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Whiplash

Cast

Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Paul Reiser, Melissa Benoist View All


Crew

Damien Chazelle (Screenplay), Damien Chazelle (Director) View All

Release: Oct. 10th, 2014
Runtime: 1 hour, 47 minutes
Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
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4 Whiplash
Premiered at Sundance, now at Cannes. I'm starting to like the look of this one. ...
0 Whiplash
Hi guys, Normally I'm not a fan of Miles Teller and his work, but having watched the trailer for Whiplash, it looks like my opinion could change. What do you guys think?...
3 Not quite my tempo- Whiplash
Hi everyone.. Please, I need your opinions.. I want to buy a watch for someone that really likes the movie Whiplash with Milles Teller and J.K. Simmons. And I want to engrave on its back the phrase &...
12 Did Whiplash (2014) have to be R rated?
The movie does have a lot of profanity in, as well as a lot of language in the context of homosexual insults, but I feel that it worked legitimately for the story and for the characters, the way it wa...
29 Whiplash – The beat of the movie will keep you hook till the end
Interesting: Miles Teller, who plays Andrew the young jazz drummer, is a self-taught drummer but more rock and roll style and didn’t hold his sticks like a jazz drummer. To help him learn to fake p...

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JayDee
And then at around the hour mark the film takes a brief detour into full-blown melodrama that I felt was unwise and quite frankly unnecessary; the film was doing just fine at generating drama through Andrew's exploits and struggles at his drum set without resorting to something that felt comparative....
MovieMeditation
'Whiplash' gives you together with the central character of the film both sweaty palms, butterflies in your stomach and an almost unstoppable galloping heart rate, which pretty much falls seamlessly in sync with the fast and relentless drum beat that completely dominates the enormous soundscape of....
kathepburn
There is not an ounce of mercy in this character, just the idea (or maybe the delusion) that his disturbing methods will lead one of his students to greatness, and that is clear from the beginning of the film to the very end.
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