Very Bad Things

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Very Bad Things

Directed by	Peter Berg
Produced by	Cindy Cowan Diane Nabatoff Michael Schiffer
Written by	Peter Berg
Starring	Christian Slater Cameron Diaz Daniel Stern Jeanne Tripplehorn Jon Favreau Jeremy Piven Leland Orser
Music by	Stewart Copeland Peter Berg Christina Schlieske
Cinematography	David Hennings
Distributed by	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Release date(s)	November 25, 1998
Running time	100 min.
Country	US
Language	English
Budget	$30 million
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Very Bad Things is a 1998 black comedy feature film, directed by Peter Berg. It stars Jon Favreau, Cameron Diaz, and Jeremy Piven, with co-stars Daniel Stern, Christian Slater, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and writer/director Berg.

1 Plot
2 Film culture
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Plot

Kyle Fisher (Favreau) is days away from his wedding and welcomes his stag party weekend as a chance to break free from the pressure from his Bridezilla fiancée,^[1] Laura (Diaz). Things are as chaotic as expected in their hotel in Las Vegas—drink, drugs and a stripper.

However, trouble begins when Kyle's friend Michael (Piven) has sex with the stripper (real-life porn star Kobe Tai) in the hotel bathroom. While having sex with her, he slips and slams her head against a towel hook in the wall, accidentally killing her. When a security guard finds the dead stripper's body, he threatens to call the police but is silenced when he is stabbed to death with a corkscrew. The group decides to bury the bodies in the desert, but soon guilt and nerves begin to destroy the group and their idyllic lives as each of them die or get injured by each other or their attempts to cover things up.

[edit] Film culture

This film falls within a cross-genre film type from the late 1990s and early 2000s in which grooms are saved, or nearly saved, from distasteful marriage.^[1]