THIS IS THE ORIGINAL LEG BRACELET DEVICE SCREEN WORN BY
SHIA LaBEOUF AS KALE BRECHT DURING FILMING OF THE HIT MOVIE: "DISTURBIA".
RECEIVED DIRECTLY FROM THE SET WITH COA FROM DREAMWORKS SKG.
STORYLINE:
Every killer lives next door to someone.
In DreamWorks Pictures' new suspense thriller "Disturbia," the quieter the street, the darker the secrets.
Kale (Shia LaBeouf) has a life most teenagers would envy. He spends his days endlessly playing video games, surfing the net, eating junk food and watching cable. He has complete free reign of the house, and a beautiful young hottie named Ashley (Sarah Roemer) has just moved in nextdoor.
There's only one problem - he's not allowed to leave the house. Kale's under court-ordered house arrest for three months, and if he takes one step beyond a 100-foot perimeter of the house, his next confinement will be in a real prison. And jail cells don't have video games or cable.
Life hasn't always been like this for him. A year ago, Kale and his mom (Carrie-Anne Moss) and dad were a tightknit, happy family. Then his father was killed in a car accident, for which Kale feels somewhat responsible.
The trauma has had long-lasting psychological effects. The once outgoing young man is now shut down and withdrawn. When an insensitive teacher brings up his father, Kale loses it and punches him out. Only the intercession of his mother kept him out of jail.
Now he's going stir crazy in his own house while his mother tries to keep things together by working day and night. As the walls start to close in, Kale starts to notice the world outside. With some secondhand surveillance equipment he begins spying on his neighbors, most prominently Ashley, who soon catches on to him. To his surprise however, she becomes interested in his stakeout hobby.
What starts out as a game turns deadly serious when Kale and Ashley begin to suspect that one of their neighbors (David Morse) may be an elusive serial killer. But who's going to believe them? It may just be their overactive imagination. Or they may have stumbled across a secret that might cost them their lives.
After all, even killers have to live next-door to someone...
TRIVIA:
During filming, David Morse (Mr. Turner) did not speak to Shia LaBeouf (Kale) or any of the other teens. LaBeouf said, "When we finished filming, he was very friendly. But he's a method actor, and as long as we were shooting, he wouldn't say a word to us."
The film's translation in Russia is "Paranoia".
The title "Disturbia" is a play on the word "suburbia".
While David Morse (Mr. Turner) was filming a scene with Shia LaBeouf (Kale), he slammed his hand into a wall, breaking three fingers. LaBeouf said, "You could see that they were broken. They were all mangled. But he didn't say a word about it. Everybody's asking him what they can do to help, and he just says, 'I'm okay. I'm okay. Let's go again.' It was intimidating, to say the least."
The script was written in the 1990's and was optioned. The original studio let the option expire after hearing about 'Christopher Reeves' ' Rear Window remake. It wasn't till 2004 that script was rewritten and sold.
Kale's computer desktop says "Let Me Free" when it's not used.
The book that Ashley is reading while sitting on the roof of her house is Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita.
Steven Spielberg's favorite line from the film is "Operation Stupid is officially over."
Steven Spielberg came up with the idea of the little boy on the Big Wheel going by in Kale's neighborhood.
Disturbia was filmed on location in the cities of Whittier, California and Pasadena, California. The homes of Kale and Mr. Turner, which were supposed to be next door to each other, were actually located in two different cities.
BIOGRAPHY OF SHIE LaBEOUF:
Shia Saide LaBeouf was born June 11, 1986, in Los Angeles, California, to Jeffrey LaBeouf and Shayna Saide, and is an only child. His parents are divorced, and he lives with his mom in Los Angeles. He started his career by doing stand-up comedy around places in his neighborhood, such as coffee clubs.
One day, he saw a friend of his acting on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, and wanted to become an actor. Shia and his mom talked it over, and the next day he started looking for an agent. He searched in the yellow pages, called one up, and did a stand-up routine in front of him. They liked him and signed him, and then he started auditioning. He's well known for playing Louis Stevens in the popular Disney Channel series Even Stevens and has won a Daytime Emmy for his performance.
