his boss's friends. The party gets weird, Barry plays a demented version of charades while standing on the picnic table, and the next door neighbor starts screaming racial slurs over the fence. When Jude, the widow of the ex-owner of Technoworks arrives, the plot thickens. Clues to past crimes are revealed, and the real reason for the party is discovered. But not before Barry beats the hell out of a tow-truck driver, screws the boss's wife and wreaks havok with the neighbor. And as the title suggests, before the day is over, we will discover who is the Felon, or perhaps the people at party are all, one way or another, Felons. —Anonymous After a street fight in a nice suburban neighborhood, we go back a few hours and learn more about the characters involved. Barry works in the shipping department of Technoworks, a high-tech company. He's invited to a barbecue that his boss Quinn is having. The party gets out of hand, Barry plays a demented version of charades while standing on a picnic table, and the next door neighbor, Targenville, screams obscenities over the fence. When Jude, the widow of the owner of Technoworks arrives, we learn of her husband's demise as part of a kidnapping scheme gone awry. As the film progresses, the question is who was the kidnapper, and how will they pay for the consequences of their crime. The information comes to us like a puzzle, echoing the film's namesake, and we are, by the end, able to, as Jude tells us, "Put the pieces together". —Stephen Eckelberry <eckinc@earthlink.net>
Charades
Drama,Mystery
Film Details
A bunch of friends met up for a barbecue in a big house in L.A. They all have something in their past and/or are screwed-up. Arguments, fights, murders and some sex occur in this talky drama that very slowly connects together.
Barry is a down-and-out-guy who takes a job at the shipping department of Technoworks, a high-tech Yuppie company. He gets invited to the house of his boss Quinn, for a weekend afternoon barbecue with some of his boss's friends. The party gets weird, Barry plays a demented version of charades while standing on the picnic table, and the next door neighbor starts screaming racial slurs over the fence.
When Jude, the widow of the ex-owner of Technoworks arrives, the plot thickens. Clues to past crimes are revealed, and the real reason for the party is discovered. But not before Barry beats the hell out of a tow-truck driver, screws the boss's wife and wreaks havok with the neighbor.
And as the title suggests, before the day is over, we will discover who is the Felon, or perhaps the people at party are all, one way or another, Felons. —Anonymous After a street fight in a nice suburban neighborhood, we go back a few hours and learn more about the characters involved. Barry works in the shipping department of Technoworks, a high-tech company.
He's invited to a barbecue that his boss Quinn is having. The party gets out of hand, Barry plays a demented version of charades while standing on a picnic table, and the next door neighbor, Targenville, screams obscenities over the fence. When Jude, the widow of the owner of Technoworks arrives, we learn of her husband's demise as part of a kidnapping scheme gone awry.
As the film progresses, the question is who was the kidnapper, and how will they pay for the consequences of their crime. The information comes to us like a puzzle, echoing the film's namesake, and we are, by the end, able to, as Jude tells us, "Put the pieces together". —Stephen Eckelberry <eckinc@earthlink.net>.