Valentine (movie)
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| Directed by | Jamie Blanks |
| Produced by | Dylan Sellers |
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Valentine by Tom Savage |
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| Music by | Don Davis |
| Cinematography | Rick Bota |
| Edited by | Steve Mirkovich |
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96 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $10 million |
| Box office | $36.7 million |
Valentine is a 2001 American slasher film directed by Jamie Blanks, and starring Denise Richards, David Boreanaz, Marley Shelton, Jessica Capshaw, and Katherine Heigl. Loosely based on the novel of the same name by Tom Savage, the film follows a group of women in San Francisco who are stalked by a man whom they tormented during their childhood.
Release theatrically in February 2001, the film received mixed reviews from critics, with some praising its performances and cinematography, and others criticizing its conclusion and deeming it too redolent of 1980s horror films. In spite of the mixed critical response, the film was a box office success, earning a total of USD$36.7 million.
At a junior high school St. Valentine's Day dance in 1988, Jeremy Melton, an outcast student, asks four popular girls to dance. The first three girls, Shelley, Lily, and Paige reject him cruelly, while the fourth girl Kate, politely responds "maybe later". Their overweight friend Dorothy accepts Jeremy's invitation and they proceed to secretly make out underneath the bleachers. When bully Joe Tulga and his friends discover the pair, Dorothy claims that Jeremy sexually assaulted her, causing Joe and his friends to publicly strip and severely beat him, and his nose starts bleeding under the distress. He is expelled and transferred to a reform school.
Thirteen years later, Shelley, now a medical student at UCLA, is at the morgue one evening studying on a cadaver. After receiving a vulgar Valentine's card in her locker, she is attacked by a man in a trench coat and Cupid mask. She is cornered in a cooler used to store cadavers, where she attempts to hide in a body bag, but she is found and has her throat slit by the killer. The killer's nose is seen to bleed as he performs the act.
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