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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA TV program selects people at random to kill one another for fame and their freedom.A TV program selects people at random to kill one another for fame and their freedom.A TV program selects people at random to kill one another for fame and their freedom.
- Récompenses
- 3 victoires et 4 nominations au total
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- AnecdotesWriter/Director Daniel Minahan's childhood friend, Dawn Lagarto, is given a "Special Thanks" credit. He originally wrote the story using her name for the main character. When it came time to start filming the producers had legal concerns regarding the use of a real person's name, but actress Brooke Smith felt an affinity for the name and wanted to retain it for her character. Minahan called the real Dawn Lagarto and got her blessing to use the name. The real Dawn Lagarto is not an unwed mother, has never participated in a reality TV series, and has never killed anyone.
- GaffesThe truck Tony drives off with the baby in is a Ford Ranger (a mid-size truck). The stock footage of a chase from a helicopter shows a truck that is supposed to be Tony's, but is now a full-sized Chevy. Back in the close-ups, it's a Ford Ranger again.
- Citations
[After taking a movie audience hostage]
Dawn Lagarto: Bring my baby here or else innocent people are gonna die!
[Audience members applaud and cheer.]
Dawn Lagarto: That means YOU, ASSHOLES!
[Audience shuts up.]
- Crédits fousAfter the title credits, a warning appears "Due to the graphic nature of this program, viewer discretion is advised."
- Versions alternativesThe DVD version includes deleted scenes that are viewed seperately. They include:
- The reunion with Dawn's family is extended.
- A scene of Franklin refusing the radio/GPS rig and explaining why he lives in a lead-lined shack.
- A scene where Franklin is looking in the mirror and mentally preparing himself before he receives the note.
- Franklin's speech in the mall is extended.
- A scene with Connie's priest, where he explains in an interview that he's a fan of the show, that he recognized Connie's voice in the confessional, and that he hopes that she confesses for the two murders before she herself dies.
- 'Man-on-the-street' interviews.
- The 'real' ending, which we are told in the film that the footage was destroyed and then are presented a dramatization of the events. The 'real' ending is, when presented with the choice of killing one another, Jeff and Dawn put the guns down, run out of the theatre, were they meet a crowd of disgruntled fans. The fans give chase after them and, after catching them entering their SUV, begin beating them, presumably to death. This explains why, at the end of the film, Doria is proclaiming that she's been framed and why Jeff survived.
- An interview with Laura with Dawn's baby, where she renames the baby Dawn and says she's proud of her sister.
- A PSA from Doria about checking for testicular cancer.
- Bandes originalesMeet The Contenders
Written and Performed by Girls Against Boys
Published by Action Collar Music/EMI/Blackwood Music/BMI
Copyright 2000 Geffen Records;
Girls Against Boys appears courtesy of Geffen Records
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These days it is difficult to satirize reality TV and reality video because material like THE LITTLEST GROOM, THE AMAZING RACE, BOOT CAMP, SURVIVOR and BUMFIGHTS already exist.
SERIES 7: THE CONTENDERS is an ultra-efficient rendering of the imagined next step in reality programming in which "contenders" must kill in order to survive.
To their credit, the filmmakers never step outside the game itself.
Clever graphics, voice-overs and reality-style camera-work achieve a high level of illusion. The "contenders" themselves are well characterized and we get to understand the complexities that drive them.
As entertainment SERIES 7 is seductive and exciting. As satire it is sharp and black as pitch.
SERIES 7: THE CONTENDERS is an ultra-efficient rendering of the imagined next step in reality programming in which "contenders" must kill in order to survive.
To their credit, the filmmakers never step outside the game itself.
Clever graphics, voice-overs and reality-style camera-work achieve a high level of illusion. The "contenders" themselves are well characterized and we get to understand the complexities that drive them.
As entertainment SERIES 7 is seductive and exciting. As satire it is sharp and black as pitch.
- fertilecelluloid
- 23 déc. 2004
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Box-office
- Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 195 065 $US
- Week-end de sortie aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 28 844 $US
- 4 mars 2001
- Montant brut mondial
- 300 086 $US
- Durée1 heure 26 minutes
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- Mixage
- Rapport de forme
- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was Series 7: The Contenders (2001) officially released in Canada in English?
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