Disconnect

Year of release : 2012

Run time : 1h55m

Genre : Psychological Drama / Crime

Cast : Alexander Skarsgard, Max Thieriot, Andrea Riseborough, Jason Bateman, Paula Patton, Frank Grillo

The movie has 3 stories which interconnect.

Reporter Nina Dunham finds a chat room with underage strippers. She convinces her boss to let her make a story about it. She then convinces Kyle, an 18 year old video chat stripper who ran away from home, and now lives in a home with other teens, to give her an interview. He finally agrees, and her interview ends up on CNN. That also gets the FBI's attention who tell her she either tells them where this house is, or they prosecute her for soliciting minors.

Derek and Cindy are trying to make things work after the loss of their baby. Derek used to be a soldier, while Cindy runs a business from home. She chats online with a stranger whom she tells personal details about their life.

When Derek is away on business, he is told his card is declined. Cindy later finds their card has no money on it anymore. They call the police who tell them their identities have been stolen, and they can't do anything about it.

They hire a private detective who is led to a man who owns a small cleaners business. He tells Derek who wants to confront the man. He also tells them their money was stolen through the chats Cindy had with the man about her private life.

Two teenagers like to prank people in the worst ways, the first time they are introduced, they pee in energy bottle drinks and put them back on the shelves, watching people drink them, and laughing about it.

They see one of their class mates look at them (he probably didn't even see them!), and they don't like how he looks at them. They decide to prank him. So they create a facebook account of a girl, Jessica Rhony (which his father discovers after, it's an anagram for 'horny'!) send him a friend request, and start messing with him.

The kid thinks it's a real person so he confides in them. They send him a nude picture of a girl from the internet, and wait on him to do the same.

The kid does, and they send it to the whole school !

The kid gets bullied, and he h@ngs himself.

While his mother and sister spend all their time at the hospital,for he's in a coma, his father (who's a lawyer) is going through his things, spending his time online, trying to see what was he doing, and what led to him trying to off himself.

He finds 'Jessica's' account, and starts talking to the kid.

The father is hired to represent Nina's firm, as she's in trouble with the FBI.

The father of one of the prankers, is hired by the married couple who were victims of fraud.

Jason, the kid who's father is the private detective, thinks his father doesn't love him, and that his father is a bad person, but the father seems really nice to me, the one who's a bad person is him and his friend, who do terrible things to people for no reason, just to make themselves feel better.

I found these teenagers despicable, and really hated the fact there were no consequences to their actions.

The movie was good, it didn't bore me, thing which dramas usually do, but I didn't like that things went nowhere, nothing was resolved.

This is why I hate dramas. When they end, things are worse than when it started! Nothing gets resolved! SPOILER The kid didn't even wake up from the coma!

The actors were good.

The movie is mostly silent, but when the music kicks in, it's good.

The movie received positive reviews, and grossed a little over 1.500.000 dollars at the box office.

Rating : Could have been a contender !