The In Crowd starring Lori Heuring,
Susan Ward, Matthew Settle, Nathan
Bexton, Tess Harper
The In Crowd
If you like murder and dig beachwear, youll love The In Crowd. Former
obsessive Adrien is released from a mental institution (cue ominous music)
and her nice psychiatrist finds her a summer job at a snooty country club,
apparently reasoning that theres no better place to rebuild your self-
esteem. Adrien quickly encounters the rich kids, who mostly run around
being rich and beautiful. Rich queen Brittany decides to become Adriens
new best friend. Could it be for (oh, no!) the wrong reasons? Actually, her
reasons turn out to be baffling, along with the rest of the poorly thought-out
plot and thinly sketched characters. Director Mary Lambert makes a game
attempt at building suspense with incredibly dark lighting and generic
Spooky Music, but the script doesnt give her any help. The ending involves
one of those elaborate, Scooby-Doo-ish plots that require knowing
precisely how someone will react and exactly where she will go when she
is very, very upset. Nonetheless, the movie presents lots of attractive

young people in swimwear and provides an excellent opportunity to play
the which-of-these-actors-will-still-have-a-career-next-year game. Enjoy. --
Ali Davis
Personal Review: The In Crowd starring Lori Heuring, Susan
Ward, Matthew Settle, Nathan Bexton, Tess Harper
This saga of catfights between gorgeous rich bitches--none of who seem
to own a bra--is almost a documentary of how to make an awful movie.
With its scantily-clad babes, lurid lesbian come-ons and innuendo-laden
lines like "Didn't mean to get you all wet," The In Crowd aspires to
Showgirls levels of camp, but while the cast of that much-adored stripper
opus did nothing but act, the denizens of The In Crowd couldn't act their
way out of a Ziploc.
Susan Ward (straight from her masterful work on NBC's canceled "Sunset
Beach") stars as Brittany, the teen queen of a hoity-toity summer resort.
Lori Heuring is reformed psycho Adrien, who becomes a cabana girl at
Ward's decadent hot spot. Ward takes Heuring under her wing, and soon,
Bad Things start to happen. Is any of it believable? Only if you think
bisexual teen seductresses exist in the real world. (See WILD THINGS and
CRUEL INTENTIONS for further examination of this epidemic.)
Not surprisingly, the whole feminist nightmare was conceived by two men,
who, while writing, must have had one hand on the computer and one
hand on something else. Meanwhile, Mary Lambert directs as if she is still
making Madonna videos: transparently gay actors are cast as womanizers,
Ward's lip-gloss plays a supporting role and everyone else seems to have
been hired on the basis of how they look in a swimsuit. Politicians will also
note how sex, drugs and booze abound in this PG-13 movie totally aimed
at teens. Offensive? Nah, just laughably inane. Kudos to Ward, who
gleefully dives into her low-rent Basic Instinct-predator role, even if she is
woefully ill-equipped to carry it off.
For the DVD lovers out there, there is a hilariously knowing, self-
deprecating commentary by Ward and Heuring (who are now our two
favorite people in the world) as well as deleted scenes and interviews with
the cast (one of whom is clearly on drugs).
It would seem that Warner Bros. studio executives (circa 2000) would most
likely rather die than release an edgy, thought-provoking film. Thankfully,
they bankrolled this steller Bad Movies laugh-a-thon, which, justifiably,
didn't make a plug nickel.
For lovers of unintentional camp and Bad Movies We Love, THE IN
CROWD is a must see. A worthy addition alongside such modern day
misfires as THE TEMP, THE CRUSH, SINGLE WHITE FEMALE and
BASIC INSTINCT 2. All others should stay far away.

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