Product Details

• Actors: Ara Apcar, Shawna Batesole, Rachel Binder, Johnny Clark (II), James DeBello
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: March 8, 2005
• Run Time: 91 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000777HY8
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #81,098 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Beneath the tranquil atmosphere of The Hillz, four affluent suburban teens are caught up in a web of spiraling violence, drug addiction and casual sex. After a year away at college, Steve 5 (Charmed's Jesse Woodrow) returns to find his neighborhood radically changed. His best friend, Duff (Rene Heger, MTV's Undressed), has become the sadistic head of a gang that has turned the beautiful suburban hills into an ultra-violent crime zone where drugs and sex are as plentiful as candy. Duff finally has respect, plenty of cash and cool new friends (including James DeBello, Swimfan). Finding himself lured into Duff's new life, Steve 5 struggles to stay true to his dream of becoming a professional baseball player and also trying to win the love of the sexy but unattainable Heather (Paris Hilton, The Simple Life). Combining the grittiness of Boyz N the Hood and the flavor of TV's The O.C., here's a comedic pulse-pounding adventure on the "hood's" leaf-strewn streets. Cast includes: Paris Hilton (Fox's The Simple Life), Rene Heger (In Enemy Hands, guest appearance in Gilmore Girls, guest appearance in Charmed), Jesse Woodrow (model, guest appearance in Charmed, Chasing the Dragon) and Jason Shaw (model, L.A. Knights, Liar's Club, guest appearance in Charmed). The Hillz also includes Eric Priestly (Port Charles), Vince Rimoldi (Camp), Silas Gaither (Survivor: Africa, Anger Management) and a cameo appearance from Trishelle Cannatella (MTV's The Real World).

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A gritty exercise in utter futility, July 8, 2005

By	Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Actually sitting down and watching a Paris Hilton film is about as wild and crazy as I get. The Hillz really isn't a Paris Hilton film at all, though; it's just a film that she happens to appear in. I don't think the Oscars are going to come calling at the Hilton estate any time soon. The really sad thing is that everyone else in the cast is even a worse actor/actress than Paris. I might mention the fact that Paris actually keeps her clothes on in this movie - although her funeral scene attire was a wardrobe malfunction waiting to happen.

Oddly enough, this film could have been OK; all it needed was a decent writer, a decent director, a decent producer, a few decent actors, and some decent film quality. Since The Hillz has none of those things, it basically does a complete cannonball into an empty swimming pool. If I didn't know better, I would think Eminem wrote the script. The Hillz is basically all about a group of white, nouveau riche, teenaged hooligans who embrace a life of crime. In high school, they are just bored, no-good juvenile delinquents - and the cops are no better than they are. After high school, though, every policeman within 100 miles of The Hillz obviously left town because Duff and his gang of hooligans and thugs beat people up, sell drugs, use drugs, and murder people in cold blood - in broad daylight. There is apparently no community watch group in The Hillz because it's sort of hard for a whole neighborhood to not notice anything suspicious when a gang of kids cursing at the tops of their lungs start blowing each others' brains out in the middle of the street in the middle of the day. Gorehounds, I must say, will be disappointed because we hardly see any blood whatsoever. The characters themselves hardly even notice when Duff has one of his episodes and spontaneously takes somebody's head off - although one character does utter the words "uncalled for" in the wake of one of the murders.

There are trace elements of morality in this dark story. A couple of the main characters walk away from the gang after the killing starts, only to be sucked back in (one way or another) before the credits roll. The narrator is supposedly some guy who learned his lesson and is looking back on what happened to him, but he's just as dumb as Duff. If this is some kind of morality tale, it's not a very good one. The narrator guy happens to be madly in love with Heather Smith (Paris Hilton), even though she's self-centered and superficial (Paris wasn't exactly forced to act out of character for this film). Paris doesn't really bring a lot to the actual story, but she (unlike her equally untalented co-stars) can generate sales. When Paris Hilton is about the only thing going for a movie, you know it has some real problems.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars One of the worst Movies EVER!!!, April 10, 2005

By	R. Stuart "Marlboroman98882" (Nebraska) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I rented this movie for a couple of reasons. I LOVE Paris Hilton, and the lead guy in this movie was a guest star on the show Charmed. I found out soon after the film started that Paris is barely in the movie at all, they just used her on the cover to get people to see it- good marketing. The acting in this movie is about par with porn movies- it seems like in some of the scenes the actors had about one take to get it right. The plot is also ridiculous. These supposed High school boys kill a guy and don't even flinch- where is the human emotion that ususally comes with murder? The main character has everything in the world going for him, but he makes the stupid mistake of hanging out with his loser drug-dealing friends anyway even though a person in his shoes would never do that- it is totally unbelievable. This movie is so bad that it makes me not want to go to California ever again because of the way they dipict it. I would recommend anything over this movie- Do Not See It!!!!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible acting, terrible quality, very unbelievable..., May 18, 2005

By	Nicole (Phillipsburg, NJ) - See all my reviews

I only rented this movie because Paris Hilton was on the cover. Little did I know it isn't about her at all...and she's only in about 10 minutes of it. The film quality is terrible and it really looks like someone went outside with a home video camera and taped it. On top of that, the acting is very bad. The actors show no emotion at all. And...the events are completly unbelievable. These rich kids just go around killing people for stupid reasons (like someone owes them $80) and they never get caught. On top of all that, whoever edited the movie put little stupid effects like a twinkle on this one rich guy's tooth when he smiled. Everything about this movie was dumb. I really think anyone could go out, buy a video camera and some cheap editing program, and make a movie better than this. If it didn't have Paris Hilton...it would have NOTHING going for it.