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Hide And Seek [DVD] [2005]
enlarge	Director: John Polson Actors: Robert De Niro, Stewart Summers, Jack Dylan Baumer, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£19.99~~ Buy Used: £0.29 as of 22/11/2009 14:40 GMT details You Save: £19.70 (99%) New (15) Used (68) from £0.29 Seller: zoverstocks Rating: 29 reviews Sales Rank: 5764 Format: PAL, Widescreen Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 97 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5039036020350 ASIN: B0009HBN4Q Theatrical Release Date: 2005 Release Date: July 25, 2005 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review Dakota Fanning--the elfin star of iUptown Girls/i, iThe Cat in the Hat/i, and iMan on Fire/i--trades in her blond locks for a semi-gothic brunette do in iHide and Seek/i. Fanning plays Emily, a young girl whose mother commits suicide. To help Emily through the trauma, her father David (Robert DeNiro), a psychologist, takes her to an isolated house in upstate New York. But instead of healing, Emily gets dark circles under her eyes, mutilates her favorite doll, and develops an imaginary friend named Charlie. In no time at all, things get spooky and David suspects this imaginary friend isn't so friendly. iHide and Seek/i owes a lot to iThe Shining/i, but whether the creepiness is borrowed or not, there's a decent dose of it (though the twist at the end is unlikely to surprise many viewers). DeNiro does his job with professional gloss, but Fanning carries the movie; she's got the kind of charisma that goes beyond acting ability--that ineffable glow that makes an audience want to watch her. i--Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com/i

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 29 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next » A most impressive, intelligent, suspenseful thriller December 31, 2005 Daniel Jolley (Shelby, North Carolina USA) 9 out of 10 found this review helpful Once again, I find myself completely enamored with a film that many viewers obviously didn#x27;t like. I#x27;m at a loss to explain others#x27; displeasure, as I found Hide and Seek to be an exemplary film with a wonderfully pervasive dark aura, oodles of suspense, a genuinely excellent script, standout performances by both Robert De Niro and young Dakota Fanning, and an ending with plenty of shock value that also manages to play itself out well up through the very end. It#x27;s going to be hard to really explain my take on the excellence of this film, though, because it just won#x27;t do to give future viewers more than a rudimentary glimpse at the basic story. Maybe those who disliked the film knew too much going in; such knowledge would rob Hide and Seek of most of its dramatic power. pDe Niro is always good; when you sit and watch the guy work, it#x27;s hard to call anyone else in Hollywood a real actor - and the character he played had to have such a great actor in order to make this film be all it could be. It also needed a great child actress, and Dakota Fanning may well be the best up and coming actress out there. She more than holds her own against De Niro, basically giving an adult performance as Emily, a young girl haunted by the death of her mother. After finding his wife dead in the bathtub, David Calloway (De Niro) decides to move with his daughter to a quiet country house outside the Big City. Emily is having a rough time dealing with the trauma of her mother#x27;s death, and he thinks she needs a brand new start, free of the bad memories haunting her. Their new, quiet life proves to be less than ideal - and increasingly downright unhealthy. The townsfolk they interact with are just plain weird, Emily becomes increasingly withdrawn, and David, despite the fact that he#x27;s a well-established psychologist, seems at a loss as to how to help his little girl. Things take an increasingly dark turn after Emily establishes a friendship with Charley. She seems to be displacing her own negative feelings through an imaginary friend, but the whole Charley situation eventually gets out of hand - and in a pretty major way. pLike a lot of psychological suspense thrillers, the film tends to move fairly slowly early on. It#x27;s important that we get to know these characters as deeply as we can before the dramatic part of the story really heats up. Fanning really is an experienced adult actress in a child#x27;s body, and it#x27;s amazing to watch her develop her character (both physically and emotionally) into an increasingly disturbed, haunted child. The supporting cast is excellent, each one of them contributing greatly to the sense of wrongness that seems to hold the whole community in its dark grip. All of these things combine to make the film#x27;s conclusion pay off big time, at least in my opinion (although there was one little illogical issue that bothered me somewhat). Hide and Seek, once all is said and done, clearly makes perfect sense, and I for one consider it a most impressive psychological thriller. I will never play hide and seek again!! August 24, 2005 6 out of 7 found this review helpful This film is brilliant and I didn't have high hopes for it,brthe acting is excellent and Dakota Fanning is probably the best and scariest child actor I have ever seen,brbut what took me by suprise was the ending, totally unexpected.brEverything about it is excellent.brI would suggest it to people who liked Identity. Slow moving thriller December 28, 2006 crazykat (staffordshire) 3 out of 5 found this review helpful First of all, if you are not into sloer moving thrillers, you probably will not like this. IT's a dull film, though has some suspense of what is happeneing, the characters make the movie great and finding a good thriller like this is very hard a lot of the time. br /I love this! An intense psychological thriller December 11, 2008 Victoria Hill (UK) This film had me hooked from start to finish. It was deeply psychological all the way through, as well as mystifying, intense, creepy as well as plain 'jump out of the skin' frightening at times. I loved the fact that it made you rely on your own thoughts to figure out just what Charlie was all the way through the film. I didn't know whether the daughter had gone crazy, whether it was a ghost or a monster or what. I liked that about the film. I find things are more scary when it's not obvious what they are. The ending was superb and not what I expected at all. The actors were also very good, especially Dakota Fanning as the troubled little girl. All in all this is an extrememly good thriller and one that I'd love to watch again, even though I know who Charlie is. I'm never playing Hide and Seek again! July 29, 2005 Kemp (Northampton, Northamptonshire, England) 12 out of 12 found this review helpful After the suicide of his wife Dr David Calloway (Robert DeNiro) moves to a remote part of America in order to help his daughter Emily (Dakota Fanning) recover from the trauma only for her to find an invisible friend called Charlie . . .pVery good! This film had me glued to the screen. With a gradual build up, at times slow, the film becomes darker and scarier until the final twist at the end which was a bit of a let down but still fitted perfectly with the film. Robert DeNiro did a great performance but it was Dakota Fanning who stole the show as the creepy daughter.pI looked at the alternate endings and personally I felt that the third and forth were the only ones worth a look at. The DVD also includes the usual 'Making Of' feauterette (worth a look), commentaries and deleted scenes.pOverall, with a good storyline, great performances, a creepy feel, a bit of suspense, you will never want to play Hide and Seek again. Showing reviews 1-5 of 29 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next »

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