The Bling Ring

Living the Dream, One Heist at a Time

Based on a true story, this is the tale of a group of celebrity-obsessed teens who break in their idols' homes while they are away, and help themselves to their goods and money, which they use for hard partying. However with modern security systems filming them during their breakins, it's only a matter of time before the law catches up with them.

92 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Language, Drug abuse).
Biographical, Crime, Drama, On the art circuit

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I'll write the book while I'm in prison...

Credits

Cast	Katie Chang, Israel Broussanrd, Emma Watson, Claire Julien, Taissa Farmiga, Georgia Rock, Leslie Mann
Director	Sofia Coppola
Screenplay	Sofia Coppola, based on an article by Nancy Jo Sales
Music	Daniel Lopatin, Brian Reitzell
Cinematography	Christopher Blauvelt, Harris Savides
Editing	Sarah Flack
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Datasat
Soundtrack	Available
SA distributor	Ster-Kinekor
Made in	2013
Produced by	American Zoetrope, NALA Films, Pathé Distribution, StudioCanal, TOBIS Film, Tohokushinsha Film

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Drama, crime
Language	Strong, frequent
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	None
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	Frequent, use of marijuana and cocaine, strong impact
Comments	A group of older teenagers becomes obsessed with fame and celebrity status believing that they will gain this ideal state by involving themselves in criminal acts (breaking and entering and committing robbery). Mature themes of celebrity obsession and fame.
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 16 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith Glitzy look at vacuous Hollywood teenagers.	10
Die Burger Laetitia Pople Hoekom hét ons hier gekom?	15
Cape Times Todd McCarthy Celebrity thieves.	10
ReelViews James Berardinelli I can't say that The Bling Ring is without merit or purpose, but I can say that it's not entirely successful.	13
ScreenIt C. Fuchs Much of The Bling Ring ends up feeling glitzy but too shallow, sort of like the celebrity world it's exploring.	10
Metacritic.com 40 critics	13
Rottentomatoes critics 176 critics	13
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer While it's certainly timely and beautifully filmed, The Bling Ring suffers from director Sofia Coppola's failure to delve beneath the surface of its shallow protagonists' real-life crimes.	12
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	14
CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation	10
What the People say
Internet 29064 Netizens Coppola Disappoints Amidst a Creative Idea	11
Average .. 60%	12