HIDE AND SEEK
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United States, 2005
U.S. Release Date: 1/28/05 (wide)
Running Length: 1:42
MPAA Classification: R (Violence)
Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Cast: Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen, Elisabeth Shue, Amy Irving, Dylan Baker
Director: John Polson
Producer: Barry Josephson
Screenplay: Ari Schlossberg
Cinematography: Dariusz Wolski
Music: John Ottman
U.S. Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Movie Rental Review Rating: 2/10
David Callaway (Robert De Niro) is a newly single father left to raise his nine-year-old daughter Emily (Dakota Fanning). Soon David discovers Emily caught in a maze of evil.
HIDE AND SEEK is a bad and very predicable movie. The only thing going for this movie is Robert De Niro and Dakota Fanning. Although Robert’s performance is not a shinning light in his career, Dakota played a convincing role of a girl reaching out because of extraordinary circumstances.
The HIDE AND SEEK story starts out with David’s wife (Amy Irving) committed suicide causing him to move their lives to a secluded upstate New York house in the hopes of starting over. Katherine (Famke Janssen) does not want them to go because she is trying to help Emily out of her mental void because of her mother’s suicide. Once Emily arrives in this new home, she becomes very angry and withdrawn, barely speaking. When her father meets a new female friend, Elizabeth (Elisabeth Shue) and is hostile towards her. Emily finds a new friend that is invisible named Charlie. Charlie likes to play games, games like HIDE AND SEEK. The only real twist is finding out, who is Charlie.
Here at the Movie Rental Review we found this to be a disappointment, better luck next time.
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Here is what others are saying about it:
“I like horror films, but I don’t like to feel jerked around by them.”
– Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert
“… is an audience’s worst nightmare: a suspense thriller without much of either.”
– E! Online
“… is a thriller without thrills.”
– San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
“… if there were an Oscar for ‘most derivative drama,’ voters would have to go no further.”
– USA Today Mike Clark
