Twelve

Name: Twelve
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: August 6, 2010
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 22
Cast: Chace Crawford, Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin

2010

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Hannover House | Release Date: August 6, 2010 | R

Starring: Chace Crawford, Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin

Summary: A young drug dealer watches as his high-rolling life is dismantled in the wake of his cousin's murder, which sees his best friend arrested for the crime.

Director: Joel Schumacher

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 93 min

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Kirk Honeycutt

Joel Schumacher's Twelve, the latest expose of self-indulgence among privileged teens, is sleek, giddy fun. Read full review

Movieline Michelle Orange

Over-narrated by Kiefer Sutherland in full "this is extremely important and also very, very cool" mode, from its first self-important minutes Twelve seems as if it can't possibly be serious. Would that it were not. Read full review

Lisa Schwarzbaum

Twelve ogles the lost boys and girls as they make their mistakes. But unlike the novel, the movie never really gets inside these kids, who aren't in the least all right. Read full review

Boxoffice Magazine Pam Grady

Unlike "The Lost Boys," there are no bloodsuckers in Twelve. Instead, it just sucks time: 98 minutes to be exact that you can never get back. Read full review

Robert Abele

Consider Twelve its own memory-retarding narcotic. Read full review

Stephen Holden

This 95-minute movie is so overstuffed with characters, it would take a whole television season to sort them out and give them any depth. And even then, these people have so little on their minds that 13 hours might not do the trick. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

"If you don't want something," Twelve informs us, "you've got nothing." Well, I wanted to watch a good movie. But Joel Schumacher's shallow teen drama gave me nothing, instead. Read full review

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[Anonymous]

Aug 7, 2010

Great movie with superb acting from the entire cast. A must see for the younger generation.

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pacbreaker

Aug 16, 2010

I found twelve to be a fun and interesting movie, I would have to say that those critics that score it poorly are not paying attention I've seen many movies that were billed as "must see" that were much worse. Give the movie a chance and you will be happily surprised...

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CoollyF

Mar 14, 2011

I haven't seen the movie yet; so I'm not going to critic on it. But I read the book, I believe it was beyond great. I also have to remind those who already knew and those who don't know that Nick Connelly was only 17 years old when he wrote the book. Thus, before you criticize the movie,I haven't seen the movie yet; so I'm not going to critic on it. But I read the book, I believe it was beyond great. I also have to remind those who already knew and those who don't know that Nick Connelly was only 17 years old when he wrote the book. Thus, before you criticize the movie, consider the age and the lack of experience of the author of the book. I'm waiting on Nextflix to send me the Blu-Ray, then I'll let you know my thoughts.… Expand

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shepardn

Dec 20, 2010

I think twelve was a great movie. Shows that a troubled teen can pull it together and do what is rite in the end. Although he has to learn it the hard way. Its movies like this that you can cuddle up to with a good girl and enjoy.

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mrcritic

Dec 29, 2010

Twelve may not be your perfect film, but it's sufficient enough to fill your film needs. The only standout roles were Chace Crawford, but anyone between 15 and 20 (even though I'm 11) will love it.

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LondonTruelove

Nov 10, 2010

It seems like a movie that just doesn't really go anywhere, there's no real plot, just about a drug dealer making his rounds in manhattan. Even so, I didn't really mind it, and I'd probably watch it again. If you're looking for a lot of action, this probably isn't your flick.

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oneniggo

Nov 17, 2019

With his 2010 film adaption of Nick McDonell’s Twelve, Joel Schumacher created a disaster fortunately not too many people had to endure as it only brought in half its budget of five million dollars. But why? While not being perfect, the novel is theoretically ideally suited for a motionWith his 2010 film adaption of Nick McDonell’s Twelve, Joel Schumacher created a disaster fortunately not too many people had to endure as it only brought in half its budget of five million dollars. But why? While not being perfect, the novel is theoretically ideally suited for a motion picture: On the one hand, it creates a unique atmosphere by dealing with drugs, sex and violence among wealthy teenagers from Manhattan’s Upper East Side. On the other hand, the plot is not too complicated to be told in two hours by means of leaving out several passages. But this challenges the creators to transmit their messages with all ways cinematography is able to, which is exactly what Schumacher and his film team failed at.
So I’m afraid we cannot really begin with the good but at least there are some aspects that are done ordinarily. Steven Fierberg’s camera work is okay and captures the scenes as it’s supposed to as well as the music by Harry Gregson-Williams is provided as a background. Though, both miss the chance to add some actual finesse to the film.
Most the time the sound also doesn’t attract any attention but at the final party the music is way too loud. As a consequence, you can hardly understand the dialogues there.
There are many characters, which often confused me during my reading, so I think this might be even worse when firstly watching the denser film. Most actors did a good job but of all Chace Crawford as the drug dealer White Mike having the most important role was one of the worst choices. Even the narrator in the film, whose annoying presence will be discussed later, describes him as „pale“, „all white“ and as a very scary person which his performance definitely isn’t. This calm, brown-haired guy can’t be White Mike. Nevertheless, Crawford doesn’t play terribly but he wasn’t the right choice.
All this still doesn’t make the film really bad. The problem is Jordan Melamed’s screenplay and the way Joel Schumacher put it in practice. Maybe they didn’t want to make a film only watched in winter or it was less expensive but that doesn’t justify at all removing the snowy setting the novel uses to create its cold, harassed, uncomfortable atmosphere. Besides, the party Chris throws for Upper East Side queen Sara Ludlow is at New Year’s Eve which enhances its significance. However, the most important problem is the narrator. It’s totally okay to introduce the characters and the setting by a narrator. Although there are better methods, it is better than just putting a text in the beginning, which even blockbusters like Star Wars do. But in Twelve, everything is told by the narrator. Why should you bother with a cinematic production when you can just read out entire text passages and use some meaningless footage to form the background? Apart from laziness, Schumacher probably tried to evade an R-rating which he didn’t even achieve. This can be supported by the fact that Chris’ aggressive brother Claude doesn’t buy a submachine Uzi gun in the film and the final scene is much less brutal than in the novel and owing to the music also less dramatic. This removes the shock effect from the book ending which is definitely questionable but despite the fact that Schumacher extended the end of the film, he cannot really persuade to have the better one.
On top of that, what is the worst way to tell a fictional crime? Yes, the mystery of the murder is solved right in the beginning.
Oh, have you already forgotten about the narrator? You won’t during the film. He explains nearly every scene and is the most annoying aspect of all. The voice sounds like the voice-over of a private TV documentary and is even worse in the German synchronization. To sum up, let me use McDonell’s words:
„What in a damn **** for a niz!“… Expand

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