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Beside Still Waters (2013/Cinedigm DVD)


Picture: C Sound: C Extras: B Film: C+



Daniel's parents just died and he has to sell the house, so he has invited his friends over for one last huzzah to relive their glory days of high school drinking, drugs, pranks and wild sex. It's a weekend where anything goes and there are no rules, but when secrets start coming out of the closets will their friendships ever be the same again? Daniel is an adult who never grew up, after his parents died in an accident the first thing he does is buy tons of beer and has a party with his old high school drinking buddies in Chris Lowell's Beside Still Waters (2013).


While his friends (like him) have a fondness for their childhood memories at the house, they aren't however really fond of Daniel. Rather they came because they feel guilty and needed to escape from their own problems which they have either in their own life/marriage (but then isn't that what friends are there for?). In the end, they discover all of them have skeletons and regrets in the closet, and only finds out after drinking all night. Daniel commits adultery, another guy comes out as he's gay, and the girls complain about their marriages and lack of good sex. All good things must come to an end, but will their secrets break and destroy the relationships between them all?


This film seemed to sum up the American lifestyle/mid-life crisis, funerals, and typical college weekends. The world seems to look better through a bottom of an empty beer bottle ...that is until the next morning and a person wakes up and says "Oh my god. What have I done?" While I don't recommend this as a lifestyle or solution to a mid-life crisis, the characters themselves were interesting and the relationships/stories to another, throw in a bit of drinking, games, skinny dipping, drugs, and you almost got a Shakespeare play going on.


The anamorphically enhanced image and lossy Dolby Digital sound were as dull as the film, while extras include deleted scenes, alternate ending, behind the scenes, and commentary.



- Ricky Chiang


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