S.F.W. 1994 123movies

Watch: S.F.W. 1994 123movies, Full Movie Online – Cliff Spab is a guy who doesn’t really care about anything. He gets held hostage at a store for 36 days by terrorists, who demand that the entire thing be broadcast on national television. Cliff ends up taking a bullet for fellow hostage Wendy – making him a national hero. The two are the sole survivors of the ordeal, and soon become prisoners of the media. Cliff escapes it all, only to find himself being pushed further away from Wendy when he needs her most..
Plot: An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he’s taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to their threats to kill him makes news headlines.
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Ratings:

	5.7/10 Votes: 5,148
	12% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 90 Popularity: 8.315 | TMDB

Reviews:

A beginning director’s above-average take on a popular if not worn theme of superficiality of instant fame
It’s another movie about an Everyman who is thrust into the eye of instant pop fame by being a hostage in a nationally televised incident. First he enjoys the superficiality of the fame, then…..

In other words, it’s mostly like a dozen other films that address this theme, just a little differently. This one’s a little more deft at dishing out the satire and irony, despite rocking hard those product placements that films relied on in the 90s, in this case, heineken, which we see too many times to count. Since it was an new emerging director at the time, there’s a lot of emphasis on attempts to produce fresh, thoughtful imagery. It’s a commentary on the meaninglessness of popular reality tv, which was new then, albeit in the mid-1990s. It’s hard to remember in 2021 how new we were to instant-reality-tv fame, and when, despite our addiction to it, we also still seemed to know how tasteless it was, before it became part of our ever-present background via social media. A little of EdTV meets Natural Born Killers, with a pretty and then-promising young Stephen Dorff, and a pretty and cute-as-a-button young Reese Witherspoon.

Kudos for not being afraid to show lower middle-class white Southern California the way it really was and is, without all the California/Los Angeles/Beach cliches that audiences lazily expect. Also kudos for showing the character of Spab as a real life character that he probably should be — aimless, ambitionless, talentless, but redeemed by innate charisma, gift for gab, and good looks.

This is one of Dorff’s better dramatic roles. Witherspoon, on the other hand, was not given much to work with, beyond being the “co-star.” Busey, as usual for both he and his father, stole every scene he was in, which wasn’t many.

Slow build to excellence
This film starts out like a Bill & Ted moronic rerun, but slowly evolves into a deeper introspective into PTSD and the meaning of life for a young disillusioned free spirit. After 36 days in a terrifying hostage crisis, broadcast live like a reality TV show, Cliff Spab tries to return to his normal life, but nothing is the same. Everyone wants a piece of his newfound fame. Stephen Dorff carries the whole film with excellent acting skills. By the end, I was rooting for the young man. He took his character from Bill & Ted, to Ryan Gosling… It’s just a shame I had to wait 26 years to see this movie.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 36 min (96 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Jefery Levy
Writer Andrew Wellman, Danny Rubin, Jefery Levy
Actors Stephen Dorff, Reese Witherspoon, Jake Busey
Country United States
Awards 4 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm