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Shock to the System

  • 2006
  • R
  • 1 h 31 min
AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
6,6/10
1,1 mil
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Shock to the System (2006)
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CrimeDramaMistérioSuspense

Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaA gay detective tries to solve the murder of a college student.A gay detective tries to solve the murder of a college student.A gay detective tries to solve the murder of a college student.

  • Direção
    • Ron Oliver
  • Roteiristas
    • Richard Stevenson
    • Ron McGee
  • Artistas
    • Chad Allen
    • Sebastian Spence
    • Michael Woods
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  • AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
    6,6/10
    1,1 mil
    SUA AVALIAÇÃO
    • Direção
      • Ron Oliver
    • Roteiristas
      • Richard Stevenson
      • Ron McGee
    • Artistas
      • Chad Allen
      • Sebastian Spence
      • Michael Woods
    • 11Avaliações de usuários
    • 11Avaliações da crítica
    • 54Metascore
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
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    Shock to the System
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    Chad Allen
    Chad Allen
    • Donald Strachey
    Sebastian Spence
    Sebastian Spence
    • Timmy Callahan
    Michael Woods
    Michael Woods
    • Dr. Cornell
    Daryl Shuttleworth
    Daryl Shuttleworth
    • Detective Bailey
    Morgan Fairchild
    Morgan Fairchild
    • Mrs. Hale
    Anne Marie DeLuise
    Anne Marie DeLuise
    • Lynne Cornell
    Rikki Gagne
    • Katey Simmons
    • (as Rikki Gange, Rikki Gagné)
    Stephen Huszar
    Stephen Huszar
    • Grey
    Nelson Wong
    Nelson Wong
    • Kenny Kwan
    Ryan Kennedy
    Ryan Kennedy
    • Walter
    Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
    Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
    • Levon
    Shawn Roberts
    Shawn Roberts
    • Larry
    Gerry Morton
    • Jefferson
    Morgan Brayton
    Morgan Brayton
    • Hannah
    Leanne Adachi
    • Dr. Sung
    Jared Keeso
    Jared Keeso
    • Paul Hale
    Robert Kaiser
    • Tobias
    Giles Panton
    Giles Panton
    • Bartender
    • Direção
      • Ron Oliver
    • Roteiristas
      • Richard Stevenson
      • Ron McGee
    • Elenco e equipe completos
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    Avaliações de usuários11

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    Lechuguilla

    Reasonably Good Murder Mystery

    A young gay man affiliated with a so-called "gay no more" program seeks help in finding someone, from gay PI Donald Strachey (well played by Chad Allen), in this second in a series of gay detective stories, from Director Ron Oliver. Before Strachey can pursue the investigation, the young man turns up dead.

    My impression is that the filmmakers here want the audience to focus on the dubious nature of the "gay therapy" pushed by political conservatives. However, I chose to watch this film as I would any other murder mystery.

    The killer was a person who was not high on my suspect list; so I enjoyed the surprise ending. However, Ron Oliver's apparent objective to spotlight the hideous agenda of social conservatives seemed to override the need for intricate plotting, necessary for a truly effective whodunit puzzle. Still, the mystery element was sufficiently credible, and I did spend quite a bit of time with it. The mystery's outcome has some clever irony.

    The visuals have a noir, retro look and feel, especially in Strachey's office, with those window blinds, the table fan, and the light and shadows. The opening credits sequence features some great B&W schematics and a terrific jazz score. In the second half, light and shadows, together with eerie music, and the image of a hooded figure running down a dark corridor combine to create some excellent suspense.

    Film direction is unobtrusive and simple, probably by design. I could have wished for fewer close-up shots. At times, the pace grinds almost to a halt in scenes with lengthy dialogue; however, this is not a problem if your attention is on the murder mystery.

    To watch this film as a social commentary on those dreadful "gay no more" programs can be enlightening and informative. But I enjoyed the murder mystery element. "Shock To The System" wasn't quite as good as "Third Man Out", in my opinion. But it was as good or better than countless other whodunit films I have seen.
    8bkoganbing

    Poster Boy Gets Popped

    Shock To The System begins on a dark night with Chad Allen as openly gay private eye Donald Strachey meeting Jared Keeso who wants him to find somebody. No sooner does he hand Allen a $5000.00 retainer check than someone tries to run him down with a car. The next day he's found dead of a pill and liquor combination and the coroner calls it suicide.

    To even the dumbest cops you'll find in any detective story you don't hire a PI for a job and then kill yourself. But the Albany cops don't want to go any farther, but Allen has the scent. Young Keeso was the poster boy for an Ex-Gay therapy group the Phoenix Foundation headed by Michael Woods and his wife Anne Marie DeLuise. That seems the place to start though Keeso's mother Morgan Fairchild tells Allen that it was some gay seeking vengeance on her son for betraying the movement.

    In a move that requires real acting on his part, out and proud detective Chad Allen goes undercover in the foundation claiming to be a troubled gay man seeking a cure from the curse of homosexuality. Some of these scenes and later some scenes of self examination and introspection on his own life with partner Sebastian Spence show some really moving acting by Chad Allen.

    Shock To The System throws us a ton of red herrings as suspects and believe me you will never figure out the real motive for this and another homicide of one of the patients. That being said you won't figure out who the killer is. I didn't until about 30 seconds before it was revealed.

    Chad Allen has made four Strachey stories and hopefully will do more. Having the series shot in Canada I have to say that British Columbia doesn't look anything like Albany, New York so that's a bit of let down in the sense I'm familiar with Albany. But there is a more fundamental difference between these stories and most pulp detective work.

    Be it Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, Mike Hammer or any of a thousand lesser imitations your basic straight detective is a love them and leave them type with a new dame in every story. But the Donald Strachey stories emphasize that Strachey is a domestic type who has settled down with the love of his life who works for a State Senator in Albany. The two are very much in love and the films and books show that at every opportunity.

    The books were written and the films made at a time when LGBT folks are pushing for marriage rights and in 2006 when this film was made we didn't have them in New York. It's interesting to speculate that the idea for a gay private eye originated 20 year previously or if such stories are written 20 years in the future when marriage is secured whether a pulp hero like Donald Strachey will be your typical detective loner dealing with a bar crowd and loving and leaving a succession of young party boys.

    And I would not dare speculate on what lesbian detective fiction might be like if someone is inspired to write a series of those stories.

    But at this point in time Donald Strachey is a hero of those times and hopefully we'll see more of him in future work.
    8ekeby

    What a Surprise!

    Good script. Good acting. Good production. Good editing. Everything about it: good. Okay, maybe one or two weaker performances in minor roles, but nothing actually bad.

    I have to say, this strikes me as really a gay film. That might sound obvious, but hear me out. Brokeback Mountain is about same-sex attraction, unrequited love, etc., but in no way shape or form would I call it a gay movie. Shock to the System has a gay sensibility. We feel we're really in the gay community, observing the rest of the world from OUR point of view. Usually films with this perspective are sub par, if not very sub par.

    What a pleasant surprise to find a good genre picture made from our point of view. I really enjoyed this movie, and I was completely thrown by the various red herring strewn along the way. I'm no big fan of mysteries (a reason I wasn't particularly eager to see this movie), but this one kept me engrossed. The plot handily incorporates the subtext of what it is to be gay in a way that reinforces the story line. Kudos.

    The more I think about it, the more I have to say, much to my surprise, I really liked this movie.
    10sjanders-86430

    Wonderful! Ron Oliver Directed

    Richard Stevenson wrote the book. Ron McGee wrote the script. Chad Allen, Strachey, is the gay detective. Sebastian Spence is Strachy's partner. Nelson Wong is the office manager. Morgan Fairchild is the mother of a gay young man whom she sends to a place to change his sexual orientation. I liked Stephen Huszar a gay man at the clinic. The film moves right along keeping my Interest. There are two murders. All is very believable. Chad tells his partner why he left his Army career. His partner is very attentive and physical. The film demystifies gay marriage; they are two people trying to love each other.
    7Terrell-4

    A nice, complicated murder mystery with an interesting private eye. Don't forget to read the books by Richard Stevenson

    "Trevor Cornell is one of the most successful reparative therapy providers in New York," says Timmy Callahan. "I wonder what his idea of 'successful' is," says Donald Strachey, a private eye. "Dressing badly," says Callahan, "decorating your home with duck decoys, breaking out in a rash whenever Barbra Streisand sings."

    To explain: Reparative therapy means conversion from being gay or lesbian into happy, contented heteroes. Timmy Callahan (Sebastian Spence) is a political type in Albany, New York. Donald Strachey (Chad Allen) is not only a capable and tough private eye in Albany, he and Timmy are married. "At least," as Strachey says, "as close as two men can get to it...more important, I'm in love with him." Those who find a gay agenda under every leaf, revolver and bloody baseball bat may not like this movie. On the other hand, those with a fondness for well-constructed mysteries that feature politics, victimization, murder, martinis and phenalzine should enjoy the story, the style of Donald Strachey and the puzzle. Bet you don't guess the murderer. It's worth pointing out that you don't need to be a collie to enjoy "Lassie" or a guy with a gut to enjoy John Wayne. And you don't need to be gay to enjoy Shock to the System. The movie has it's faults...it was made for cable with awkward acting in some of the secondary roles and it has that clean, careful look of most made-for-TV films. But the mystery is satisfyingly complicated, with a nice number of red herrings. Chad Allen makes a believable, interesting private eye. And his happy home life with Timmy would probably be the envy of many married couples, gay or straight.

    Paul Hale, a frightened 20-year-old man, wants Strachey to help him. But before he can tell Strachey what he wants, he is found dead. At first it's thought Hale died of a stroke, but when a lethal mixture of alcohol and barbiturates is found in Hale's system, Strachey decides to find out what was going on. And that takes him undercover to the Phoenix Foundation, a successful institution led by Dr. Trevor Cornell and his wife, where gays and lesbians, Dr. Cornell says, can find their true path to heterosexuality. It turns out that Hale was going to be a poster boy for the Foundation when Cornell announced a major push to go nation-wide with his cures. Not only does Strachey find himself taking part in group therapy and flashing back to his own earlier life, he gets threatened, beaten up, chased and shot. Almost as frightening, he encounter's Hale's wealthy, well-groomed and surgically-enhanced mother. "My son was not gay!" she says. "He was...confused." Strachey eventually solves the crime. Justice, formal and informal, is dealt out.

    Donald Strachey is the gay private eye in eight mysteries written by Richard Stevenson, beginning with Death Trick in 1981. They are first-rate reads with clever, involved and sometimes violent plots. In other words, they aren't gay mysteries...they're mysteries that happen to feature a gay private eye. Two of the books have been made into cable movies; this one was shown in 2006 and Third Man Out was shown in 2005. The books are well worth reading if you like mysteries. This movie is no classic, but it makes it's "gay agenda" points low-key enough that they don't interfere with the story. And although there is a bit of beef cake that shows up from time to time, one or two friendly smooches and a quick flash of frontal nudity, the movie has none of the leering smarminess that seems built-in to many of the boy-girl Hollywood films nowadays.

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    • Curiosidades
      Second of four films in the "Donald Strachey Mystery" series.
    • Erros de gravação
      In the scene where Strachey thinks Kenny is breaking into his office, Strachey is wearing sunglasses. As soon as he busts through the door after Kenny, his glasses are off, and then reappear on his very next shot.
    • Conexões
      Followed by On the Other Hand, Death (2008)
    • Trilhas sonoras
      I'm Over You
      written by Peter Allen & David Hudgins

      performed by Peter Allen, Vincent Mai and Sibell Thrasher

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    • Data de lançamento
      • 16 de julho de 2006 (Estados Unidos da América)
    • Países de origem
      • Canadá
      • Estados Unidos da América
    • Idioma
      • Inglês
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      • Удар по системе
    • Locações de filme
      • Langley Plaza - 20289 56th Ave., Langley, Columbia Britânica, Canadá
    • Empresas de produção
      • Shavick Entertainment
      • Insight Film Studios
      • here! Films
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    • Faturamento bruto nos EUA e Canadá
      • US$ 3.768
    • Fim de semana de estreia nos EUA e Canadá
      • US$ 2.750
      • 6 de ago. de 2006
    • Faturamento bruto mundial
      • US$ 3.768
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      • 1 h 31 min(91 min)
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