URBAN LEGENDS:
THE FINAL CUT
Year: 2000
USA & UK: Columbia TriStar
Cast: Joseph Lawrence, Matthew Davis, Jennifer Morrison, Loretta Devine, Anson Mount, Hart Bochner, Eva Mendez, Michael Bacall, Jessica Cauffiel, Anthony Anderson, Peter Millard, David Sparrow, Joel Gordon, Leland Tilden, Marco Hofschneider, Jenny Kim
Director: John Ottman
Countries: Canada / USA
USA & UK: 98 mins
USA Rated: R for violence/gore, language and some sexuality
UK Certificate: 15 for strong language and horror
USA Release Date: 22 September 2000
UK Release Date: 1 December 2000
Synopsis
Amy (Jennifer Morrison), Travis (Matthew Davis) and Graham (Joseph Lawrence) are student filmmakers who would love to make it big in Hollywood. But first they've got to survive their last semester at Alpine University, a renowned film school where the competition is killer—and someone is killing the competition. At Alpine, one senior student will be awarded the prestigious Hitchcock Award for best thesis film, virtually guaranteeing the winner a film career in Hollywood.
Down-to-earth documentary film student Amy Mayfield wants to take a crack at the Hitchcock. During a chance meeting with Reese (Loretta Devine), the new campus security guard, Amy is inspired by the story of an urban legend at Pendleton University, Reese's former place of employment. Taking a break from documentaries, Amy decides her thesis film will be a fictional, psychological thriller about those contemporary tall tales known as urban legends.
The competition is fierce. Toby (Anson Mount), an aggressive, neurotic student filmmaker, is shooting a horror film that takes place on an airplane. His lead actress, Sandra (Jessica Cauffiel), gives new meaning to the term 'over the top.' Meanwhile, the handsome, artistic Travis (Matthew Davis) is putting the final touches on his film, "The Gods of Men," and Graham (Joseph Lawrence), the son of a Hollywood mogul, has deals of his own brewing.
When Amy's film crew starts falling prey to fatal 'accidents,' she questions where fiction ends and truth begins. When all the dots start to connect back to her, she realizes she must unmask the killer before she, too, becomes an urban legend.