The Pact

1999 "Sometimes best friends can be the deadliest"

The Pact

5.5 | 1h34m | R | en | Drama

After witnessing the killing of his parents, a teenage boy is put in a witness relocation program and sent to a boarding school in Canada to start a new life. He soon befriends a fellow student, who is actually undercover for the bad guys & looking for him.. will they discover the truth about each other? Can their new friendship survive?

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5.5 | 1h34m | R | en | Drama , Thriller , Crime | More Info

Released: January. 01,1999 | Released Producted By: Libra Pictures , Allegro Films Country: Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Cast

Rider Strong , Adam Frost , Lisa Zane

Director

Bert Tougas

Producted By

Libra Pictures , Allegro Films

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Reviews

SnoopyStyle Greg Sherman (Adam Frost) witnesses his parents' murders by gunmen. His corrupt father was cooperating against crime boss Dominic Patton (Nick Mancuso). Jerome Carver (John Heard) puts him into witness protection as Steven Spencer attending a private boys' school in Montreal. Patton tracks down his location. With limited photograph of Greg, the hired gunmen have to narrow down the target. Greg befriends fellow newbie Lenny Dalton (Rider Strong).Everything screams cheaper Canadian movie. The adults get side scenes. Rider Strong coming off of Boy Meets World is probably the only one of the kids who shows any spark. The perfunctory lead Adam Frost is a bit of a stiff although his character doesn't help. It boils down to Rider Strong and an intriguing twist. It's also intriguing to turn the traditional point of view inside out although this would probably work better to stay with traditional lead character Greg. Just switch the actors playing them. The other way to do this is to keep Greg a mystery. That way, the audience is figuring it out along with Lenny. Either way would be better.

parveenchandra11 I remember watching this on Hallmark, a long, long time ago. I loved it as a middle-schooler! Saw it again, after 15+ years... Time flies!The focus of the story is the friendship between the two boys... the hit-man and the target, as it turns out. I can see how the moment of the teenage hit-man's poignant realization that he's only being used, that the man he looks up to doesn't really care a fig about him, might seem too cliché and obvious to some... Not me :DWatching it again, I think the movie has held up pretty decently: 10/10.

Havan_IronOak I really wanted to like this story and was willing to suspend disbelief but this film just had too many continuity/believability problems to allow that for long.The two leads are both attractive young men and it was fun watching their friendship form. It was also fun watching the inter-relationships between the other boys but I kept getting distracted by just how unlikely the plot devices were. Also, the next time a head master of a distinguished private school is giving a speech and the best literary reference that he can make in his speech is a lame reference to Great Expectations perhaps the head master's speech should be written out. Before watching this I'd recommend School Ties (1992) or Dead Poets Society (1989) or The Emperor's Club (2002) or even A Separate Peace (2004) (TV) All have much more convincing plot lines than this. In two separate spots the "villain" is about to be lurking just around the corner when something saves him. The villain is looking for one kid on a list of about 8 and the kid we KNOW he's looking for keeps making obvious mistakes that would clue in anyone who was really looking in a heartbeat. e.g. claiming to be from Tampa and not knowing whether its on the Atlantic or the Gulf. It also bothered me how dyslexia was tossed about as a plot point without any real understanding or compassion.The actors did great with what they had to work with but this could have really used at least one more script revision before it got shot.

parky-3 It's tough being a kid sometimes. Especially when you watch a hit-man murder both your parents in front of you in cold blood. So you're put on the Witness Protection Program. You find a friend, and it seems like maybe this world ain't so bad after all. Then it turns out that your new buddy works for your parents' killer. It all adds up to a tragic life for one kid, meaning we get to sit and watch a passable thriller for two hours.