
In Los Angeles, Emily Brown is a kleptomaniac pill addict who misses her father and attends therapy sessions trying to resolve her compulsion. She has a record in the police for shoplifting, and her mother Teresa is a compulsive shopper. Nick, security guard of Bernstein's Department Store, sees Emily through the security camera and becomes fascinated with her. When he gets into trouble dealing ecstasy, he pressures her to help him rob Bernstein's.... (Full plot summary below)
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In Los Angeles, Emily Brown is a kleptomaniac pill addict who misses her father and attends therapy sessions trying to resolve her compulsion. She has a record in the police for shoplifting, and her mother Teresa is a compulsive shopper. Nick, security guard of Bernstein's Department Store, sees Emily through the security camera and becomes fascinated with her. When he gets into trouble dealing ecstasy, he pressures her to help him rob Bernstein's.
Leave your thoughts about Klepto.
| User ReviewJesse TThe high quality of the backwards tracking, continuous Steadicam shot from the parking lot, into and through the department store impressed me almost as much as the opening crane shot in Orson Welles' Something Evil." Meredith Bishop carried her part so well. |
| User ReviewTio BSome may disagree, but I consider this film to contain Jsu Garcia's finest acting since THE LAWLESS LAND. |
| User ReviewCJ CI picked this up for $3, was not expecting much and was pleasantly surprised. The compulsive shoplifter and the non professional store detective develop well in the story together. This is thankfully not just standard hollywood fare but rather something a little different. |
| User ReviewKathleen WClumsy but consistently surprising, low budget aspect paid off in this instance to make the drama feel way more real. Nice style too. Basically it'll pleasantly surprise you but to be honest that's because you already had low expectations. |
| User ReviewMarty BThis was a low-budget effort, but it sort of works. I'm not sure that you really are made to feel sorry for the lead, but maybe that's not the intent. Nice, not so predictable ending. |
| User ReviewEric RSo, I was bored and this was on Amazon Instant and that's about the only reasoning I can give you for me wasting my time with this film. It's essentially about Emily, whose addiction to pills plus the desire to find her father has made her a kleptomaniac. She vies the stealing as a way of release from her life. Nick, a security guard, becomes fascinated with Emily while watching her through the surveillance cameras and when he gets in some trouble with some bad people, he goes to Emily for help. Klepto is one of those films that has a lot of ideas and themes to the point that none of them are pulled off well. The film wants to chronicle this woman's addictions but it does so with no real depth and uses her kleptomania more as a plot device than anything. The voyeuristic aspects of the film are boring and don't amount to anything. The whole father angle is toyed with but is never really examined to any degree besides just bring it up in various dialogue of the script. There are a few fun stylistic decisions where the film uses editing to harpen back to Emily's youth but really its just an idea that never amounts to much emotional depth. In the second half, the film becomes essentially a crime story and its really just boring and stale. There's really not much to like about this film. The script is pretty terrible at times, the acting while decent does have some wooden moments, and the Synth score reminded me of a shitty, uninspired version of 'Drive'. Meredith Bishop, who plays Emily, is sorta hot in a weird chubby faced sorta way I guess, so there's that. |