Havoc

Havoc (2005)

Too much is never enough.

A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends want to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California's "gangsta" lifestyle, but problems arise when they provoke the wrath of a violent Latino gang.

Date of release
2005-10-16
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (371)
Runtime
1h 26m
Genres
Crime, Drama
Director
Barbara Kopple
Collection
Havoc Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: California, Los Angeles, and Santa Monica

Havoc is a 2005 crime drama film directed by Barbara Kopple from a screenplay by Stephen Gaghan, who wrote the story with Jessica Kaplan. The film stars Anne Hathaway, Bijou Phillips, and Mike Vogel. It follows the lives of wealthy Los Angeles teenagers whose exposure to hip hop culture inspires them to imitate the gangster lifestyle and engage in slum tourism; they run into trouble when they encounter a gang of drug dealers, discovering they are not as street-wise as they had thought. Shiri Appleby, Freddy Rodriguez, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Channing Tatum, Michael Biehn, and Laura San Giacomo appear in supporting roles.

Production

Havoc had a production budget of $9 million.

The original treatment of the script was written in 1993 by Jessica Kaplan, who was 14 years old at the time, and was based on her own observations of her affluent white classmates in West Los Angeles. Her script was sold to New Line Cinema two years later for $150,000, with the script being developed at Single Cell Pictures, a production company headed by Michael Stipe.

Tony Kaye was approached to direct the film. Kaye had problems with the script, and made a series of demands, which included him having full control of rewriting the script.

On June 6, 2003, shortly before filming began, Kaplan was killed in a plane crash in Los Angeles, along with four other people, including her uncle. A dedication to Kaplan is shown preceding the credits at the end of the film.

When the script was sold in 1995, actors such as Alicia Silverstone, Stephen Dorff, Ethan Hawke, and Christian Slater were considered for roles.

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