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Mood:
- StylizedSuspensefulTenseRough
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Plot:
- Single ParentCrime Gone AwryDomestic DisturbanceMind GameChild in DangerCrimesDangerMind and Soul more...
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Genres:
- Thriller
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Place:
- New YorkIndoorsUrban
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Audience:
- Boys' Night
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Praise:
- BlockbusterCritically Acclaimed
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Flag:
- Mild Violent Content
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Panic Room, 2002
English
USA
Profile of Panic Room
Panic Room can be described as tense, stylized, and suspenseful. The plot revolves around domestic disturbances, a child in danger, and crime gone awry. The main genre is thriller. In approach, Panic Room is serious and realistic. It is set, at least in part, indoors and in an urban environment. It is located in New York. Panic Room takes place in contemporary times. The movie has received attention for being a blockbuster and critically acclaimed. It is well suited for a boys' night. Note that Panic Room involves mild violent content.
Summary of Panic Room
As David Fincher's PANIC ROOM begins, recently divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) halfheartedly tours an old New York City townhouse with her restless young daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart). Using money from her divorce settlement, the unhappy mother decides to buy the spacious home. The former abode of a wealthy eccentric, this townhouse contains an unusual extra feature, a supposedly impenetrable "panic room" equipped with surveillance monitors, a separate phone line, and other survival aids, where residents can hide in case of emergency. When three men--Burnham (Forest Whitaker), Junior (Jared Leto), and Raoul (Dwight Yoakam)--break into their new home, Meg and Sarah end up using the panic room much sooner than they could have possibly imagined. And, unfortunately for them, these intruders are not simple burglars; they possess knowledge that makes the situation much more perilous.
Hitchcockian in its confined setting and carefully doled-out suspense, Fincher's PANIC ROOM is more straightforward than his infamous FIGHT CLUB, though no less engaging. Foster (who replaced Nicole Kidman after she injured herself on the set of MOULIN ROUGE) gives her best performance since THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. The thieves are equally compelling--Whitaker shines as a likeable, sad-eyed security expert; Leto provides comic relief as a talkative brat; and Yoakam is perfectly loathsome as an armed-to-the-teeth psycho. Although the film features some of Fincher's trademark hi-tech effects, its true bells and whistles are the excellent cast, the stunning photography, the moody score, and the simple yet thrilling story.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 29 March 2002 |
| Runtime: | 112 min |
Cast and Crew
as Meg Altman
as Burnham
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Critics Reviews
Rolling Stone
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- by: Peter Travers
Variety
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- by: Todd McCarthy
Users Reviews
- 30.March.2009
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- by: Parker in MN
- Parker in MN rated this movie
4/10Disappointing
- 23.March.2009
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- by: slipknotnyc
- slipknotnyc rated this movie2/10Bad
