Plot - Idle Hands
Anton Tobias (Devon Sawa) is an average lazy stoner teenager. He has two caring parents (Fred Willard and Connie Ray) and two best friends, Pnub (Elden Henson) and Mick (Seth Green). He has a crush on Molly (Jessica Alba), the girl across the street.
Everything is going fine until a string of murders plagues the town. Then, when Anton’s parents wind up dead, all the clues point to Anton. After killing his two best friends, Anton’s hand stabs Mick’s forehead with a bottle, after Anton kills Pnub, Anton’s possessed hand throws a wheel cutter and cuts Pnub’s neck, Pnub’s head falls in to the stairs, he learns that his right hand has become possessed. Anton’s hand throws his cat across the street after fighting for the remote, and while searching for his cat, his hand forces him to ring Molly’s doorbell, the two start a relationship, and the hand has chosen who it wants to drag back into hell with it. Anton holds a funeral of sorts for his parents and friends. However, Pnub and Mick decide not to go to heaven and instead return to their former bodies, (Mick has a bottle in his head and Pnub is decapitated.) With their help Anton must stop his possessed hand.
Meanwhile, a druidic high priestess named Debbie in Utah has found out that when the locations of killings that have happened all over the country are connected in the order they happened, it makes a pentagram.
One day, two friends Mick and Pnub rises in the grave to torturing him, but they can’t torture him. After killing two cops Anton knew from high school, Anton cuts off his hand and Mick cauterizes his wound with an iron. Pnub and Mick go to his place for a First-Aid Kit as Anton battles with his hand, eventually trapping it in a microwave and burning it. Meanwhile, Debbie, now along with Randy, a local motorhead with a monster truck and a neighbor of Anton hunt him down, as Debbie knows how to put a stop to Anton’s possessed hand. After sending Molly to the school dance, to what Anton thinks will be a safe place, Anton returns to his home to finish off the hand. Unfortunately Pnub and Mick opened the microwave to make some burritos and the hand had already escaped. Mick fixes Pnub’s decapitated head and they head to the dance with Anton for the hand.
The three steal Randy’s Ford, accidentally hitting Debbie while backing up, Randy uses “CPR” on her and revives her. Meanwhile, a couple making out in a car are killed, one’s neck being broken, the other’s head bashed in. Anton, Pnub, and Mick see this and split up, Mick & Pnub go to the dance to watch over Molly, While Anton looks for the hand. The hand, meanwhile, kills the principal in his office. Randy and Debbie meet up with Anton, and after attempting to kill him to “stop the evil”, they realize he’s cut off his hand, and it’s loose somewhere in the building, Debbie explains to Anton that the hand will drag Molly’s soul into the netherworld with it at 12:00 Drwdricx time, which is in 6 minutes. Pnub and Mick, meanwhile, are at the dance ‘watching’ over Molly. Anton tries to warn everyone about his hand, but is just booed at for stopping the show, the hand then kills the lead singer at the dance and causes a panic, Molly and her friend Tanya, however, escape through the vents. They end up at a giant fan, Molly uses Tanya’s shoe to stop the fan from moving, and climbs down using a rope, Tanya is too afraid to go, the hand then comes and ties the rope around her neck, then shoves her down, it then removes Tanya’s shoe, causing the rope to pull Tanya into the now moving fan. Molly runs into the art room, only to have a pot smashed on her head by the hand, causing her to faint.
Anton, now searching in the art room, fights with the hand while it’s inside a puppet, as soon as he’s about to finish it off, Mick and Pnub drop from the vents right on top of him, causing it to escape. They hear Molly scream, and find the Hand in an autoshop, with Molly strapped to a car being raised toward a pentagram on the ceiling. Anton, Mick & Pnub fight with the hand over the controls to try stop the car, but the hand has a good grip. Mick finds a Mechanics 3-Chamber Hookah and he and Pnub smoke a bowl “for strength” while Molly is raised toward the roof. Anton takes in some and blows his smoke into the Hand (which is still inside a hand-puppet) getting it stoned, where it drops the controls and they save Molly. Debbie throws a ritual knife into the hand (Which lands in Mick’s chest), stopping it in a puff of smoke and fire. She and Randy take off for “ritualistic sex”, meanwhile Mick and Pnub are fighting over the Mechanics 3-Chamber Hookah, Pnub accidentally hits the controls for the car, and Anton is crushed by the car when the controls lower it too fast.
The movie ends with Anton and Molly in the hospital. Anton has given up heaven to stay with Molly and Mick & Pnub are now his Guardian Angels, sent to see that he doesn’t return to his “evil ways”. After Molly leaves and Mick & Pnub go to the snack bar heaven, shutting off the lights as they leave the heaven, Anton looks at the ceiling to see “IM UNDER THE BED” written in glow in the dark paint. As Anton screams for Mick & Pnub to “come and guard me”, The two joke about how they wrote that and how Anton screams like a girl, and the credits roll.
Directed by: Rodman Flender
Produced by: Jeffrey Sudzin, Andrew Licht
Written by: Terri Hughes - Ron Milbauer
Starring: Devon Sawa
Jessica Alba
Seth Green
Elden Henson
Vivica A. Fox
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release date(s): 30 April 1999
Running time: 92 min.
