Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4649 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-04-05
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.77:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 98 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Spun is an unclassifiable ensemble piece, intentionally bleached of soulfulness and high on visual invention and comic depravity. Set in northern Los Angeles, where meth freaks lurch from one motel room to another in search of companionship and a score, the film stars Jason Schwartzman as Ross, whose life is rapidly disintegrating. Fielding phone messages from his mother and trying in vain to reach an old girlfriend, Ross spends most of his time on a feverish circuit with the half-mad Cookie (Mena Suvari) and Nikki (Brittany Murphy), the dangerously paranoid Spider Mike (John Leguizamo), and a macho drugmaker called the Cook (Mickey Rourke). Director Jonas Akerlund's story is non-existent, but then again Spun is driven by the blurry, hellish energy of a life lived on speed. An obvious influence is Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream, but Akerlund is interested in nightmarish set pieces than tiny horrors of misfired nerve endings and ravaged time. --Tom Keogh

Synopsis
Ross (Jason Schwartzman) is an addict badly in need of some speed. A visit to his dealer, Spider Mike's (John Leguizamo)--where fellow "tweakers" Nikki (Brittany Murphy)--a stripper, Frisbee (Patrick Fugit)--a metalhead, and Cookie (Mena Suvari)--Mike's girlfriend--turns into an odyssey, though, when Mike can't find his stash. Nikki tells Ross that her boyfriend, crazed cowboy The Cook (Mickey Rourke), can supply whatever he needs. The two of them visit The Cook at his motel lab, and Ross quickly gets his fix. Ross, however, is put into service as The Cook's errand boy and chauffeur, with only brief periods of freedom to check up on the stripper girlfriend he left tied to his bed back at his apartment. Ross' three days without sleep reaches a feverish head when it becomes evident that two cops (Peter Stormare and Alexis Arquette) have raided Spider Mike's pad in search of The Cook.
This relentlessly crude and graphic feature from Swedish music video director Jonas Ackerlund is not for the faint-of-heart. Lightning-fast edits, sexually explicit animation, Farrelly-Brothers-level rudeness, and a pervasive sense of nihilism swirl together to create a morally empty Los Angeles of seedy housing and strip joints inhabited by corrupt cops and thrill-seeking lawbreakers. Set to a memorable score by Billy Corgan, Mickey Rourke's memorable turn paves the way for a game young cast.

Customer Reviews

RUBBISH!
Spun [2003]
This film is absolute rubbish!! A vey poor attempt at being hard hitting and funny at the same time! It comes no where near being either, my advice???? .................. Don't bother!!

Cover image doesn't match dvd you will receive
The cover image clearly shows the Uncensored Director's Cut, and I bought this expecting that version. However, I received the vanilla edition, which with the p+p, I could have purchased elsewhere for less.

Is the cover image a mistake, or is this a clever ploy to sell more of the vanilla version, by false advertising? Come on Amazon, display the right cover image so that others aren't duped into buying the wrong dvd version!

Ugly film, about ugly people.
This film has nothing to recommend it. It perhaps shows how sad and boring those who think drug taking is cool and interesting are. There is no drama and fails to be comic throughout. There isnt even an interesting soundtrack. All in all a pointless waste of time and money.

I guarantee that you will be disappointed by this film. If you are waivering, then ask yourself why there are so many cheap copies available.