The Curve

The Curve.  A 1998 thriller starring Matthew Lillard, Keri Russell and Michael Vartan.  I love this movie, Mathew Lillard is one of my favoret actors  and have never come across a role that I didn't like him in.  I especially like when he is playing a villain.  He plays the somewhat psycho killer roles very well and this one was no exception.  The story follows Tim, Chris and Rand who are campus roommates. After hearing of a school policy, which says that anyone whose roommate commits suicide gets an automatic 4.0 GPA, Tim and Chris plot to kill Rand and make it look like suicide. After the suicide, Rand's girlfriend Natalie (the roommate of Chris' girlfriend Emma) is distraught and commits suicide as well. The story takes several plot twists as each persons motives come to light and the truth is revealed.  Dan Rosen did a great job writing and directing this film in my opinion.  Actually Dan Rosen and score composer Shark music supervised the film (credited as Pajama Party Productions). Prior to the start of filming, they made a mix tape of music they were considering for the film. Each actor was given the tape as background to their characters. When editor Glen Garland was putting together the first edit of the film he used music from this mix tape as temp. Many of the songs ended up in the final film.