The Curve

Dan Rosen directed this thriller, filmed in and around Baltimore, based on the college urban legend that you get a cool 4.0 semester grade if your roommate commits suicide. Roommates Rand (Randall Batinkoff), manipulative Tim (Matthew Lillard), and good-guy Chris (Michael Vartan) are seniors at a university where this legend is legit. Since Rand mistreats his pregnant girlfriend Natalie (Tamara Craig Thomas), he’s the obvious choice. Tim gets Cliff to assist in Rand’s “suicidal” leap from a cliff — but with that foul deed done, Tim points the police in Chris’s direction and then seduces Chris’ girlfriend Emma (Keri Russell). After Natalie really does commit suicide, students, cops, and the campus psychiatrist (Dana Delaney) begin to ask probing questions. Track tunes include The Cure, Suzanne Vega, Joy Division, and The Smiths. Shown at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival., Black comedy focusing on the homicidal antics of two students desperate to stay in college. When Chris and Tim discover that they automatically become eligible for higher grades should their unpopular third roommate commit suicide, they set their sights on his swift demise., A clever whodunit about two college students who plan to kill a fellow student and make it look like a suicide because of a policy that will then grant them perfect grades. Chris: Michael Vartan. Tim: Matthew Lillard. Emma: Keri Russell. Rand: Randall Batinkoff. Dr. Ashley: Dana Delany., Dan Rosen directed this thriller, based on the college urban legend that you get a cool 4 semester grade if your roommate commits suicide. Roommates Rand, manipulative Tim, and good-guy Chris are seniors at a university where this legend is legit. Since Rand mistreats his pregnant girlfriend Natalie, he’s the obvious choice. Tim gets Cliff to assist in Rand’s “suicidal” leap from a cliff – but with that foul deed done, Tim points the police in Chris’s direction and then seduces Chris’ girlfriend Emma. After Natalie really does commit suicide, students, cops, and the campus psychiatrist begin to ask probing questions.