S.F.W.

About S.F.W.

An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to their threats to kill him makes news headlines.

S.F.W. is a 1995 comedy film directed by Jefery Levy. The film is filed under hostage, celebrity, media, and tragic event.

Stephen Dorff appears as Cliff Spab, Reese Witherspoon as Wendy Pfister, Jake Busey as Morrow Streeter, and Joey Lauren Adams as Monica Dice. It runs 96 minutes and was released in January 1995.

The screenplay is by Danny Rubin and Jefery Levy. The film began as a novel. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and fuboTV.

Room, A Farewell to Arms, and Demolition make useful companions to S.F.W., all filed under escape, hospital, and kidnapping. TMDB voters put it at 5.9 out of 10 across 114 votes and it carries a R rating.