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Midnight 5 (Tomorrow by midnight)

Threat advisory: Elevated - Significant risk of entertaining activities

Movie propaganda

Severe penalties for late returns.

Midnight 5 is a hip and cool comedy thriller that follows five young people setting out to enjoy night of harmless fun, they're just looking for something to break the monotony of everyday life.

At 11:53 pm they pull into the car park of the quality video store to return some videos and take out a couple more. No harm in that at all. But for Tom (Scott Rinker), Cosmo (Karin Prince), Lee (William Vogt), Sydney (Alexis Arquette) and Kira (Tamara Craig Thomas), and thanks to an obstinate staff member, their evening is about to turn into something that is anything but monotonous...

Also starring Jennifer Lambert as Tori Farrell, Carol Kane as Officer Garfield, Mark Collver as Officer Mason and Robert Donovan as Officer Lambert. Written and directed by Rolfe Kanefsky.

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

Pulp video.

Cashing in on the coolness of filmic intertextuality, and the ability to spot it, Midnight 5 is more about other, bigger, better films than it is about itself. It borrows a lot from Kevin Smith's Clerks in that it's set entirely in a video shop and its car park and realtes the horrors of sub-adult wages for menial jobs. The only light relief comes from the frequent waving around of guns and shooting of innocent bystanders.

Feel free to watch Midnight 5 if you need to take your mind of the realities of life and want to engage in some vigilante violence.

Security censorship classification

MA 15+ (High level violence, medium level sex scene)

Surveillance time

89 minutes (1:29 hours)

Not for public release in Australia before date

VHS rental: 14 February 2001

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