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Very Bad Things movie storyline. Before his wedding to fiancée Laura (Cameron Diaz), Kyle Fisher (Jon Favreau) organizes a bachelor party in a Las Vegas hotel with his friends: Charles Moore (Leland Orser), Robert Boyd (Christian Slater), brothers Adam and Michael Berkow (Daniel Stern and Jeremy Piven).
Michael pays Tina (Kobe Tai), a stripper/prostitute, for sex in the bathroom who dies during sex after her head is accidentally impaled by a clothes hook on a door. Soon thereafter, a security guard comes to investigate the ruckus and discovers Tina’s corpse. In desperation, Boyd stabs the guard to death. Boyd convinces the group to dismember the bodies, bury them in the desert, and never speak of it again.
At the rehearsal dinner, Adam cracks under the pressure, leading to a confrontation with Michael outside. The fight is broken up and Michael is convinced to leave. While leaving, he tries to ram his jeep into Adam’s beloved minivan. Adam runs in front of his van and is crushed in the collision. In the hospital, Adam whispers something to his wife Lois (Jeanne Tripplehorn) before dying, as Boyd looks on through a glass window.
Lois demands answers about what happened in Las Vegas. Fisher makes up a story about Adam sleeping with a prostitute. Boyd, suspecting she does not believe them, kills Lois. Later, Boyd calls Fisher and Moore to bring Michael to the house, where he kills him. He concocts a story about a Michael/Lois/Adam love triangle to answer any interrogation by police. After these events and being named beneficiary of Adam and Lois’ estate, Fisher breaks down and confesses the story to Laura, who demands that the wedding she has dreamed about proceed as planned.
On the wedding day, Boyd confronts Fisher, demanding the money from Adam’s life insurance policy. Fisher refuses and a fight ensues which ends with Laura bludgeoning Boyd. During the ceremony, Fisher and Moore realize that Boyd has the wedding rings. Moore goes to retrieve them, opening a door that knocks Boyd down a stairwell where he dies. Laura demands Fisher bury Boyd’s body in the desert and then ensure no loose ends remain by killing Moore.
Ultimately, Fisher cannot go through with the act and as he drives home, he loses focus and crashes into an oncoming car.Before his wedding to fiancée Laura (Cameron Diaz), Kyle Fisher (Jon Favreau) organizes a bachelor party in a Las Vegas hotel with his friends: Charles Moore (Leland Orser), Robert Boyd (Christian Slater), brothers Adam and Michael Berkow (Daniel Stern and Jeremy Piven).
Very Bad Things is a 1998 American black comedy film directed by Peter Berg. It stars Christian Slater, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Stern, Jeremy Piven, Jon Favreau, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Leland Orser, Tyler Cole Malinger and Pancho Demmings.
Very Bad Things (1998)
Directed by: Peter Berg
Starring: Christian Slater, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Stern, Jeremy Piven, Jon Favreau, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Leland Orser, Tyler Cole Malinger, Pancho Demmings
Screenplay by: Peter Berg
Production Design by: Dina Lipton
Cinematography by: David Hennings
Film Editing by: Dan Lebental
Costume Design by: Terry Dresbach
Set Decoration by: Kathy Lucas
Art Direction by: Michael Atwell
Music by: Stewart Copeland
MPAA Rating: R for strong, grisly violence, sexuality, drug use and language.
Distributed by: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Release Date: November 25, 1998
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