Genre: Drama/Crime
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Writer: Alex Conn & Chad Taylor
Cast: Nick Robinson, Colin Firth, Ming-Na Wen, Sarah Paulson, Chloe Grace Moretz, Jacob Tremblay, Albert Brooks, Dacre Montgomery
Budget: $24,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $18,704,936
Foreign Box Office: $13,879,112
Total Profit: -$15,481,438
Reaction: Not very strong numbers at all, although it wasn't exactly an easy film to market based on the subject matter. Nick Robinson isn't a big enough name at this point to market a film around, so we tried marketing it based on the plot, but it's a hard story to market without spoiling the ending.
"Nick Robinson plays easily the most unlikable character since every character in Hippies in New York, but thankfully the supporting cast feel more like real humans with real thoughts. They're not all likable, in fact most of them aren't, but they at least feel like characters who had lives before the movie started." - Michael Wilmington, Rolling Stone
"Where a film like The Tower showed the gradual descent of someone into a person capable of mass murder, Isla Vista simply tells the story of a cry baby who eventually buys a gun. While this may be factually accurate, it doesn't make for an interesting narrative arc." - Charles Yost, Oregonian
"The film is well-made from a technical stand point, but I don't feel like we learned anything about Elliot Rodger that we didn't already know: he was a mentally unbalanced jerk. And?" - Dave Cone, New York Post
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Rated R for graphic violence, strong language and some sexual content.
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