All-American Murder: A smart-ass college student gets caught up in a web of deceit, lies, and murder.

This is a great B-grade thriller with a sense of humor starring Charlie Schlatter and Christopher Walken. Both are perfect for this quirky film where style is far more important than plot, although the plot isn't half bad. It isn't great, but it has its moments, as well as some great, albeit not quite realistic, dialogue. It reminds me a bit of Crimes of Passion in some ways. It isn't for everybody, but it deserves more recognition than it received.

Mitchell Anderson plays Doug (not Tom) Sawyer, a preppie college guy with a dark side. His ever-so-slightly over-the-top acting fits perfectly into this movie. The scene in which he confesses his foreboding sexual secrets (accompanied by glimpses of raw, animalistic sex acts) is great, and should prove to everyone that a gay actor can indeed play a heterosexual character.

Click here for a tiny, low-frame-rate QuickTime movie (215K) of Mitchell acting like a bad-ass, his cheesiest performance in this movie.