“A Hardboiled High School Movie” – Medium
“A teen-centric riff on the noir formula” – Film School Rejects
“Bizarre and ingenious neo-noir from writer-director Rian Johnson” – Guardian
CELEBRATE ‘BACK TO SCHOOL’ SEASON AT THE REVUE WITH RIAN JOHNSON’ MEMORABLE HIGH SCHOOL NOIR DEBUT!
After a phone call from his ex-girlfriend, teenage loner Brendan Frye learns that her dead body was found. Vowing to solve her murder himself, he must infiltrate high-school cliques that he previously avoided. His search for the truth brings him before some of the school’s roughest characters.