Fun (film)

Fun
Directed by	Rafal Zielinski
Written by	James Bosley
Starring	Alicia Witt Renée Humphrey William R. Moses Leslie Hope
Cinematography	Jens Sturup
Edited by	Monika Lightstone
Music by	Rana Joy Glickman
Distributed by	Greycat Films/Neo Modern Entertainment
Release date	April 14, 1995
Running time	105 min.
Country	Canada/United States
Language	English

Fun is a 1994 independent drama film starring Alicia Witt and Renée Humphrey, directed by Rafal Zielinski. Both Witt and Humphrey won a Special Jury Recognition for Technical Acting at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival. The film centres on the murder of an elderly woman by two mentally unstable girls. It received high critical praise, but failed at the box office; it has since performed well on subsequent video releases.

Plot

The film is told in flashbacks detailing the girls' relationship (in color), and their time in prison (in black and white). Bonnie, aged 14, (Witt) and Hillary, aged 15, (Humphrey) meet at a bus stop in Los Angeles, California and begin a relationship. They stroll around their city, chuck rocks onto a highway from an overpass bridge, run rampant in shopping malls, and play video games.

Their day escalates into an eruption of violence and rage when they brutally stab an elderly woman to death. They then run to a gas station and attempt to wash off the blood from their clothes. After their arrest, they claim that the murder was purely just for "fun". The story moves from the juvenile detention centre where the girls are kept, to the girls on the day of the killing.

External links

• Fun at IMDb