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Hate Crime
Directed by
Tommy Stovall
2005
1h 44m
R
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6.3
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Robbie and Trey are gay, middle-class, suburban professionals. Life is good. Until the son of a fundamentalist preacher moves in next door.
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Cast of Hate Crime
Seth Peterson
Robbie Levinson
Bruce Davison
Pastor Boyd
Chad Donella
Chris Boyd
Cindy Pickett
Barbara McCoy
Brian J. Smith
Trey McCoy
Susan Blakely
Martha Boyd
Lin Shaye
Kathleen Slansky
Farah White
Det. Elizabeth Fisher
Giancarlo Esposito
Detective Esposito
Sean Hennigan
Jim McCoy
Brandy Little
Stella
Ben Bathman
Connor Davis
Luke King
Alton Kachim
Earl Browning III
Detective Loy
Scarlett McAlister
Doctor Kucera
Connor Gewin
4-year-old Trey
Tyler Farris
10-year-old Trey
Trevor Sterling Stovall
Fisher's Son
Jason Hair-Wynn
Boy in Jail (uncredited)
Preston Strother
Boy in Church (uncredited)
Tyler Strother
Boy in Church (uncredited)
Cyrus Thompson
Boy in the Park (uncredited)
Hate Crime Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The portrait of the Boyds is painted by Tommy Stovall, the film's writer and director, with such broad and venomous strokes that if the gay characters had been portrayed in the same way, the film would rightly be seen as bigoted.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
On the surface, Hate Crime may seem like a movie about violence rooted in religious bigotry, but underneath it's a poorly disguised argument for vigilantism.
Arizona Republic
Bill Muller
First-time Sedona filmmaker Tommy Stovall can't bear to part with certain scenes, even if they lengthen his film and send the story in circles.
Dallas Morning News
Mario Tarradell
... a flawed film that frequently tries to rise above standard TV dramas of the week.
eFilmCritic.com
Peter Sobczynski
Well-meaning but deeply flawed.
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Well-intentioned but convoluted thriller.
Film Threat
Felix Vasquez Jr.
While Stovall's study of hate crimes is well acted, and with the right intentions, it can never get off the ground and feel like a unique dissection, and still comes off as an episode of a cop show in the end.
Filmcritic.com
Don Willmott
deserves praise, even the political viewpoints lack any subtlety whatsoever.
TheMovieChicks.com
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
It takes a turn toward vigilante justice, Texas-style, where everybody has a gun. They trade a hate crime for a crime of hate, and that mixed message overshadows the potential of this film.
Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
A well-meaning but hopelessly stilted melodrama, Hate Crime sacrifices good intentions with its mediocrity of execution.
Variety
Lael Loewenstein
What is not entirely clear is what Hate Crime adds to the equation that hasn't been done before.
Village Voice
Jorge Morales
When the plot gets lost in irrational revenge fantasies, you'll wish you had stayed home watching reruns.
TheHorrorShow
Anton Bitel
even if [it] finds an audience receptive to all the shock and torment, this repetitive series of fascistic taunts and visceral outrages becomes, in the absence of decent characterisation and an interesting story, surprisingly unengaging.
Film Journal International
David Noh
Call it too much fuel to the fire in a misguided effort to bring home the tragedy of gay hate crimes.
New Times
Luke Y. Thompson
One day, a truly original screenplay will be written in which churchgoing, beer-drinking Southerners will be portrayed as something other than evil hypocrites.
L.A. Weekly
Ernest Hardy
The film never rises above its cry now-avenge later Lifetime Channel sensibilities.
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