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11:14

2003 film by Greg Marcks


2003 film by Greg Marcks

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name11:14
image11-14 (2003 film) poster.jpg
captionOfficial film poster
directorGreg Marcks
writerGreg Marcks
producer{{Plainlist
starring{{Plainlist
cinematographyShane Hurlbut
editing{{Plainlist
musicClint Mansell
studioFirm Films
Media 8 Entertainment
distributor{{Plainlist
released
runtime86 minutes
country{{Plainlist
languageEnglish
budget$6 million
  • Beau Flynn
  • John Morrissey
  • Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Barbara Hershey
  • Patrick Swayze
  • Hilary Swank
  • Ben Foster
  • Clark Gregg
  • Colin Hanks
  • Shawn Hatosy
  • Stark Sands
  • Henry Thomas
  • Dan Lebental
  • Richard Nord Media 8 Entertainment
  • New Line Cinema
  • United States
  • Canada

11:14 is a 2003 neo-noir black comedy thriller film written and directed by Greg Marcks (in his feature directorial debut). The film stars an ensemble cast consisting of Rachael Leigh Cook, Ben Foster, Clark Gregg, Colin Hanks, Shawn Hatosy, Barbara Hershey, Stark Sands, Hilary Swank, Patrick Swayze, and Henry Thomas. It follows five different storylines that all lead up to a series of events that happen one evening at 11:14.

The film premiered at the 56th Cannes Film Festival on May 16, 2003 and also screened at the 28th Toronto International Film Festival on September 5, 2003. It received a limited theatrical release in San Francisco, California on August 12, 2005, before being released on DVD and Blu-ray by New Line Home Entertainment on October 11, 2005.

Plot

The film involves a series of interconnected events that converge around two car-related accidents at 11:14 p.m. The connections between the events are not apparent at first, but are gradually revealed by a series of progressively receding flashbacks.

Part 1

11:14 - 11:34

### Part 2 **11:09 - 11:29** ::Tim, Mark, and Eddie are driving around causing trouble by throwing things out of the windows of Mark's mother's van, including a jelly donut, which hits an oncoming car, and a book they have set on fire. Mark, distracted by Eddie urinating out the van's window, runs into and kills Cheri, who was crossing the road while on her cell phone. They stop, but flee the scene when Duffy comes toward the van with a gun. As Duffy fires on the retreating van, Tim realizes that the accident also caused the van's window to snap shut, cutting off Eddie's penis. Eddie insists that they all go back to the site of the crash because he doesn't want to live without his penis; feeling sorry for Eddie, Tim volunteers to go back in an effort to find the penis. Tim is accosted by the paramedics, Leon and Kevin at the scene, but manages to escape and get the severed penis back to Eddie. ### Part 3 **11:04 - 11:24** ::Frank is walking his dog late at night and discovers his daughter Cheri's keys (including a key to Aaron's car) next to the dead body of Aaron, in the cemetery. Thinking his daughter is responsible for the death, Frank packs the body in the trunk of Aaron's car, accidentally locking the keys in with the body. He uses a rock to break a window and get into the car, then drives to a bridge. He has to hide from a car driven by Duffy that passes by, but then disposes of the body by dropping it over the side of the bridge, where it lands on Jack's car (as seen at the start of the film). His dog runs off with the blood-soaked jacket. He chases the dog, eventually catching it. He sees the burning book that the people threw on the sidewalk, and uses it to set his jacket on fire. His wife, Norma, sees him and gives him a ride home, where she sends him out to look for the deer that Jack supposedly hit. ### Part 4 **10:59 - 11:19** ::Buzzy is working at a convenience store late at night. Her friend and co-worker, Duffy, arrives and they begin discussing Cheri's pregnancy and money needed for an abortion. Mark and Eddie arrive after the store is closed but Duffy lets them come in. They are there to buy items to throw out the van windows. After they leave, Duffy tells Buzzy his plan to steal from the store the $500 required to pay for the abortion. Cheri arrives and she and Duffy go into the cooler. Meanwhile Buzzy is playing around with Duffy's revolver (the one he plans to use to rob the store) and she accidentally shoots a bullet through a glass door of a refrigerator, barely missing Duffy and Cheri. Cheri leaves and Duffy asks Buzzy to allow him to steal the money from the convenience store's cash register. Buzzy objects, fearful of losing her job, but relents, while insisting that Duffy shoot her in the arm to make it look like an authentic robbery. He shoots her in the arm and then dials [9-1-1](9-1-1) for her, leaving while she is on the phone. Duffy looks for his keys, barely escaping the police who are arriving more quickly than he thought they would. While driving away, he passes by Aaron's car, where Frank has parked it preparing to dispose of Aaron's body. Duffy then sees Cheri parked and tells her he got the money for her abortion. When she gets out of her car, he witnesses the young people's van knocking down and killing Cheri, and he shoots at the young people. He is then arrested by Officer Hannagan for shooting at the van and for the store robbery, based on the description someone phoned in (later revealed to be Cheri). Buzzy is arrested as an accomplice when she refuses to identify Duffy and admits to conspiring with him. ### Part 5 **10:54 - 11:14** ::Cheri leaves her house to have sex with Aaron at the cemetery. Aaron is reclining against a tombstone that has a stone angel on top. The angel's neck is damaged and the heavy stone head falls onto Aaron's face, killing him instantly and mutilating his face. Cheri runs away from the scene, not realizing that she has dropped the set of keys that Frank found in the earlier scene. Cheri borrows her father's car and goes to the convenience store to get Duffy's bowling ball, intending to replace the angel head with the bowling ball and implicate Duffy as killing Aaron. As she drives away from the store, she sees the shooting and reports a description of Duffy to the police. When Cheri arrives back at the cemetery, she drops the bowling ball when she sees that Aaron's body is gone. She tries to leave, but her car is again having trouble starting. Her cell phone rings, and she begins talking to Jack. This is the phone conversation the movie begins with, continued to inform the viewer that Cheri's "pregnancy" is actually a scam to get money from both Duffy and Aaron, so that Cheri and Jack can leave town together with the money. In the midst of the call, Duffy calls out Cheri's name from across the street to tell her that he got the $500 she wanted him to get. Cheri hangs up quickly, and while she is crossing the street, the cell phone rings again, and, distracted, she stops in the middle of the road, where she is hit by the van containing Mark, Tim, and Eddie. The camera pans to Cheri's cell phone, which reads 11:14 p.m. ## Cast - Henry Thomas as Jack Levine - Blake Heron as Aaron Lewis - Barbara Hershey as Norma - Clark Gregg as Officer George Hannagan - Hilary Swank as "Buzzy" - Shawn Hatosy as Duffy Nichols - Stark Sands as Tim - Colin Hanks as Mark - Ben Foster as Eddie - Patrick Swayze as Frank - Rachael Leigh Cook as Cheri - Jason Segel as Leon - Rick Gomez as Kevin ## Reception ### Critical response On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, *11:14* has a 92% “fresh” approval rating based on 12 reviews, with an average rating of 6.9/10. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 65 out of 100, based on 4 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. Lisa Nesselson of *Variety* praised *11:14* as a "zippy and sardonic feast of bad decision-making under pressure" that "artfully molds the seemingly unrelated misfortunes of 10 characters into a satisfying and consistently entertaining whole." Wally Hammond of *Time Out* gave the film a mixed review, noting: "Marcks mounts all this as an essay in synchronicity, replete with flashbacks, overlaps, connections and black humour... there are some outrageous, funny moments and Marcks directs with minor panache. But it’s ultimately an unsatisfactory experience, akin to observing someone else fill in a crossword puzzle." Mick LaSalle of the *San Francisco Chronicle* called it a "meticulous piece of plot construction, entertaining, full of incidents and infused throughout with a mischievous and bleak sense of humor." Ryan Lambie of *Den of Geek* listed it as one of the top 25 underrated films of 2003. ### Accolades ::data[format=table] | Year | Award | Category | Nominee | Result | |---|---|---|---|---| | 2006 | DVD Exclusive Awards | Best Overall Movie, Live-Action DVD Premiere | *11:14* | | | Best Actor in a DVD Premiere Movie | Henry Thomas | | | | | Best Actress in a DVD Premiere Movie | Hilary Swank | | | | | Best Supporting Actress in a DVD Premiere Movie | Barbara Hershey | | | | | Best Screenplay for a DVD Premiere Movie | Greg Marcks | | | | | Best Original Score in a DVD Premiere Movie | Clint Mansell | | | | | Best Cinematography in a DVD Premiere Movie | Shane Hurlbut | | | | | Best Editing in a DVD Premiere Movie | Dan Lebental Richard Nord | | | | :: ## References ## References 1. ["11:14 (2005)"](https://m.the-numbers.com/movie/11-14). 2. (August 10, 2005). ["11:14 to be released by New Line Cinema"](http://crashdown.com/news/2005/08/1114-to-be-released-by-new-line-cinema/). 3. ["11:14"](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1114). 4. ["11:14"](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/1114). 5. Nesselson, Lisa. (September 23, 2003). ["11:14"](https://variety.com/2003/film/reviews/11-14-1200539057/). 6. Hammond, Wally. (July 11, 2006). ["11:14"](https://www.timeout.com/movies/11-14). 7. LaSalle, Mick. (January 20, 2012). ["Stars pop up in clever, dark, little-known indie"](https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/Stars-pop-up-in-clever-dark-little-known-indie-2648829.php). 8. Lambie, Ryan. (December 19, 2013). ["The top 25 underrated films of 2003"](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-top-25-underrated-films-of-2003/). ::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11:14) and is available under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the [article history page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11:14?action=history). ::
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