An unhinged office worker who planned to go on a shooting spree at his workplace struggles with his newfound status as a hero after he ends up stopping a shooting spree instead.
Acting
Slater's twitchy desperation is genuinely unsettling.
Direction
Cappello's tonal whiplash between comedy and horror.
Writing
The talking fish hallucination that might not be one.
Director
Frank A. Cappello
Christian Slater
Bob Maconel
Elisha Cuthbert
Venessa Parks
William H. Macy
Gene Shelby
Sascha Knopf
Paula Metzler
John Gulager
Goldie / Maurice Gregory
Jamison Jones
Scott Harper
Michael DeLuise
Detective Soreson
Anzu Lawson
Nancy Felt
Sewell Whitney
Derrick Miles
Randolph Mantooth
Dr. Willis
Frankie Thorn
Jessica Light
Tina D'Marco
Nurse
Livia Treviño
Shelby's Secretary
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in 15 days for under a million dollars. The aquarium sequences were filmed at Long Beach's actual Aquarium of the Pacific during off-hours.
Cappello originally wrote this in 1999, pre-Columbine saturation. By 2007, distributors called it 'too soon'—then sat on it until it became 'too late' for relevance.
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