And you thought Cruel Intentions broke down barriers…
The 10th Anniversary trailer for the high school drama Dare has arrived. Through the magic of our queer Hollywood connections, we also have the first look.
For those that who a reminder, Dare stars rising starlets Emmy Rossum and Rooney Mara alongside longtime vets Alan Cumming and Sandra Bernhard. The story follows a group of high schoolers (Rossum, Mara, Zach Gilford, and Ashley Springer) who decide to engage in a little sexual experimentation. What starts out as innocent flirtation begins to take on dark and threatening gravity, in particular after the school’s bad boy Johnny (Gilford) and the gay outcast Ben (Springer) develop a passionate connection.
Related: Dare Is This Generation’s Breakfast Club. And Has a Hot Pool Scene
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Dare debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and proceeded to earn positive notice on the festival circuit. The new, 10th Anniversary restoration of the film debuts on VOD today, June 1.
Have a look at the exclusive trailer. You’ll need to uncross your legs.
Manrico Jimenez
Rooney Mara was great as the girl with the dragon tattoo, it’s too bad Sony decided not to make the sequels.
simulations
Oh my sweet summer child. They did make a sequel. It’s terrible! Just pretend we never had this conversation and be happy in a world with only one English-language Dragon Tattoo film.
Cam
Check out the original Swedish films with Noomi Rapace. They’re very good.
David Reddish
Cam is correct. Noomi Rapace is amazing.
cobaltT
I wish Zach Gilford had been more of a thing. He was so damn cute!
Cam
He was already closet to 30 when this movie was made. He was great in Friday Night Lights, but I guess directors didn’t want to cast him for more adult roles and he eventually got too old to play students is my guess.
sean_denoyer
He hasn’t gone away. He’s on the “Good Girls” series playing a hot divorced daddy.
WillParkinson
I liked the short better. It let you think of how the movie was going to be. This? Meh, not at all interesting (to me only, because I admit I have weird taste in movies).
RickyK
I liked the movie, but I loved the short — maybe because it left more to the imagination. (I also think Adam Fleming, who plays Ben in the short, is really cute).
Did anybody see The Dare Project, which continued the “Dare” storyline? I really liked it, and I’m hoping they do a third installment down the road.