Stag (film)
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Director Gavin Wilding Duration Featured song Love Me Tonight Country United States | 5.6/10 IMDb Genre Action, Drama, Thriller Running time 1h 31m Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1997 (1997) Writer Pat Bermel, Jason Schombing (story), Evan Tylor Cast (Michael Barnes), (Ted), (Dan Kane), (Jon DiCapri) Similar movies The Collector , A Serbian Film , The Purge: Anarchy , Self/less , The Hunger Games: Catching Fire , Tagline The life of the party just died! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stag 1997 part 2 of 7
Stag is a 1997 American thriller film, directed by Gavin Wilding, made for HBO and later released theatrically after drawing large ratings. Stag features an ensemble cast including Ben Gazzara, Andrew McCarthy, Taylor Dayne, Mario Van Peebles, Lawrence Leritz, William McNamara, John Henson, Kevin Dillon, and Jerry Stiller. It was produced by Lions Gate Entertainment.
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Stag 1997 part 1 of 7
Plot
At Ken's bachelor party, a group of men are partying with two stripper sisters named Serena (Taylor Dayne) and Kelly (Jenny McShane). Serena steals one of the men and makes love to him, while a group of men party with her sister Kelly. Kelly accidentally falls onto the stone floor and dies. Another person, her bodyguard, also dies in an accident. Arriving and witnessing the accidental deaths of Kelly and her bodyguard, Serena begins crying and confronts a group of men, who give a weak apology.
Two of the men then kidnap Serena and hold her hostage upstairs. A group of men cover their tracks and eliminate the bodies of the two deceased people. A rescuer frees Serena, but he and Serena are kidnapped by their captors. He and Serena are later rescued. Grabbing the two guns in her hands, Serena shoots and murders her kidnappers.
The reason the wild party began was to turn the tables on Ken, who had always made others the subject of his pranks.
Cast
Release
Stag premiered on HBO in June 1997.
Reception
Brendan Kelly of Variety called it "an efficient psychological thriller" that "becomes a tad predictable". Nathan Rabin of The A.V. Club called it "stagey, badly written, and mind-numbingly predictable". TV Guide rated it 2/4 stars and called it "a sometimes gripping, sometimes frustrating suspense drama". Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called it "relentlessly obvious and tedious".
It has been compared to the 1998 film Very Bad Things.
References
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