Year:
2000
Studio:
Fox 2000 Pictures
Movie:
3/5
DVD:
1/5
Here on Earth is a
drama/romance movie from Fox 2000, which is a division of 20th Century
Fox making movies aimed at the teen and young adult audience. Chris
Klein plays rich kid Kelley Morse. One night he and his friends sneak
out from prep school and hang around at the town diner, where they are
not wanted. One thing leads to another and the diner burns down.
Kelley is sentenced to spend the summer helping the construction crew
rebuild the diner. This is not one of those movies where the rich kid
has to live with the commoners and learns to appreciate a "normal"
life. Kelley is very much still a rich kid snob and this whole summer
is a prison sentence for him.
It would be a total loss if not for one person. Samantha (Leelee
Sobieski) is the local hottie and she gravitates towards bad boy
Kelley, much to the consternation of her current boyfriend, and quite
the heartthrob himself, Jasper (Josh Hartnett). Other than the two
young lovers, nobody else thinks this is a good idea on either side of
the financial divide.
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But before
anything deep can really occur, we find out that Sam has
liver cancer and she soon dies a bit after the diner is rebuilt. I'm
not exactly sure what the point of that was, something about living
life to the fullest now.
In any case, it brings the movie to a sad ending, though I'm not too
sure you could have avoided it after painting both Kelley and Jasper as
nice guys. Still, I don't think that's enough to lower the rating to
two stars. Overall it's a nice movie.
DVD Extras
Theatrical Trailer
Television Commercials
Film Trailers
Soundtrack Advertisement
Music Video: "Where You Are" /w Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey
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