James Marsden, Cameron Diaz, Frank Langella
A small wooden box arrives on the doorstep of a married couple, who know that opening it will grant them a million dollars and kill someone they don't know.
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imagine if the adam and eve story and the twilight zone had a baby and you've got "the box", a taut weird study in the moral and personal ramifications of selfishness. langella rules the day (hello!) as a mysterious force of nature - so greasy you can feel the grease on your fin...( read more)
The Box is a challenging and odd movie. It doesn't hold your hand and guide you through the plot, instead you have to pay attention and figure out what's going on in pieces and fragments. That can be frustrating, but the end result is a movie that will leave you either hating it ...( read more)
The Box is based on a short story by Richard Matheson, and it most definitely feels like it was supposed to be a short story. There's enough story here to maybe fill an episode of Twilight Zone or Tales From the Crypt (though not a very good one), but stretched thin to fi...( read more)
Arlington Steward: If you press the button, Mrs. Lewis, two things will happen. First: someone, somewhere in the world, whom you don't know, will die. Second: you will receive a payment of one million dollars, delivered by me, tax free.
There was a particular sequence during t...( read more)
****-
Quite mystifying. I'm not sure I liked the explanation that was offered.
This movie didn't seem one bit interesting to me. If I hear one good thing about it which I haven't I'll give it a shot.
VIRGINIA 1976 - Norma and Arthur Lewis, played by Cameron Diaz and James Marsden, a suburban couple with a young child in 1976 Virginia, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger, played by Frank Langella, deliver...( read more)
I think that Richard Kelly, from one film to the next, has gone in some very interesting and sometimes puzzling directions. full review
An overlong mess of a movie that's nevertheless eerie and unsettling. You walk away from it feeling befuddled, but definitely weirded-out. full review
If you make a preposterous movie that isn't boring, I count that as some kind of a triumph. full review
Instead of sweeping you along, The Box just sits there like something unclaimed at lost and found. Damaged goods. full review
Kelly tries to gather so many ideas under this movie's umbrella: He has strong ideas about the necessity of compassion in everyday life. He wonders what awaits us after death. But he can't flesh out a... full review
Though his narrative's morality-play suspense and Bernard Herrmann-esque score recall Hitchcock, Kelly seems to have selected the '70s so that he can fully channel early-years Steven Spielberg. full review
check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrKnhOJ-R80, its of a similar concept .. Added: January 25, 2007, 11:49 AM
Bloody Hell! I want it soooooooooooo muuuuuuch! Richard Kelley is aaaaaawesome!
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