Neil Patrick Harris, post-"Doogie Howser M.D." and pre-"How I Met Your Mother" starred as a loner outcast who is tormented by a sadistic bully at an alternative school for troubled kids in "Animal Room" (1995). It's interesting to see Harris as anything but the hip, popular character he plays now in movies, tv shows, awards shows and on and on. A pre-"Scream" Matthew Lillard played the bully and sported a hairdo very similar to Demi Moore's in the movie "Ghost" (1990). When he had his head turned down in some scenes, I kept thinking he would lift it up and I'd be staring at Demi Moore instead of Matthew Lillard. "7th Heaven's" wholesome mom Catherine Hicks played Harris' alcoholic one in this movie and Amanda Peet appeared as the girlfriend of one of the kids at the alternative school. I read that the movie was somewhat modeled after "A Clockwork Orange" (1971) and although I've not seen that movie in its entirety, there is a scene in "Animal Room" that was very reminiscent of a scene I did see in "A Clockwork Orange." One thing I liked about the movie is that it took place in Atlantic City, New Jersey. There were several scenes of the boardwalk, although they didn't play a major role in the film. It was still nice to see them. And it was nice to see this movie, too. I had never heard of it before.
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