Idle Hands

  • Comedy
  • Horror
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
4/30/1999
92
R

The touching story of a boy and his right hand.

Anton is a cheerful but exceedingly non-ambitious 17-year-old stoner who lives to stay buzzed, watch TV, and moon over Molly, the beautiful girl who lives next door. However, it turns out that the old cliché about idle hands being the devil's playground has a kernel of truth after all.

Revenue:
$4,152,230
Budget:
$25,000,000

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  • Wuchak

    Pot-soaked teens in SoCal harassed by a possessed hand

    A town is plagued by a series of killings as a group of unambitious high schoolers (Devon Sawa, Seth Green and Elden Henson) trace the problem to the uncontrollable appendage of one of their own.

    Idle Hands (1999) is a manic horror comedy with macabre humor and lots o gore, influenced by bits from flicks like Evil Dead 2, Re-Animator and An American Werewolf in London. Its often legitimately funny because it takes situations or lines and goes one step further for an over-the-top effect, similar to There's Something About Mary from the year before, just with a totally different milieu.

    Jessica Alba turned 17 one week into shooting in 1998 and is a highlight. Meanwhile Viv...

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