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Article: A Boy Called Hate
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- The Village Voice
- Article date:
- May 28, 1996
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Movies by young directors about young lovers on the run from the law are an old story. A Boy Called Hate is about as derivative and self-absorbed as you'd expect, but first-time writer and director Mitch Marcus updates the trailer-park-hijinks millieu that has lately defined the genre with a Southwestern skatepunk.
Hate (Scott Caan, son of James) wears his clothes baggy and carriers a gun for no particular reason, walking and talking like some white rapper lost on the way to a half-pipe in Orange County. It's a nice bit, but Hate-drops such touches once the plot gets going. Pinching from Natural Born Killers, Marcus has Hate shoot a man trying to rape a young woman (Missy Crider), ...