All the Boys Love Mandy Lane

Unrated

3/10/20071h 30m

Premiere Release (US)

~ Everyone is dying to be with her. Someone is killing for it. ~

Overview:

Beautiful Mandy Lane isn't a party girl but, when classmate Chloe invites the Texas high school student to a bash in the countryside, she reluctantly accepts. After hitching a ride with a vaguely scary older man, the teens arrive at their destination. Partying ensues, and Mandy's close pal, Emmet, keeps a watchful eye on the young males making a play for Mandy. Then two of the students are murdered.

Director:

Jonathan Levine

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$750,000.00

Revenue:

$1,757,270.00

Key words:

dying and death
farm
high school
plan
suicide attempt
gun
mass murder
texas
farm worker
beauty
fraud
surprise
murder
female corpse

Cast

Amber Heard

~ as ~

Mandy Lane

Michael Welch

~ as ~

Emmet

Whitney Able

~ as ~

Chloe

Anson Mount

~ as ~

Garth

Edwin Hodge

~ as ~

Bird

Aaron Himelstein

~ as ~

Red

Luke Grimes

~ as ~

Jake

Melissa Price

~ as ~

Marlin

Adam Powell

~ as ~

Dylan

Peyton Hayslip

~ as ~

Aunt Jo

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Reviews (1)

Wuchak
Written 7 year(s) ago
5
Several teens go to a cabin-in-the-woods to party (no, really)…

… actually it’s a ranch house, but close enough. Anyway, they start getting picked off by a mad slasher with the most promiscuous ones dying first. Sound familiar?

“All the Boys Love Mandy Lane” debuted at film festivals in 2006 but curiously wasn’t released to theaters until 2013. I’m surprised this was even released to theaters because it’s a low-budget indie slasher, nothing more. It cost $750,000, which is more than enough to make a competent film. The well-done “Another Kind” (2013), for instance, only cost $120,000. But “Mandy Lane” is just too all-around hackneyed and meh, which isn’t helped by the fact that half the characters are repellent (e.g. Jake, Marlin & Chloe).

Thankfully, the filmmaking is competent with some nice cinematography of central Texas and Amber Heard in an early role is a highlight. Plus there’s a surprise at the end, but it makes you question the person’s motives. If you reflect on the material, though, it all makes sense and shows that some thought was put into the script. Of course this doesn’t help the dull shallowness of most of the characters (who are SUPPOSED to be shallow, I get it).

The film runs 1 hour, 30 minutes and was shot in the heart of Texas (Austin & Bastrop) with other stuff done in Santa Clarita, CA.

GRADE: C