Hide and Seek (2005)
12 %
Reviews Counted: 153 Fresh: 19 Rotten:134 Average Rating: 3.8/10
Consensus:
Robert De Niro and especially Dakota Fanning have earned some praise for their work in Hide and Seek, but critics have called the rest of the film derivative, illogical and somewhat silly.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Theatrical Release: Jan 28, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $51,046,989
Synopsis: Dakota Fanning and Robert De Niro slug it out for top acting honors in this creepy psychodrama. After his wife is found dead in the bathtub, Manhattan psychologist David Callaway (De Niro) decides to take his traumatized child, Emily (Fanning), to live in a big, gloomy country house upstate.... [More]
Genre: Thriller
Starring: Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen, Dylan Baker, Robert John Burke
Director: John Polson
Screenwriter: Barry Josephson
Producer: Barry Josephson, Ari Schlossberg
Composer: John Ottman
Screenwriter: Barry Josephson
Producer: Barry Josephson, Ari Schlossberg
Composer: John Ottman
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The movie starts out as one thing and suddenly jumps the tracks into something else. Then there's the question of credibility that this abrupt switch invites.
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03/01/07
A tawdry cocktail of red herrings, cheap psychology, and shameless horror-movie tropes.
10/06/06
This movie has more red herrings than an Agatha Christie novel combined with the aquarium downtown. The real question is, 'How did this stinker attract such a big name cast?'
09/25/06
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06/24/06
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05/26/06
No es lo suficientemente buena para sorprendernos y, en consecuencia, nos manipula.
05/03/06
Shameless in its appropriation of incidents and atmosphere from earlier horror movies, with De Niro giving one of the emptier performances of his latter-day career.
02/07/06
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01/17/06
The best way to tell when things are getting bleak is to check Dakota Fanning's face. When she starts to look like a poached egg, that's when you better hide.
11/18/05
The 'surprise' ending in Hide and Seek is not only unreasonable, but also downright unoriginal.
06/28/05
A lame showcase for DeNiro’s monotonous blankness and the hysterics of Fanning.
06/20/05
What starts out as a promising take on a very serious issue is minced into another standard Hollywood offering.
06/16/05
Hide and Seek may be the most extreme illustration yet of the fears a father faces about his daughter's potential suitors. It's sheer stupidity.
06/12/05
He buys a house that’s far too large for a single parent and his child, obviously selected just because huge, 19th-Century style houses are scarier than two-bedroom condos.
04/23/05
Hide and Seek goes off the rails when the secret is brought into the light because it feels like a cheap gimmick, and not an original one at that...
04/13/05
De Niro gives an intriguing performance....thills, suspense, scares and surprises...
04/09/05
A highly polished turd, perhaps the shiniest money can buy... by now the only way De Niro can shock us is by maybe appearing in a movie that isn't a total embarassment.
03/05/05
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