Rating: R
Genre:
Thriller
Theatrical Release: 02/02/2001(USA
Release Date: 05/22/2001
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 92 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Brief Nudity, Adult Situations, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Lions Gate
An alienated young man begins to question his own sanity in the wake of a horrible crime in the
psychological thriller Fever.
Nick Parker (
Henry Thomas) is an aspiring artist who spends his evenings working on paintings and teaches art at the local YMCA to make ends meet.
Nick has an apartment in a run-down building, where he often finds himself arguing with the landlord,
Sidney (
Sandor Tecsy). One night,
Nick is disturbed by loud noises from the apartment above; he soon discovers the room has been rented to
Will (
David O'Hara), a threatening character who doesn't particularly care that
Nick asked for an apartment without upstairs neighbors so he could work in peace. When
Sidney is soon found murdered,
Nick is questioned by a police detective (
Bill Duke);
Nick tells him he saw
Sidney arguing with a drunk he evicted a few days before. However, when
Nick passes the story along to
Will,
Will angrily replies that the old rummy wasn't capable of such a brutal crime. Before long,
Nick starts sinking deeper into paranoia, wondering if his occasional rages might have something to do with his building's sudden crime wave.
Fever was directed by
Alex Winter, best known for his role opposite
Keanu Reeves in
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure; the film was screened in the Directors Fortnight series at the
1999 Cannes Film Festival.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
;)
