Wicked is a 1998 American thriller independent film

Independent film

An independent film, or indie film, is a professional film production resulting in a feature film that is produced mostly or completely outside of the major film studio system. In addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies, independent films are also produced...

 starring Julia Stiles

Julia Stiles

Julia O'Hara Stiles is an American actress.After beginning her career in small parts in a New York City theatre troupe, she has moved on to leading roles in plays by writers as diverse as William Shakespeare and David Mamet...

 as a disturbed teenager.

Troubled teen daughter Ellie (Julia Stiles

Julia Stiles

Julia O'Hara Stiles is an American actress.After beginning her career in small parts in a New York City theatre troupe, she has moved on to leading roles in plays by writers as diverse as William Shakespeare and David Mamet...

) assumes the role of her dead mother and takes control of her father's life.

Plot

Casa Del Norte is a upscale community where Ellie lives with her parents, younger sister and the Swedish au pair. They all hate the au pair except for Dad, who is having an affair with her. So Mom has an affair with the next door neighbor, until she is found bludgeoned to death on the kitchen floor. In a Hitchcockian twist, Ellie's grief gives way to a twisted obsession to become her mother as well as the object of her father's desire.

Cast

• Julia Stiles
  Julia Stiles
  Julia O'Hara Stiles is an American actress.After beginning her career in small parts in a New York City theatre troupe, she has moved on to leading roles in plays by writers as diverse as William Shakespeare and David Mamet...
  
   as Ellie Christianson
• Michael Parks
  Michael Parks
  Michael Parks is an American actor and singer. He has appeared in almost fifty films and has made frequent TV appearances, but is probably best known for his work in recent years with Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, and Kevin Smith as well as the 1969 television series Then Came...
  
   as Detective Boland
• William R. Moses
  William R. Moses
  William Remington Moses is an American actor.-Early life:Moses was born in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of the late actress Marian McCargo and advertising executive Richard Cantrell Moses, Sr. who divorced in 1963. Marian remarried in 1970 to the late former Republican Congressman...
  
   as Ben Christianson
• Chelsea Field as Karen Christianson
• Vanessa Zima
  Vanessa Zima
  -Early life:Zima was born in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. She is a daughter of Dennis and Marie Zima. She has an older sister, Madeline, and one younger sister, Yvonne.-Career:Zima has played parts in movies such as Ulee's Gold, Zoe and TheBrainiacs.com...
  
   as Inger Christianson
• Louise Myrback as Lena Anderson
• Patrick Muldoon
  Patrick Muldoon
  Patrick Muldoon is an American actor.-Early life:Muldoon was born in San Pedro, California, the son of Deanna, a homemaker, and William Patrick Muldoon II, a personal injury lawyer. He is of Irish descent on his father's side and of Croatian descent on his mother's side...
  
   as Lawson Smith
• Linda Hart
  Linda Hart
  Linda Hart is an American singer, musician, and actress, mainly appearing in musical theatre.- Biography :As a child, Hart sang in her church choir; at age seven, she joined her father and the rest of the family in The Harts, a weekly gospel television series. Hart attended Los Angeles City...
  
   as Mrs. Potter
• Casey Rion as Leon

Release

Wicked debuted at the Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...

in January 1998. It was shelved until Stiles' career ascendancy and re-released on video in 2001.