| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Josh Hartnett |
Matthew
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| Matthew Lillard |
Luke
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| Diane Kruger |
Lisa
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| Christopher Cousins |
Daniel
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| Rose Byrne |
Alex
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| Vlasta Vrana |
Jeweller
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| Ted Whittall |
Walter
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| Amy Sobol |
Ellie
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| Isabel Dos Santos |
Chamber Maid
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| Jessica Paré |
Rebecca
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Drama; Thriller; Romance; Mystery |
| Director |
Paul McGuigan |
| Producer |
Gary Lucchesi; Tom Rosenberg; Andre Lamal |
| Writer |
Brandon Boyce; Gilles Mimouni |
| Studio |
MGM/UA |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| Running Time |
115 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
| IMDb Rating |
6.8 |
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| Plot |
| No, Josh Hartnett doesn't make the most convincing corporate up-and-comer in the world, but then Matthew, his character in this pensive romantic drama, is supposed to be uncomfortable in his business costume. He's a photographer at heart, a sensitive guy who abandoned that passion when Lisa (Diane Kruger), his enigmatic other true love, abandoned him. Their romance had an oddly abrupt end after Lisa left without a word, so when Matthew thinks he sees her upon returning to Chicago, he starts lying to his fiancée and practically stalking his old flame before becoming entangled in a strange tryst with a lovesick nurse (Rose Byrne). The MGM publicity department busied itself trying to promote this remake of L'Appartement (1996) as some kind of heavy-breathing Fatal Attraction, and director Paul McGuigan certainly fills it with enough slick split-screens and MTV-soundtrack moments to hype it, yet it isn't even remotely a thriller. There are flashbacks upon flashbacks--Vanilla Sky begins to feel linear in comparison--and the screenplay insists on spelling everything out so we'll be sure to get how thoughtful it really is, but it all isn't half bad. Though Hartnett is a little out of his depth, his gentle, beleaguered masculinity works well, and the women are both compelling: Kruger redeems herself after being more wooden than the Trojan Horse in Troy, and Byrne is quite good. Even Matthew Lillard does solid work as Matthew's vulnerable, big-talking buddy. Somewhere in all of it is a surprisingly adult look at the things people do when love seems either too perilously close or too far away to believe in. --Steve Wiecking |
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| Product Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
Theatrical Widescreen (2.35:1) |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
027616921529 |
| Release Date |
6/7/2005 |
| Subtitles |
English; French; Spanish; Italian; English (Closed Captioned) |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Audio Tracks |
Dolby Digital 5.1 [English]
Dolby Digital 5.1 [Italian]
Dolby Digital Surround [French] |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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| Color Closed-captioned Widescreen |
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