Let the Devil Wear Black

REVIEW
If Quentin Tarantino had ever decided to update and desecrate Shakespeare's "Hamlet," he might have come up with this relentlessly irreverent black comedy about a fresh-out-of-rehab L.A. rich kid (Penner) haunted by the idea that his uncle (Sheridan) may have killed his father (Sarandon, seen only in flashbacks) and now plans to marry his not-so-grief-stricken mother (Bisset). But in order to take revenge, he must survive a night populated by L.A. gang-bangers, drug-dealing best friends, and an unknown assassin hired by his uncle to kill him. Penner and Parker are revelations as the world-weary "Hamlet" and his pill-popping "Ophelia," and the script (cowritten by the star and the director) is so venomously witty, you’ll forget it's Shakespeare.