Product Details

• Actors: Jonathan Tucker, Jennifer Tilly, Dan Moran, David Strathairn, Larry Neumann Jr.
• Directors: Tanya Wexler
• Writers: Matthew Swan
• Producers: Greg Johnson, Ira Deutchman, Jo Levi, John Cosgrove, Melissa Chesman
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Screen Media
• DVD Release Date: December 14, 2004
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00064AFBO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #96,986 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Relative Evil" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

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Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 23-AUG-2005
Media Type: DVD

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars They did well given what they were working with, November 27, 2008

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Lemas Mitchell "Libertarian/ Empiricist" (Hunan Changsha) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Relative Evil (DVD)

The characters in this movie are people that you can actually imagine meeting: Real, working class people trying to make it through life subject to many constraints.

The acing was good throughout and with all characters.

One big problem was imagining that a psychiatrist could be coopted for a very small amount of insurance money ($50,000) to try to violate his ethics and prompt a patient to kill himself. The whole movie was not premised on this, and so the whole plot did not shatter when we found out that the psychiatrist was the "other person." It did, however, severely weaken the believability of the whole movie.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Trying to Go Straight in a Dysfunctional Family & Subculture, May 2, 2007

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Artist & Author (Near Mt. Baker, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Relative Evil (DVD)

I found this movie to be quite depressing because it is very realistic. It seems to be marketed as a sort of thriller, but I think it is much more a psychological story. Much of the movie is taken up with J.J.'s psychological counseling and his psychologist. This certainly is not a feel-good movie. Simply put, it shows how important a positive support system is for a juvenile who comes out of drug rehabilitation or some juvenile criminal institution. This movie would probably be best shown to families of kids finishing their time in the institution so it can be discussed. Hopefully, it would help some families (at least a few) avoid placing undo pressures on their child that will result in his or her self-destructive thinking. This movie shows how the relatives and friends created situations that put 'JJ' back on the path to more time in a juvenile institution, and, as he gets older, will result surely in prison.

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A remarkable low budget film!, December 15, 2004

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MC Film (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Relative Evil (DVD)

This is not a typical horror film--great performances and truly creepy! Run, don't walk to rent/buy it!