Tape (2001)

Release date: 2002-07-12
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Richard Linklater
Production Co: Detour Filmproduction, IFC Productions, InDigEnt (Independent Digital Entertainment)
Genre: Drama
Rating: 7.3/10
Length: 1h 26min

Storyline

Twenty-eight year olds Jon and Vince, friends from high school, meet in Vince's seedy motel room in Lansing, Michigan. Jon had invited Vince to town from his current residence of Oakland to help celebrate the fact of his latest movie, independently shot, having a screening at the local film festival the following day, the first public screening of one of his movies. While Jon seems to have grown up in having this career path and a nice room in an upscale hotel provided by the festival, Vince, who, in preparing for the evening has already had a few beer by the time Jon arrives, hasn't, he who deals drugs for a living with no change on the horizon, and his girlfriend, who was supposed to accompany him to Lansing, having broken up with him, indirectly because of his immaturity. This divergence quickly becomes an issue of contention between the two. But as Vince's behavior is seemingly more and more substance affected, he having broken out the weed and coke, his intention with Jon may be ...

Plot Keywords

single set production, real time, reunion, secret, revenge, minimal cast, drug use, rape, high school, motel, filmmaker, film festival, love triangle, fight, pillow fight, friendship, blackmail, love, sex, snorting cocaine

Short Review

Three actors yakking in a single drab interior, shot on HD video: It's unlikely this poverty-program recipe has, or ever will again, yield results quite as entertaining as "Tape."