All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
Encyclopedia
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane is a 2006 American horror
-thriller film, although it has also been described as a slasher film
. Originally finished in 2006, the film premiered at a number of film festival
s throughout 2006 and 2007. Notable premieres include Toronto Film Festival, Sitges Film Festival, South by Southwest Film Festival
, and London FrightFest Film Festival
. It received a theatrical release in the United Kingdom
on February 15, 2008 and has yet to be released in the United States. It currently has no official release date.
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane is rated R for "strong disturbing violence, pervasive drug
and alcohol use, sexuality
/nudity
, and language
- all involving teens".
) is a popular outsider. Dylan (Adam Powell
) invites her to a party at his house and she accepts with the provision that her best friend, Emmet (Michael Welch), can attend also. At the party, Dylan and Emmet clash, and Emmet sits on the roof overlooking the pool watching Mandy. Dylan joins him and Emmet convinces him to jump from the roof to the pool to get Mandy's attention. Dylan jumps but misses, hitting his head on the edge of the pool and dies. Nine months later, Red (Aaron Himelstein
) is having a party at his father's ranch and has invited Mandy along. She obtains permission from her Aunt (Peyton Hayslip
) and agrees to go. Since Dylan's death she has refused to talk to Emmet. On the way to the ranch, the kids take a break at a railroad track, then steal a keg from a driver (Robert Earl Keen
) at a truck stop. When they arrive at the ranch Chloe (Whitney Able
) won't drive her car over the cattle grid and so with a shortage of seats Mandy and Bird (Edwin Hodge
) elect to walk to the ranch.
While walking, Bird asks to hold Mandy's hand, and she agrees. He then asks if he can kiss her, to which she agrees also, and he kisses her on the cheek, but is interrupted by Garth (Anson Mount
), the ranch hand. Once at the house, they begin drinking and playing games. Mandy is the only one to stay sober. After a disparaging remark, Jake (Luke Grimes
) walks out, followed by his girlfriend, Marlin (Melissa Price). They stop in a cattle shed, engage in oral sex, then Jake leaves. Marlin is hit in the jaw with the butt of a shotgun. The double-barrel is rammed down her throat, almost killing her. While looking for Marlin, Jake discovers her, barely alive, but is shot by the stranger, and Marlin finally dies. Bird, Mandy, Red, and Chloe are joined by Garth at the house after a stranger in Red's car fires fireworks at them on the porch. Bird chases the car, believing that Jake is the driver, but he encounters Emmet. During their fight, Emmet blinds Bird by cutting his eyes, chases him and finally stabs him to death. At the ranch, Garth stays over. Mandy falls asleep in the kitchen. Red and Chloe fall asleep on the couch. In the morning, Emmet is in the house (which no one knows), and Garth runs upstairs. Emmet goes downstairs and walks over to Mandy, stroking her hair. Garth runs back down to find Mandy still asleep with blood on her hair from Emmet, who also left a message on the fridge reading "Wake Up" with a bloody handprint. Garth and Mandy realize that they need to leave and go to wake up Red and Chloe.
As they prepare to leave, Emmet shoots Garth. Red and Chloe escape out the back and run to Chloe's car. There they discover the bodies of Jake and Marlin, after a brief kiss Red is shot. After running away, Chloe then discovers the body of Bird, as she runs back to the ranch. She is chased by Emmet driving her car. Mandy retrieves the keys to Garth's jeep, and the hunting knife Emmet used to kill Bird. She then sees Chloe running towards the ranch, pursued by Emmet. As Chloe runs up to Mandy, she stabs Chloe in the stomach. While Chloe bleeds out, Emmet and Mandy discuss their plan. Emmet has kept a journal giving the reason behind the killings since he and Mandy have previously agreed to a suicide pact. However, Mandy refuses to take the pills Emmet gives her. A brief chase ensues. They fight. Garth shoots Emmet and then as Emmet chases Mandy she fights him off, long enough to obtain a sharp object and kill him. Mandy then picks up a wounded Garth and heads to his truck and they drive off, Garth claimed Mandy as a "hero". A flashback then shows the group back at a railroad track, taking a break from the drive. They are all goofing off, and Mandy is seen balancing on the tracks, then looking to the camera with a knowing look.
(via their Dimension Films
label), but due to the failure of Grindhouse, among other horror films, The Weinstein Company sold the film to Senator Entertainment US. Senator, who at the time was setting up their own distribution company, later went out of business, and the film has been held in limbo with other unreleased projects since. At Comic-Con 2010, director Levine and star Heard appeared for a screening of the film, and said that release was finally forthcoming, though they did not say when or who would be handling the release. It has been number one on Bloody Disgusting
's list of the best unreleased horror films for the last four years.
Horror film
Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...
-thriller film, although it has also been described as a slasher film
Slasher film
A slasher film is a type of horror film typically involving a psychopathic killer stalking and killing a sequence of victims in a graphically violent manner, often with a cutting tool such as a knife or axe...
. Originally finished in 2006, the film premiered at a number of film festival
Film festival
A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...
s throughout 2006 and 2007. Notable premieres include Toronto Film Festival, Sitges Film Festival, South by Southwest Film Festival
South by Southwest
South by Southwest is an Austin, Texas based company dedicated to planning conferences, trade shows, festivals and other events. Their current roster of annual events include: SXSW Music, SXSW Film, SXSW Interactive, SXSWedu, and SXSWeco and take place every spring in Austin, Texas, United States...
, and London FrightFest Film Festival
London FrightFest Film Festival
FrightFest is an annual film festival held in central London over the August Bank Holiday weekend. The first event was held in the year 2000....
. It received a theatrical release in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
on February 15, 2008 and has yet to be released in the United States. It currently has no official release date.
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane is rated R for "strong disturbing violence, pervasive drug
Recreational drug use
Recreational drug use is the use of a drug, usually psychoactive, with the intention of creating or enhancing recreational experience. Such use is controversial, however, often being considered to be also drug abuse, and it is often illegal...
and alcohol use, sexuality
Human sexuality
Human sexuality is the awareness of gender differences, and the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses. Human sexuality can also be described as the way someone is sexually attracted to another person whether it is to opposite sexes , to the same sex , to either sexes , or not being...
/nudity
Nudity in film
Nudity in film is any presentation in motion pictures of people while naked or wearing less clothing than contemporary norms consider modest. Many actors and actresses have appeared nude, or exposing parts of their bodies or dressed in ways considered provocative by contemporary standards at some...
, and language
Profanity
Profanity is a show of disrespect, or a desecration or debasement of someone or something. Profanity can take the form of words, expressions, gestures, or other social behaviors that are socially constructed or interpreted as insulting, rude, vulgar, obscene, desecrating, or other forms.The...
- all involving teens".
Plot
At a Texas High school, Mandy Lane (Amber HeardAmber Heard
Amber Laura Heard is an American actress and model. She played the lead and title character in All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2006. Heard's first starring role came in 2007 on the CW television show Hidden Palms...
) is a popular outsider. Dylan (Adam Powell
Adam Powell
Adam Powell may refer to:*Adam Powell , English rugby player*Adam Powell , one of the founders of Neopets*One of the people named Adam Clayton Powell:**Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. , pastor...
) invites her to a party at his house and she accepts with the provision that her best friend, Emmet (Michael Welch), can attend also. At the party, Dylan and Emmet clash, and Emmet sits on the roof overlooking the pool watching Mandy. Dylan joins him and Emmet convinces him to jump from the roof to the pool to get Mandy's attention. Dylan jumps but misses, hitting his head on the edge of the pool and dies. Nine months later, Red (Aaron Himelstein
Aaron Himelstein
Aaron Himelstein is an American actor who is perhaps best known for playing a younger version of Austin Powers in Austin Powers in Goldmember and Friedman, Luke Girardi's best friend, in Joan of Arcadia...
) is having a party at his father's ranch and has invited Mandy along. She obtains permission from her Aunt (Peyton Hayslip
Peyton Hayslip
Peyton Hayslip is an American actress.Realizing as a child that she wanted to be an actress, she ultimately received her training as an actress at the Juilliard School in NYC, the Dallas Theater Center, the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, and privately, from the late Martin Jurow...
) and agrees to go. Since Dylan's death she has refused to talk to Emmet. On the way to the ranch, the kids take a break at a railroad track, then steal a keg from a driver (Robert Earl Keen
Robert Earl Keen
Robert Earl Keen, Junior is an American Texas Country singer-songwriter. He is popular with fans of traditional country music, folk music, college radio, and alt-country. Keen currently resides in Kerrville, Texas and maintains a ranch in Medina, Texas.-Early life:Growing up in Houston, Texas,...
) at a truck stop. When they arrive at the ranch Chloe (Whitney Able
Whitney Able
Whitney Able is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in All the Boys Love Mandy Lane and Monsters. She has been featured in Maxim magazine.- Biography :Able has two brothers and is a fan of Led Zeppelin...
) won't drive her car over the cattle grid and so with a shortage of seats Mandy and Bird (Edwin Hodge
Edwin Hodge
Edwin Hodge is an American actor. Hodge is the older brother of actor Aldis Hodge.-Biography:Edwin Martel Basil Hodge was born on January 26, 1985 in Jacksonville, North Carolina to Aldis Hodge and Yolette Evangeline Richardson, but he was raised in New York. Hodge's mother is from the state of...
) elect to walk to the ranch.
While walking, Bird asks to hold Mandy's hand, and she agrees. He then asks if he can kiss her, to which she agrees also, and he kisses her on the cheek, but is interrupted by Garth (Anson Mount
Anson Mount
Anson Adams Mount IV is an American actor who has appeared in both movies and television shows. Mount has also played Jim Steele on the short-lived NBC series Conviction and appeared in the independent movie Tully with Julianne Nicholson, as the title character Tully Coates, a playboy whose ways...
), the ranch hand. Once at the house, they begin drinking and playing games. Mandy is the only one to stay sober. After a disparaging remark, Jake (Luke Grimes
Luke Grimes
Luke Timothy Grimes is an American actor. Grimes was born to a devoutly religious family in Dayton, Ohio. He moved to New York City to study acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He has appeared in All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, and War Eagle, Arkansas...
) walks out, followed by his girlfriend, Marlin (Melissa Price). They stop in a cattle shed, engage in oral sex, then Jake leaves. Marlin is hit in the jaw with the butt of a shotgun. The double-barrel is rammed down her throat, almost killing her. While looking for Marlin, Jake discovers her, barely alive, but is shot by the stranger, and Marlin finally dies. Bird, Mandy, Red, and Chloe are joined by Garth at the house after a stranger in Red's car fires fireworks at them on the porch. Bird chases the car, believing that Jake is the driver, but he encounters Emmet. During their fight, Emmet blinds Bird by cutting his eyes, chases him and finally stabs him to death. At the ranch, Garth stays over. Mandy falls asleep in the kitchen. Red and Chloe fall asleep on the couch. In the morning, Emmet is in the house (which no one knows), and Garth runs upstairs. Emmet goes downstairs and walks over to Mandy, stroking her hair. Garth runs back down to find Mandy still asleep with blood on her hair from Emmet, who also left a message on the fridge reading "Wake Up" with a bloody handprint. Garth and Mandy realize that they need to leave and go to wake up Red and Chloe.
As they prepare to leave, Emmet shoots Garth. Red and Chloe escape out the back and run to Chloe's car. There they discover the bodies of Jake and Marlin, after a brief kiss Red is shot. After running away, Chloe then discovers the body of Bird, as she runs back to the ranch. She is chased by Emmet driving her car. Mandy retrieves the keys to Garth's jeep, and the hunting knife Emmet used to kill Bird. She then sees Chloe running towards the ranch, pursued by Emmet. As Chloe runs up to Mandy, she stabs Chloe in the stomach. While Chloe bleeds out, Emmet and Mandy discuss their plan. Emmet has kept a journal giving the reason behind the killings since he and Mandy have previously agreed to a suicide pact. However, Mandy refuses to take the pills Emmet gives her. A brief chase ensues. They fight. Garth shoots Emmet and then as Emmet chases Mandy she fights him off, long enough to obtain a sharp object and kill him. Mandy then picks up a wounded Garth and heads to his truck and they drive off, Garth claimed Mandy as a "hero". A flashback then shows the group back at a railroad track, taking a break from the drive. They are all goofing off, and Mandy is seen balancing on the tracks, then looking to the camera with a knowing look.
Cast
- Amber HeardAmber HeardAmber Laura Heard is an American actress and model. She played the lead and title character in All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2006. Heard's first starring role came in 2007 on the CW television show Hidden Palms...
as Mandy Lane - Michael Welch as Emmet
- Whitney AbleWhitney AbleWhitney Able is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in All the Boys Love Mandy Lane and Monsters. She has been featured in Maxim magazine.- Biography :Able has two brothers and is a fan of Led Zeppelin...
as Chloe - Edwin HodgeEdwin HodgeEdwin Hodge is an American actor. Hodge is the older brother of actor Aldis Hodge.-Biography:Edwin Martel Basil Hodge was born on January 26, 1985 in Jacksonville, North Carolina to Aldis Hodge and Yolette Evangeline Richardson, but he was raised in New York. Hodge's mother is from the state of...
as Bird - Aaron HimelsteinAaron HimelsteinAaron Himelstein is an American actor who is perhaps best known for playing a younger version of Austin Powers in Austin Powers in Goldmember and Friedman, Luke Girardi's best friend, in Joan of Arcadia...
as Red - Luke GrimesLuke GrimesLuke Timothy Grimes is an American actor. Grimes was born to a devoutly religious family in Dayton, Ohio. He moved to New York City to study acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He has appeared in All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, and War Eagle, Arkansas...
as Jake - Melissa Price as Marlin
- Anson MountAnson MountAnson Adams Mount IV is an American actor who has appeared in both movies and television shows. Mount has also played Jim Steele on the short-lived NBC series Conviction and appeared in the independent movie Tully with Julianne Nicholson, as the title character Tully Coates, a playboy whose ways...
as Garth
Reception
The film received mixed reviews. The film's worldwide box office totals $1,757,355 already covering its $750,000 budget.Release delays
The film was originally supposed to be released in 2007 by The Weinstein CompanyThe Weinstein Company
The Weinstein Company is an American film studio founded by Bob and Harvey Weinstein in 2005 after the brothers left the then-Disney-owned Miramax Films, which they had co-founded in 1979...
(via their Dimension Films
Dimension Films
Dimension Films is a motion picture unit currently a part of The Weinstein Company. It was formerly used as Bob Weinstein's label within Miramax Films, to produce and release genre films...
label), but due to the failure of Grindhouse, among other horror films, The Weinstein Company sold the film to Senator Entertainment US. Senator, who at the time was setting up their own distribution company, later went out of business, and the film has been held in limbo with other unreleased projects since. At Comic-Con 2010, director Levine and star Heard appeared for a screening of the film, and said that release was finally forthcoming, though they did not say when or who would be handling the release. It has been number one on Bloody Disgusting
Bloody Disgusting
Bloody Disgusting is a website that covers horror movies with reviews, interviews and news. It is currently run by Brad Miska, and Tom Owen. According to one source, the site has 1.5 million unique visitors and 20 million page views each month. It is widely considered to be the "world's most...
's list of the best unreleased horror films for the last four years.
External links
- Official MySpace (UK)