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Very Bad Things
Kyle Fisher has one last night to celebrate life as a single man before marrying Laura, so he sets out to Vegas with four of his best buddies. But a drug and alcohol filled night on the town with a stripper who goes all the way, turns into a cold night in the desert with shovels when the stripper goes all the way into a body bag after dying in their bathroom. And that's just the first of the bodies to pile up before Kyle can walk down the aisle...
1998 · Directed by Peter Berg · 100 min · Comedy · Crime · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 7 frames
Tagline
They've been bad. Very bad.
Plot
Kyle Fisher and Laura Garrety are a young suburbanite couple days away from their wedding. While Laura finalizes last-minute wedding details, Kyle is away in Las Vegas celebrating his bachelor party with four friends—real estate agent Robert Boyd, mechanic Charles Moore, and brothers Adam and Michael Berkow. As part of the festivities, Robert hires a stripper named Tina to entertain the men in their hotel room. Tina is accidentally killed while having rough sex with Michael in the bathroom. Robert convinces the guys that the best option is to stay quiet about it and bury her body in the desert. A security guard arrives to investigate the noise in the guys' room and discovers Tina's corpse. In desperation, Robert stabs the guard to death. He then convinces the group to dismember both bodies and bury them in the desert before returning home.
At the rehearsal dinner, Adam cracks under the pressure of guilt, leading to a confrontation with Michael outside and Adam threatening to turn him over to the police. As Michael leaves the dinner, he attempts to ram Adam's beloved minivan with his Jeep. Adam runs to protect his van but is crushed in the collision. In the hospital, Adam whispers something to his wife Lois before dying, as Robert looks on through a glass window.
Lois demands answers about what happened in Las Vegas and finds a written confession by Adam. Kyle makes up a story about Adam sleeping with a prostitute. Michael becomes despondent and wracked with guilt, and implies that he will turn himself in to the police. Robert, suspecting Lois does not believe them, kills her and frames Michael by luring him to Lois' house, where Michael is in turn killed. Robert concocts a story about a Michael/Lois/Adam love triangle when police interrogate him. After these events and being named a beneficiary of Adam and Lois's estate, Kyle breaks down and confesses the real story to Laura, who demands that her dream wedding proceed as planned.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Peter Berg
- Cinematography: David Hennings
- Edited by: Dan Lebental
- Music: Stewart Copeland
- Production design: Dina Lipton
- Produced by: Cindy Cowan, Joanna Johnson, Michael Schiffer, Diane Nabatoff
Cast
- Christian Slater as Robert Boyd
- Cameron Diaz as Laura Garrety
- Jon Favreau as Kyle Fisher
- Leland Orser as Charles Moore
- Jeremy Piven as Michael Berkow
- Daniel Stern as Adam Berkow
- Jeanne Tripplehorn as Lois Berkow
- Rob Brownstein as Man
- Blake Gibbons as Suit
- Tyler Cole Malinger as Timmy Berkow
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: VBT Productions, Initial Entertainment Group, Interscope Communications, Ballpark Productions Partnership
- Budget: $30,000,000
- Box office: $9,898,412
- Themes: hotel, prostitute, psychopath, cocaine, black humor, stag night, friends, murder, marijuana, wedding
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