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Verdict: Proof positive that being twentysomething isn't pretty.

Details: Starring Sean Patrick Flanery, Jerry O'Connell and Amanda Peet. Directed by Michael Cristofer. Rated R for strong sexual content, including graphic sex-related dialogue, profanity, violence and alcohol abuse. 1 hour, 42 minutes.

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Review: "Body Shots" is everything you never see in typical movies about party-down twentysomethings. Darker than "200 Cigarettes," more chilling than "Go."

It's almost as unhappy as "Happiness." And as anyone who saw Todd Solondz's 1998 superdowner about modern family life knows, that's pretty grim.

But though it may be no fun at all, "Body Shots" delivers the goods. It has a capable eight-member ensemble cast, including Sean Patrick Flanery, Jerry O'Connell and Amanda Peet, who traipse through Los Angeles nightlife in an alcoholic stupor and doom themselves with rampant sex.

By the time they wake up, at least two members of the group — Sarah (Tara Reid) and Michael (O'Connell) — are wondering what exactly happened. Theirs is a drama fogged by alcoholic blackout from a steady stream of shooters: Was I raped? Did I rape her?

The film is quick, brutal and ugly. If you see it, just don't be stupid and take a date.

— Bob Longino, Cox News Service

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