The next night, Allison and her girlfriends return to the location of the drug deal. Allison persuades Hector to leave Toby alone. Toby and Hector make a deal, but Toby believes that Hector did not sell him enough for what he paid, and attempts to confront Hector, who pulls a gun on him, humiliating him in front of his friends. Afterwards, she and her friends drive downtown into East LA, intent on buying marijuana, eventually encountering Mexican drug dealer Hector and his crew. The next day, Allison meets with her father, Stuart, at work to discuss family problems, the awkward conversation revealing the virtually non-existent relationship Allison has with her parents. At the end of the party, Allison performs a blowjob on her boyfriend. Later that night, Toby's gang goes to a party at Eric's house, and Allison's relationship with Toby as well as her other friends Emily and Sam is further revealed. A brawl ensues between Toby's gang and another gang, which ends with both sides fleeing just before police arrive. Kaplan died a few months before it started shooting, in a high-profile small plane accident: The plane, piloted by Kaplan's uncle, apparently lost power in midair and plunged into an apartment complex in the Fairfax district, killing everyone aboard and setting the building on fire.In a parking lot, teenage filmmaker Eric attempts to document the Wannabe's lifestyle enjoyed by Allison Lang and her boyfriend Toby's gang of white upper-class teenagers living in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood. But the volatile mix of pampered white girls and street thugs inevitably combusts, dragging the girls' friends and families into an ugly swamp of class-based assumptions and explosive violence.īased on a screenplay written by 17-year-old Jessica Kaplan in 1995 and later rewritten by Gaghan, Kopple's fast-paced look at lifestyles of the bored and reckless bypassed theatrical release and went directly to video and DVD more than two years after it went into production in 1993. She sneaks back downtown and tries to befriend Hector (Freddy Rodriguez), the most approachable of the gang-bangers, and later returns with Emily and two other girlfriends they all wind up at a party and once again get home safely. Allie, whose parents (Laura San Giacomo, Michael Biehn) are too preoccupied with their own troubles to see that their bright, directionless daughter is drifting towards real trouble, is the most deeply affected by the adrenaline rush of real danger. Toby is humiliated, but the teens escape physically unscathed. The four take a trip to East LA in search of dope and score from some tough-looking Chicano guys, but when Toby decides to show off by accusing them of shorting him, the situations turns very ugly, very fast. None of which makes them happy, which is why they cruise around looking for trouble and eventually find some. They talk and dress like gangstas, listen to rap music and throw gang signs in photos, but they're surrounded by all the perks money can buy, from expensive cars to top-line drugs. Poor, neglected little LA rich girls Emily (Bijou Phillips) and Allie (Anne Hathaway, making a radical departure from her family-friendly turns in the PRINCESS DIARIES films) and their equally privileged boyfriends, Toby (Mike Vogel) and Samy (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), belong to a ghetto-style gang, with "style" being the operative word. Despite the high-powered credits - notably Oscar-winning director Barbara Kopple (HARLAN COUNTY, U.S.A.) and Oscar-winning screenwriter Stephen Gaghan (TRAFFIC) - this slight cautionary tale about slumming rich kids is a minor effort.
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