A Boy Called Hate
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Mitch Marcus
Scott Caan
Missy Crider
Elliott Gould
Adam Beach
James Caan
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Steve "Hate" Bason is an alienated suburban Arizona teenager with a major attitude problem. Stealing an idling car as a whim, Hate is caught and sent to a juvenile detention center. After his release, tensions at home boil over, with Hate embittered by his parents' divorce and his alcoholic father's inability to straighten his life. Sneaking out at night, Hate rides his motorcycle to a vacant lot. While shooting out lightbulbs on a billboard with an illegal handgun, he witnesses an older man trying to rape a teenage girl. Hate shoots the man and, believing he's dead, escapes with the girl, Cindy. On the lam, they stop at a roadside diner, where Cindy leaves her handbag. A motorcycle cop retrieves it and chases after them, but Hate mistakenly believes his arrest is imminent and fatally shoots the cop. Hate and Cindy escape into the desert, where they are sheltered by a wise-ass Native American, but eventually confront their situation and the deadly consequences which await them.
Director
Mitch Marcus
Cast
Scott Caan
Missy Crider
Elliott Gould
Adam Beach
James Caan
Crew
Tony Allard
Donny Blank
Bobby Duchowny
Barklie K Griggs
Paul Holahan
Paul Holahan
Jeffrey D Homles
Robert Hunter
Derek Johnasen
Joe Johnston
Sami Kassim
Caryn Marcus
Mitch Marcus
Steven Nicolaides
Kim Orchen
Steve Pederson
Marshall Persinger
Tom Rowe
Michael A Ruscio
Karen R Sachs
Marjorie Skouras
Roger Stevenson
Vanessa Vogel
Susan Wieder
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States February 1995
Released in United States May 1995
Released in United States May 31, 1996
Released in United States on Video June 11, 1996
Released in United States Summer May 22, 1996
Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (Panorama) February 9-20, 1995.
Shown at Cannes Film Festival (market) May 17-28, 1995.
Feature directorial debut for Mitch Marcus.
Began shooting September 19, 1994.
Completed shooting October 14, 1994.
Alternative Cinema Company is the newly-formed art house sales division of London-based J&M Entertainment.
Released in United States February 1995 (Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (Panorama) February 9-20, 1995.)
Released in United States May 1995 (Shown at Cannes Film Festival (market) May 17-28, 1995.)
Released in United States Summer May 22, 1996
Released in United States May 31, 1996 (Los Angeles)
Released in United States on Video June 11, 1996
