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Chocolate War (The)

Country: USA, Language: English, 100 mins

  • Director: Keith Gordon
  • Writer: Robert Cormier; Keith Gordon
  • Producer: Ron Diamond; Jonathan D. Krane

CGiii Comment

The first 30 minutes are really rather pointless...correction, the whole thing is totally pointless.

The monks look like a bunch of camp hairdressers...

It is very difficult to take anything seriously in this primitive adaption of schoolboys selling boxes of chocolates (it's a metaphor, duh!) - doesn't sound too thrilling or gripping and that's because it most certainly is not.

The soundtrack of mainly British artists is possibly one of the most bizarre - nothing matches with what is actually going on, the Peter Gabriel sequence is just plain weird.

Gordon's debut, as a director, is totally unchallenging and flaccid...surprising with all the teen boys...hormones.

A thorough annihilation of a disturbing book.


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The(ir) Blurb...

A surreal portrait of a Catholic Private School and its hierarchy. A new student must submit to the bizarre rituals of his peers and the expectations of the school's administration by selling chocolates.

Cast & Characters

John Glover as Brother Leon;
Ilan Mitchell-Smith as Jerry;
Wallace Langham as Archie;
Doug Hutchison as Obie;
Corey Gunnestad as Goober;
Brent David Fraser as Emile Janza;
Robert Davenport as Brian Cochran;
Jenny Wright as Lisa;
Bud Cort as Brother Jacques;
Adam Baldwin as Carter;
Ethan Sandler as Caroni;
Wayne Young as Gregory Bailey;
Kurt Bloom as Impressed Kid on Bus;
Wyeth Orestes Johnston as Senior 'Environment' Kid;
Landon Wine as Frank Bollo