Venice Bound

1995
1h 39m

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In this darkly comic crime drama, three young strangers meet each other on Venice Beach and end up trying to rob an empty house. Seb is a small-time crook running from a New York gangster; L... Read allIn this darkly comic crime drama, three young strangers meet each other on Venice Beach and end up trying to rob an empty house. Seb is a small-time crook running from a New York gangster; Linus is a Boston stockbroker who has come to California to escape the boredom of his oppre... Read allIn this darkly comic crime drama, three young strangers meet each other on Venice Beach and end up trying to rob an empty house. Seb is a small-time crook running from a New York gangster; Linus is a Boston stockbroker who has come to California to escape the boredom of his oppressive job, and Spoon is confused. He was from Chicago, but recently woke up to find himsel... Read all

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8.2/10

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9/10

Wonderful, lo-fi Gen-X storytelling.

Seeing this film was a pleasant surprise at the Hamburg Film Festival back in '95-96. "Venice Bound" is just the type of U.S. indie film one used to expect at smaller European film festivals in the not too distant past before Hollywood co-opted the occasion in order to stage B-grade world-premieres of flashy feature films soon to be available on pay-per-view. Everything about this movie worked for me because it was so soaked in genre. The mid-nineties, post-Nirvana, pre-"Friends" lost generation, back when a well-meaning kid from the hood could still get mixed up with the mob if he got into money troubles. Back when it was o.k. to be a drifter, find yourself, or just be weird. More than specifics about the film, I remember being interested, engrossed, vindicated while watching it. Go see this flick if you ever find a VHS-copy somewhere (I haven't seen one, though). Go on, you'll like it.