''Rave'' is a 2000 American

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film written and directed by Ronald Krauss and starring

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, Aimee Graham,

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, Tamara Mello, and

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Premise

On a Saturday night in downtown Los Angeles, several teenagers converge at a

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. The teens range from Daffy, an upstanding Mexican-American from a good home; Jay Hoon, a Korean-American teen who defies his strict father to go to the rave; JP and his friend Lazy; and rich girl trio Sadie, Mary, and Tracy. In one day, we see a portrait of these teenagers finding their way through all the temptations, attractions and dangers of the wild underbelly of Los Angeles.

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Reception

Dennis Harvey of ''

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'' gave the film a negative review, citing its clichéd, by-the-numbers plotlines. He wrote, "No more imaginative than its title, indie feature exploits a rave as colorful background for retrograde troubled-youth dramatics that pile on one alarmist cliche — drug O.D.,

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, Parents Who Don’t Love Enough, etc. — after another to absolutely no credible effect." Harvey concluded "Most real-life teens, not to mention ravers, will find ''Rave'' absurdly condescending and exploitative." Marc Savlov of ''

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'' wrote, "The acting and technique (not to mention a rousing credit sequence) are uniformly good, but viewers familiar with the rave scene may come away feeling as if they've just been hit over the head with an

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two-by-four. Peace, love, unity, and respect may be the bywords of rave culture, but Krauss' film plays more like a dreary ABC After-School Special in which common teenage quandaries result in death or worse, and your friendly neighborhood E dealer is a psycho killer."

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* *{{AllMovie title, id=246258, title=Rave 2000 films 2000 drama films 2000 independent films American drama films American LGBT-related films American teen drama films 2000s teen drama films Films set in Los Angeles 2000s English-language films 2000s American films

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