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Disturbing behavior is the tale of a small coastal town where once unruly teens are transformed into academic geniuses.even stranger is that they all dress the same,join the same clubs,act the same.like soulless automatons.when Steve Clark(James Marsden)moves into town,he makes friends with the three misfits:Rachel Wagner(Katie Holmes),Gavin Strick(Nick Stahl) and U.V(Chad Donela).once the three realize the reason for the abrupt behavior changes,they must find a way to stop it,before they are next.Bruce Greenwood,(Thirteen Days,Deja Vu)William Sadler,(The Green Mile,Hard to Kill,Ethan Embry(Harold and Kumar go to White Castle,Sweet Home Alabama)and Katherine Isabelle(Earthsea,Insomnia)also have roles in the film.i thought this was a pretty good film.the premise is not original,but so what.the movie is very dark and will be thought provoking for some,while others will simply enjoy it for it's entertainment value.either way,it's worth watching. 8/10

The new kid in town (James Marsden) stumbles across something sinister about the town's method of transforming its unruly teens into upstanding citizens.This film has an impressive cast for a movie without a notable writer, producer or director (although David Nutter was a director and producer of The X-Files, which gave him some credibility at the time). Katharine Isabelle, William Sadler (as the deranged school janitor), Katie Holmes (in perhaps her best role) and Ethan Embry (to name a few).Although the movie apparently did very poorly, allegedly lasting only a week in some markets, the film launched the very brief music career of The Flys (who appeared on a few soundtracks and disappeared in 2002). This is clearly a soundtrack-centered film (as many were in the 1990s and before), with plenty of bands who were hoping to get noticed. One did.

I'll never forget these teen movies, especially since I was a teen at the time. If they wanted to make movies we would remember, they definitely succeeded. I can't seem to figure out why I liked and remembered these movies, however, which is kind of wierd. Maybe just because I could relate to the characters and it showed school as it pretty much was in real life at the time. I wrote a similar review for The Faculty, saying the same.