My Friend Dahmer
Directed by:
Marc MeyersScreenplay:
Marc MeyersCinematography:
Daniel KatzComposer:
Andrew HollanderCast:
Ross Lynch, Vincent Kartheiser, Anne Heche, Dallas Roberts, Alex Wolff, Miles Robbins, Tommy Nelson, Katie Stottlemire, Cameron McKendry, Liam Koeth (more)VOD (1)
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Jeffrey Dahmer murdered seventeen men and boys in the Midwest United States between 1978 and 1991 before being captured and incarcerated. This is the story before that story. Jeff Dahmer (Ross Lynch) is an awkward teenager who collects roadkill. It’s the end of his junior year and he’s practically invisible. His family life (Anne Heche as Joyce Dahmer) is coming undone. He fixates on a neighborhood jogger (Vincent Kartheiser) who routinely passes by his house. By the start of senior year, he acts out, throwing epileptic-like fits in the halls. His goofball antics win over a group of band-nerds who form The Dahmer Fan Club headed by Derf Backderf (Alex Wolff). This camaraderie can’t mask his growing depravity. Approaching graduation Jeff spirals further out of control. He retreats into alcohol. He stalks the jogger. He devolves into dissecting small animals, then a neighbor’s dog. We fear one of his friends is next. (Madman Entertainment)
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The American movie My Friend Dahmer took an interesting character from true crime and put him in fiction. They then made him a dopey dude who had a hard time in life just because he was different. He turns out to be actually no different than any other similar movie character - and I am staying on the fact that he is primarily a movie character here - that we find in similar movies that focus on the reasons why people murder and are murdered.
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