Sand (film)
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Sand is 2000
thriller film, directed and written by Matt Palmieri. It starring Michael Vartan
, Norman Reedus
and Kari Wührer
. Also some hollywood stars have roles in this film including Jon Lovitz
, Harry Dean Stanton
, Emilio Estevez
, Denis Leary
and Julie Delpy
. Film also known as Sandstorm and Nandita Das awarded for her performance in Santa Monica Film Festival.
Having been abandoned by his father Gus (Marshall Bell) when he was an infant, Tyler grew up only with his mother Marina and felt no real ties to Gus or his two stepbrothers Barker & Hardy, (Rodney Eastman & John Hawkes), who were not only beer guzzling coke
heads but also very ill-mannered and an embarrassment to him every time he was with them.
Tyler also wasn't too fond of Gus's good friend and travel companion "Boston" Teddy (Denis Leary), whose obsession with the Kennedy clan of Hyannis-Port MA, as well as John F. Kennedy
's sexual exploits in and out of the White House that even at times got to Gus.
Marina left her son Tyler everything that she had, but Tyler, in a show of good faith, only took the White 1972 Ford LTD and a photo album and left everything else, the house and $6,000.00, to his father Gus. Tyler then took off for the coast to where Marina was born and raised to get away from the "Family" and have some very needed peace and quiet.
Striking up a friendship with Jack (Norman Reedus) and his friends Max, Andy, & Trip, (Bodhi Elfman, Powers Simmons, & Emilio Estevez
) a bunch of local beach boys, Tyler gets to stay at the Higgins home on the beach as a handyman. There he meets and falls in love with Jack's sister Sandy, (Kari Wührer) who just came home for the summer from school.
Life is good for Tyler, with a sweet and loving girlfriend, a new set of friends, a job and a place to live, until one morning "They" come to town- Gus, Teddy, Baker & Hardy, and everything goes downhill after that. Drinking hard booze as well as smoking pot and snorting coke, the quartet, mostly Baker & Hardy, made life miserable not only for Tyler but everyone else in town.
The brothers find Sandy alone in the Higgins house, where Tyler is living , try to rape her, only to be stopped by Gus & Teddy. When Sandy's brother Jack finds out that those who tried to rape his sister were Tyler's stepbrothers Baker & Hardy, he and some of his friends go to the motel where they are staying with Gus & Teddy. Finding them drunk and stoned on coke, Jack works them over, leaving them black and blue and out cold. This leads to Baker and Hardy attacking Jack the next day, who is alone on the beach, and just when they are about to kill him, they get the stuffing knocked out them by Jack's friend Trip, with his homemade baseball bat.
Planning to get even with Jack for what happened to them on the beach (for some reason they weren't interested or couldn't find Trip), Baker & Hardy kidnap and torture Jack's friend Max. Jack and his friend Andy try to come to his rescue only to be kidnapped themselves by the brothers and forced to walk the plank on the pier by the Pacific Ocean. Jack & Andy turn the tables on the duo by fighting them off and having all four of them fall down into the water. Baker & Hardy, being drunk and on drugs and also not knowing how to swim, drown.
The brothers' father, angry at what happened to them, goes out, against Teddy's advice, looking for Jack, only to have Jack show up outside his motel room, with Sandy trying to stop him. Jack rubs it in about what happened to Gus' sons and Gus chases both Jack and Sandy down to the beach and shoots Jack in the leg. He is then finally tackled by Tyler, who puts some sense into his head by telling Gus that killing Jack won't bring Baker & Hardy back, but only destroy his life as well.
2000 in film
The year 2000 in film involved some significant events.The top grosser worldwide was Mission: Impossible II. Domestically in North America, Gladiator won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ....
thriller film, directed and written by Matt Palmieri. It starring Michael Vartan
Michael Vartan
Michael S. Vartan is a French-American film and television actor. He is probably best known for the role of Michael Vaughn on the American television action drama Alias...
, Norman Reedus
Norman Reedus
Norman Mark Reedus is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal as Murphy MacManus in the 1999 film The Boondock Saints as well as its 2009 sequel The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day and for the character of Daryl Dixon in the AMC television series The Walking Dead...
and Kari Wührer
Kari Wührer
Kari Samantha Wührer is an American actress and singer, mostly credited as Kari Wuhrer, sometimes as Kari Salin.-Early life:...
. Also some hollywood stars have roles in this film including Jon Lovitz
Jon Lovitz
Jonathan "Jon" Lovitz is an American comedian, actor, and singer. He is best known as a cast member of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1990.-Early life:...
, Harry Dean Stanton
Harry Dean Stanton
Harry Dean Stanton is an American actor, musician, and singer. Stanton's career has spanned over fifty years, which has seen him star in such films as Paris, Texas, Kelly's Heroes, Dillinger, Alien, Repo Man, The Last Temptation of Christ, Wild at Heart, The Green Mile and The Pledge...
, Emilio Estevez
Emilio Estevez
Emilio Estevez is an American actor, film director, and writer. He started his career as an actor and is well-known for being a member of the acting Brat Pack of the 1980s, starring in The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire...
, Denis Leary
Denis Leary
Denis Colin Leary is an Irish-American actor, comedian, writer and director. Leary is known for his biting, fast paced comedic style and chain smoking...
and Julie Delpy
Julie Delpy
Julie Delpy is a French-American actress, director, screenwriter, and singer-songwriter. She studied filmmaking at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and has directed, written, and acted in more than 30 films, including Europa Europa , The Voyager , Three Colors: White , Before Sunrise...
. Film also known as Sandstorm and Nandita Das awarded for her performance in Santa Monica Film Festival.
Plot
The Briggs family comes together for the first time in over 20 years to attend the funeral and read the will of Marina (Kayle Martin). It is a very uneasy experience for Tyler (Michael Vartan), her son.Having been abandoned by his father Gus (Marshall Bell) when he was an infant, Tyler grew up only with his mother Marina and felt no real ties to Gus or his two stepbrothers Barker & Hardy, (Rodney Eastman & John Hawkes), who were not only beer guzzling coke
Cocaine
Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine. It is a stimulant of the central nervous system, an appetite suppressant, and a topical anesthetic...
heads but also very ill-mannered and an embarrassment to him every time he was with them.
Tyler also wasn't too fond of Gus's good friend and travel companion "Boston" Teddy (Denis Leary), whose obsession with the Kennedy clan of Hyannis-Port MA, as well as John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
's sexual exploits in and out of the White House that even at times got to Gus.
Marina left her son Tyler everything that she had, but Tyler, in a show of good faith, only took the White 1972 Ford LTD and a photo album and left everything else, the house and $6,000.00, to his father Gus. Tyler then took off for the coast to where Marina was born and raised to get away from the "Family" and have some very needed peace and quiet.
Striking up a friendship with Jack (Norman Reedus) and his friends Max, Andy, & Trip, (Bodhi Elfman, Powers Simmons, & Emilio Estevez
Emilio Estevez
Emilio Estevez is an American actor, film director, and writer. He started his career as an actor and is well-known for being a member of the acting Brat Pack of the 1980s, starring in The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire...
) a bunch of local beach boys, Tyler gets to stay at the Higgins home on the beach as a handyman. There he meets and falls in love with Jack's sister Sandy, (Kari Wührer) who just came home for the summer from school.
Life is good for Tyler, with a sweet and loving girlfriend, a new set of friends, a job and a place to live, until one morning "They" come to town- Gus, Teddy, Baker & Hardy, and everything goes downhill after that. Drinking hard booze as well as smoking pot and snorting coke, the quartet, mostly Baker & Hardy, made life miserable not only for Tyler but everyone else in town.
The brothers find Sandy alone in the Higgins house, where Tyler is living , try to rape her, only to be stopped by Gus & Teddy. When Sandy's brother Jack finds out that those who tried to rape his sister were Tyler's stepbrothers Baker & Hardy, he and some of his friends go to the motel where they are staying with Gus & Teddy. Finding them drunk and stoned on coke, Jack works them over, leaving them black and blue and out cold. This leads to Baker and Hardy attacking Jack the next day, who is alone on the beach, and just when they are about to kill him, they get the stuffing knocked out them by Jack's friend Trip, with his homemade baseball bat.
Planning to get even with Jack for what happened to them on the beach (for some reason they weren't interested or couldn't find Trip), Baker & Hardy kidnap and torture Jack's friend Max. Jack and his friend Andy try to come to his rescue only to be kidnapped themselves by the brothers and forced to walk the plank on the pier by the Pacific Ocean. Jack & Andy turn the tables on the duo by fighting them off and having all four of them fall down into the water. Baker & Hardy, being drunk and on drugs and also not knowing how to swim, drown.
The brothers' father, angry at what happened to them, goes out, against Teddy's advice, looking for Jack, only to have Jack show up outside his motel room, with Sandy trying to stop him. Jack rubs it in about what happened to Gus' sons and Gus chases both Jack and Sandy down to the beach and shoots Jack in the leg. He is then finally tackled by Tyler, who puts some sense into his head by telling Gus that killing Jack won't bring Baker & Hardy back, but only destroy his life as well.
Trivia
- In some countries, the film released as direct-to-video.
- Harry Dean StantonHarry Dean StantonHarry Dean Stanton is an American actor, musician, and singer. Stanton's career has spanned over fifty years, which has seen him star in such films as Paris, Texas, Kelly's Heroes, Dillinger, Alien, Repo Man, The Last Temptation of Christ, Wild at Heart, The Green Mile and The Pledge...
and Emilio EstevezEmilio EstevezEmilio Estevez is an American actor, film director, and writer. He started his career as an actor and is well-known for being a member of the acting Brat Pack of the 1980s, starring in The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire...
were together in Repo Man (1984). - It is third film of close-friends Emilio EstevezEmilio EstevezEmilio Estevez is an American actor, film director, and writer. He started his career as an actor and is well-known for being a member of the acting Brat Pack of the 1980s, starring in The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire...
and Denis LearyDenis LearyDenis Colin Leary is an Irish-American actor, comedian, writer and director. Leary is known for his biting, fast paced comedic style and chain smoking...
together.