Below Utopia

1997 American film

September 26, 1997 (1997-09-26)

Running time

88 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Below Utopia, also known as Body Count,^[2] is a 1997 independent film directed by Kurt Voss. The movie stars Justin Theroux, Alyssa Milano and Ice-T. Milano was also the executive producer of the film. Ice-T had composed an instrumental musical score for this film that was not used. The compositions instead appeared on a CD entitled "Below Utopia: The Lost Score". The video release was on March 17, 1998. The DVD release was followed on October 23, 2001. It is also one of the films on a two-pack DVD. The other film is Out-of-Sync.

Plot

Daniel returns to his family's mansion for the holidays along with his girlfriend Susanne. His family's seemingly utopian existence is overshadowed by not only the death of Daniel's brother, but also by Daniel's failure to live up to his brother's potential. However, this quickly becomes inconsequential, as blood-thirsty killers soon show up to steal the artwork, and whatever else they can find in the house. As the family members are killed, Daniel flees with Susanne in the basement, hoping for survival. Daniel reveals that he not only knows the blood-thirsty killers and is in on the whole thing, but was also responsible for the death of his brother. Daniel kills all the "art thieves" and starts to stage the scene when one of his siblings "rises from the dead" to foil his plan. He is caught in the act of trying to strangle him by Susanne and what ensues is a battle not only for her life, but the life of his last-surviving family member.

Cast

Alyssa Milano as Susanne^[3]
Justin Theroux as Daniel Beckett^[2]
Ice-T as Jim
Tommy 'Tiny' Lister as Tiny
Robert Pine as Uncle Wilson
Marta Kristen as Marilyn Beckett^[4]

References

^ Wall, C. Edward (1998). "Below Utopia". Media Review Digest. 28. Pierian Press: 49. ISBN 9780876503539. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
^ ^a ^b Paskin, Willa (July 21, 2014). "Who Is Justin Theroux, Really?". ELLE. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
^ Albers, Beverly (2010). The Alyssa Milano Handbook - Everything You Need to Know about Alyssa Milano. Lightning Source Incorporated. ISBN 978-1742444598.
^ Lisanti, Tom (February 25, 2013). Drive-in Dream Girls: A Galaxy of B-Movie Starlets of the Sixties. McFarland. p. 274. ISBN 978-0786493425. Retrieved 19 March 2018.