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Gossip [2000]
from Warner Home Video
starring James Marsden, Lena Headey, Norman Reedus, Kate Hudson, Eric Bogosian
directed by Davis Guggenheim

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Editorial Review:

Gossip is one of a spate of movies that owe a lot to Cruel Intentions. This time it's rich kids in college, but other than that Gossip stays well within the beautiful-young-people-doing-awful-things-to-each other formula. Lena Heady plays Jones, obviously the Smart Girl because she is briefly seen wearing glasses. Jones hangs out with Arty Guy Travis and Handsome Rich Guy Derrick, who finances their adventures and has a little bit of a lying habit. The three are all in the same journalism class (acidic monologist Eric Bogosian plays the acidic professor) and decide to start and track a rumour for their term papers. They pick rich and beautiful couple Beau and Naomi (Joshua Jackson and Kate Hudson) as the focus of the rumour, and before you know it their juicy story starts spinning out of control into ugly territory and a truly ludicrous climax. There are attempts at making sledgehammer points about the slippery task of finding Truth, but mostly Gossip is about the guilty pleasure of watching pretty young actors be mean to each other. You'll hate yourself in the morning, but watch it anyway. --Ali Davis, Amazon.com

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• One of the best 'B' movies you'll ever happen upon.
  I saw this movie on TV first and I was surprised that it hadn't made a bigger showing on the big screen. I wouldn't say that it was the best film I've ever seen, and the criticism that the characters and plot are a bit overly conceited with their own intelligence is not entirely unfair (though doesn't that describe media students).

  However the casting and direction are excellent. There are some highly recognisable faces and the pace of the story clips along at a good pace. There are twists and turns in... more info

• Mindless Chatter.
  I try not to be too vituperative in my reviews but Gossip truly deserves it. It is, I think, perhaps the worst films I have ever seen and, a few attractive women aside, has no redeeming features at all. The worst thing is not that the plot is nonsensical, which it is, but that it thinks that its profound.

  The main characters are three deeply unlovable media students who think that they are so very intellectual and sophisticated when of course they are just whiny, spolit brats. At least that part is true... more info

• You won't be talking about this one
  Gossip takes a rather promising idea - how far a rumour will go once it starts and the consequences it can cause - and ends up making a rather dull and, in places downright ludicrious movie. Here we have 3 media students, who only ever seem to go to one lecture given by a lecturer who looks scarily like Tom Jones, who decide to start a rumour about a young rich girl (Kate Hudson). Before you know it, the rumour is spiralling out of control and allegations of rape and murder are flying around the campus.... more info

• Gossip
  I was basically forced to sit down and watch this film by a friend who thought it was great, I didn't know what to expect! - I thought it was a great thought provoking film, I can't understand that why it was not a block buster.....
  I def. reccoment this ...

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