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Key Information
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| Directors: |
John Polson |
| Stars: |
Dakota Fanning |
| Actors: |
Dylan Baker |
| Genre: |
Horror/Suspense |
| Subgenre: |
Suspense · Haunted Houses · Crime |
| MPAA Rating: |
R (MPAA) |
| Available Formats: |
DVD |
| UPC: |
024543188612 |
| Release Date: |
2005 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 40min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: Bilingual Version Full Frame, 1hr 40min Release Company: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (July 05, 2005) UPC: 024543188643 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS: Spanish Version, 1hr 40min Release Company: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (July 05, 2005) UPC: 024543188698 |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Barry Josephson |
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Professional Reviews
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(01/28/2005, p.E20, Manohla Dargis): "Miss Fanning has both chops and a preternaturally intense screen presence..." |
| More Information |
| Details: |
Dakota Fanning and Robert De Niro slug it out for top acting honors in this creepy psychodrama. After his wife is found dead in the bathtub, Manhattan psychologist David Callaway (De Niro) decides to take his traumatized child, Emily (Fanning), to live in a big, gloomy country house upstate. The shadow of the twisty backyard woods--or something darker--soon creeps over the house and Emily finds a weird friend named Charlie, who her father believes is only imaginary. Charlie likes to play games, and is also very jealous of anyone who tries to come between Emily and her dad, like an attractive local divorcee (Elizabeth Shue) and Emily's New York psychiatrist (Famke Jannsen). <br> <br> Director John Polson takes his time letting the little details of the story accrue in the patently somber tradition of directors like M. Night Shyamalan. John Ottman's score is spooky, the photography is drenched in warm colors, and the mood is relentlessly strange and unsettling. De Niro is fine as a wheezing, aging doctor ... |
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