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Idle Hands movie storyline. Lazy stoner teenager Anton Tobias’ parents wind up dead on Halloween, with all the clues pointing to him. After killing his best friends Pnub and Mick, Anton realizes that his right hand has become possessed. Unable to control his hand, Anton throws his cat across the street and while searching for it, he encounters his neighbor Molly and the two start a relationship. Anton holds a funeral for his parents and friends. However, Pnub and Mick decide not to go to heaven, returning to their former bodies and rising from the grave.
Meanwhile, a druidic high priestess named Debi LeCure is hunting the spirit responsible for killings across the country. After his hand kills two cops in his living room, Anton cuts it off with a cleaver. Pnub and Mick seek out a First-Aid Kit while Anton traps the hand in a microwave, burning it. Meanwhile, Debi (now along with Randy, Anton’s neighbor) hunts Anton down to put a stop to the possessed hand.
After sending Molly to the school dance, Anton returns home to finish off the hand. Unfortunately Pnub and Mick inadvertently release the hand. The three then steal Randy’s truck and head to the school. Mick and Pnub go to the Halloween dance to watch over Molly, while Anton looks for the hand. Randy and Debi meet up with Anton. Debi explains that the hand will drag Molly’s soul into the netherworld. Anton crashes the dance and tries to warn everyone about his hand, but is ignored.
The hand then scalps the band’s lead singer and causes a panic. Molly and her friend Tanya (Katie Wright) escape through the vents. They attempt to go through a fan, which they have stopped with Tanya’s shoe, but Tanya gets hung on the rope, Molly tries to pulls Tanya off the fan and Anton’s hand ends up removing Tanya’s shoe, allowing her to be pulled to her death in the fan. Molly then runs into the art room, causing her to get knocked out.
Anton enters and fights with the hand while it is inside a puppet but it escapes to the auto shop, where Molly is strapped to a car in her bra and panties, being raised toward the ceiling. Anton, Mick, and Pnub fight with the hand over the controls. Mick finds a mechanic’s bong and he and Pnub smoke “for strength”. Anton blows some smoke into the hand (still inside a hand-puppet) until it drops the controls and they save Molly. Debi throws a ritual knife into the hand, stopping it in a puff of smoke and fire.
Idle Hands is a 1999 American stoner black comedy body horror film directed by Rodman Flender, written by Terri Hughes and Ron Milbauer, and starring Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Elden Henson, Jessica Alba, and Vivica A. Fox. The main plot follows the life of an average lazy stoner teenager, Anton Tobias (Sawa), whose hand becomes possessed and goes on a killing spree, even after being cut off from his arm.
The film’s title is based on the saying “idle hands are the Devil’s play-things” or “idle hands do the Devil’s work”.[3] The film was a critical and commercial failure, grossing a little over $4 million from an estimated $25 million budget.
A soundtrack album for Idle Hands was released through Time Bomb Recordings two weeks in advance of the film, featuring mostly punk rock and heavy metal artists. Though appearing on the album, the songs “Enthused” by Blink-182, “Mama Said Knock You Out” by The Waking Hours, “Bleeding Boy” by Disappointment Incorporated, and “My Girlfriend’s Dead” by The Vandals were not used in the film.[11] Chuck Donkers of Allmusic rated the album two stars out of five, remarking that it “befits a combination teen comedy/horror flick that climaxes at a high school dance” and “features songs from over-the-top adolescent favorites”.
Idle Hands (1999)
Directed by: Rodman Flender
Starring: Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Elden Henson, Jessica Alba, Vivica A. Fox, Christopher Hart, Jack Noseworthy, Connie Ray, Sean Whalen, Kelly Monaco
Screenplay by: Terri Hughes, Ron Milbauer
Production Design by: Gregory Melton
Cinematography by: Christopher Baffa
Film Editing by: Stephen E. Rivkin
Set Decoration by: Evette Knight
Art Direction by: Roland Rosenkranz
Music by: Graeme Revell
MPAA Rating: R for horror violence and gore, pervasive teen drug use, language and sexualit.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: April 30, 1999
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