Twelve

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  • Opened August 6, 2010 (Limited)
  • 1 hr 33 min
  • R | strong drug content, alcohol abuse, language, sexual material, brief nudity and some violence - all involving teens
  • Parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+. More on child suitability

  • Based on the controversial Nick McDonell novel, TWELVE follows high school dropout turned successful drug dealer White Mike (Chace Crawford) in New York's Upper East Side. Business is booming when all of the kids are home from boarding school and everyone has money to blow. Mike leads a double life, concealing the truth from his childhood friend Molly (Emma Roberts) while his supplier Lionel (Curtis Jackson) pulls Mike further into the world of the Manhattan drug trade. Mike’s two lives begin to collide when his cousin is brutally murdered on an East Harlem playground and a new drug, twelve, emerges as the recreational drug of choice. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Chace Crawford, Anthony Quarles, Curtis Jackson, Jeremy Allen White, Philip Ettinger
  • Director: Joel Schumacher
  • Genres: Drama

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by leey

The ever-handsome Chace Crawford is able to reveal an inner and shattered part of himself. A Ying-Yang of teenage debauchery and the darker side of life through the eyes of the supposedly "innocent"...

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The Hollywood Reporter
| Kirk Honeycutt

Joel Schumacher's Twelve, the latest expose of self-indulgence among privileged teens, is sleek, giddy fun. Read full review

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Movieline
| Michelle Orange

Over-narrated by Kiefer Sutherland in full "this is extremely important and also very, very cool" mode, from its first self-important minutes Twelve seems as if it can't possibly be serious. Would that it were not. Read full review

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Entertainment Weekly
| Lisa Schwarzbaum

Twelve ogles the lost boys and girls as they make their mistakes. But unlike the novel, the movie never really gets inside these kids, who aren't in the least all right. Read full review

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Time Out New York
| Keith Uhlich

From the moment Joel Schumacher's dour teens-in-crisis melodrama establishes its group of spoiled (and so, so unloved) Manhattan silver-spooners, you long for anything to leaven the tsk-tsk prurience. Read full review

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A scene from the film "Twelve."