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Series 7: The Contenders
Directed by
Daniel Minahan
R
2001
87m
[Comedy](/on-demand/category/comedy), [Action](/on-demand/category/action)
6.5
72%
69%
6.3
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A TV program selects people at random to kill one another for fame and their freedom.
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Cast of Series 7: The Contenders
Brooke Smith
Dawn
Mark Woodbury
Dairy Mart Clerk
Michael Kaycheck
Tony
Marylouise Burke
Connie
Richard Venture
Franklin
Donna Hanover
Sheila
Merritt Wever
Lindsay
Glenn Fitzgerald
Jeff
Angelina Phillips
Doria
Tom Gilroy
Dawn's Cameraman
Nada Despotovich
Michelle
Stephen Michael Rinaldi
Craig
Alex Yershov
Nathan
Danton Stone
Bob
Joseph Barrett
Doctor
Shawna Moore
Nurse
Jennifer Van Dyck
Laura
Tanny McDonald
Dawn's Mother
Caitlin Bateman
Colby
Celeste Lecesne
Priest
Series 7: The Contenders Ratings & Reviews
Seattle Times
John Zebrowski
A gritty, disturbing and very funny satire that points the finger as much at its audience as those who make 'reality TV.'
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Series 7 casts us adrift in a contempo world ruled by gladiatorial zeal and bloodless emperors.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
Clever.
Houston Chronicle
Louis B. Parks
Series 7 is clever, hip filmmaking, admirable for its tenacious faithfulness to the world it creates.
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
'Reality' notwithstanding, the performances in this film are uniformly good, and Brooke Smith as Dawn is better than that.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It's as funny as you could reasonably expect without Christopher Guest being involved in the project.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
It seduces us until, damn our black hearts, we've come to really care who wins.
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
Its prescience is sometimes uncanny.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie has one joke and tells it too often, for too long.
Chicago Tribune
Robert K. Elder
Does exactly what independent cinema should -- challenge audiences while it entertains.
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
As entertainment, such dark material can only stretch so far, and Series 7 comes awfully close to being as numbing as the genre it mocks. But its power can't be denied.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
This reality TV spoof is even harder to watch than the sadistic, unwatchable crap it parodies.
Newsday
Jan Stuart
Series 7 is wicked fun, the rare pop-culture send- up that gathers steam as it goes along rather than exhausts us with patronizing winks.
New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
The movie feels facile and blunt spirited.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Smart, witty and assured.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Sounds better than it actually plays.
Slate
David Edelstein
It's only fitting that we emerge from Series 7 feeling both entertained and implicated.
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
There is sharp wit in the writing, and the direction is quite good. Series 7 is undeniably effective, but that doesn't mean you feel good when it's over.
Film.com
Sean P. Means
But the surprise in Series 7 is that through all of Minahan's well-crafted trappings ... a touching character-driven drama emerges in Dawn and Jeff's story.
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