What is rich and self-indulgent teenagers of Upper East Side have in common with low-life ghetto scum? Drugs, of course. Particularly a recent, very addictive and expensive variant called "Twelve".
The young peddler that brings together the two different worlds is White Mike (Chace Crawford). Mike was a normal kid until his mum dies of cancer. Unable to cope, he drops out of school and starts dealing illegal substances to high-society kids.
Everything starts spiraling out of control in domino manner for Mike and his clients in one night of incident.
His junkie cousin is killed and best friend Hunter (Philip Ettinger) wrongfully accused of the crime. Ex-school mate Jessica Brayson (Emily Meade) get herself hooked to Twelve. Preppy snowflake was a top student but now willing to do anything to score again. Jessica's friend Sara Ludlow (Esti Ginzburg) is the most popular girl in school and in her own words 'a shallow narcissistic bitch who manipulates everyone for everything'. She charms one of her many admirers Chris (Rory Culkin) to hold her 18th. birthday party at his parent's lush apartment. The gawky lad has his own problems especially with hotheaded druggie brother Claude (Billy Magnussen) who is about to go off the deep end. They are all connected tenuously to the new narcotic and matters come to a culmination at the party.
There is no groundbreaking stuff here. Joel Schumacher takes the easy way out and chooses to concentrate on the obvious and clichéd aftermath of drug abuse but viewers will be turned off by the thin plot with unsympathetic characters. Wallows in preachy BS.
Background narration by Kiefer Sutherland aimed at extrapolating the players is intrusive than anything else.
The young peddler that brings together the two different worlds is White Mike (Chace Crawford). Mike was a normal kid until his mum dies of cancer. Unable to cope, he drops out of school and starts dealing illegal substances to high-society kids.
Everything starts spiraling out of control in domino manner for Mike and his clients in one night of incident.
His junkie cousin is killed and best friend Hunter (Philip Ettinger) wrongfully accused of the crime. Ex-school mate Jessica Brayson (Emily Meade) get herself hooked to Twelve. Preppy snowflake was a top student but now willing to do anything to score again. Jessica's friend Sara Ludlow (Esti Ginzburg) is the most popular girl in school and in her own words 'a shallow narcissistic bitch who manipulates everyone for everything'. She charms one of her many admirers Chris (Rory Culkin) to hold her 18th. birthday party at his parent's lush apartment. The gawky lad has his own problems especially with hotheaded druggie brother Claude (Billy Magnussen) who is about to go off the deep end. They are all connected tenuously to the new narcotic and matters come to a culmination at the party.
There is no groundbreaking stuff here. Joel Schumacher takes the easy way out and chooses to concentrate on the obvious and clichéd aftermath of drug abuse but viewers will be turned off by the thin plot with unsympathetic characters. Wallows in preachy BS.
Background narration by Kiefer Sutherland aimed at extrapolating the players is intrusive than anything else.