Compliance
When a prank caller claiming to be a police officer convinces Sandra, the manager of a fast food restaurant in the ChickWich chain to interrogate Becky, an innocent young employee, no one is left unharmed.
20 June 1986, Tampa, Florida, USA
29 November 1978, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
7 April 1965, Teaneck, New Jersey, USA
6 August 1977, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
1959, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
October 14, 2016
Zobel does a great job of just making you uncomfortable, making you want to just yell at the screen and tell the characters to just stop.
September 14, 2014
Compliance is diminutively sufficient and blandly adequate with no additional layers that elevate its small independent nature. It feels rather one note riding on the promise of a distinctive tale that never totally comes to fulfillment.
September 23, 2012
The point of Compliance, which caused walkouts and shouting matches when it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, is how we are programmed to do things that go against our natural instincts as long as we believe we have the law on our side.
May 26, 2013
It never loses sight of its goal to persuade us to be more aware, more questioning of our leaders and institutions, from politicians to priests to, in this case, the police.
September 06, 2012
This is one insistent film, more evocative of human behavior than movies that take fewer risks ever could be.
January 08, 2013
Compliance is one of the toughest sits of the movie year 2012. But it's an uncompromising and, in its way, honorable drama built upon a prank call that goes on and on, getting worse and worse for the people on the other end of the line.
August 31, 2012
Like a John Hughes movie hijacked by Roman Polanski, this troubling indie effort lays bare the sadomasochism of the American workplace.
September 22, 2012
There's the adage that life is nasty, brutish and short. It's even worse when you're half-naked and locked in a supply room with your boss.
August 24, 2015
Dark, disturbing, confrontational stuff. Also a damn good film.
May 22, 2013
The only film of 2012 that had me actively booing its villain - a mundane monster who doesn't need to touch his victims to scar them for life.
February 26, 2013
A riveting, horrifying film, shot through with beautifully observed moments of unwelcome truth.
December 15, 2013
A frightening look at the power of authority and the human desire to avoid conflict.
