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Hide and Seek (2005)

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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.
 

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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.... 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. The shadow of the twisty backyard woods--or something darker--soon creeps over the house and Emily finds a weird friend named Charlie, who her father believes is only imaginary. Charlie likes to play games, and is also very jealous of anyone who tries to come between Emily and her dad, like an attractive local divorcee (Elizabeth Shue) and Emily's New York psychiatrist (Famke Jannsen). Director John Polson takes his time letting the little details of the story accrue in the patently somber tradition of directors like M. Night Shyamalan. John Ottman's score is spooky, the photography is drenched in warm colors, and the mood is relentlessly strange and unsettling. De Niro is fine as a wheezing, aging doctor who can't seem to fathom the extent to which his domestic situation has moved past his control. Of course there's a shocking twist or two, plenty of jolts, red herrings, and sinister woodland explorations (including a dark and foreboding cave), but the spookiest ingredient in this potboiler is the brilliant Fanning. With her jet black hair, pale skin, and wide blue eyes, she enters the realm of instant horror iconhood as the alternately frightened and frightening Emily. Other cast members include Dylan Baker as the local sheriff, and Amy Irving, excellent in her few scenes as Emily's mother. [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

DVD Info

Release:

Jun 20, 2006

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case - Sensormatic
  • Full Frame - 1.33

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Dolby Surround 2.0 - Spanish, French
  • Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Alternate Scenes - 1. Deleted/Alternate Scenes with Optional Commentary
  • 2. Alternate Endings (4)
  • Audio Commentary - John Polson - Director; Ari Schlossberg - Screenwriter; Jeffrey Ford - Editor
  • Behind the Scenes - Making-Of

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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
Harry Haun
Film Journal International
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A tawdry cocktail of red herrings, cheap psychology, and shameless horror-movie tropes.

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10/06/06
Nathan Rabin
Onion AV Club
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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?'

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09/25/06
Russ Breimeier
Christianity Today
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06/24/06
Time Out
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05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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2.5/4

No es lo suficientemente buena para sorprendernos y, en consecuencia, nos manipula.

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05/03/06
Flavio J. Arosemena
Doncinema.com
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04/01/06
Empire Magazine
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1.5/4

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.

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02/07/06
Kurt Loder
MTV
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01/17/06
Sydney Morning Herald
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12/06/05
Film Threat
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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.

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11/18/05
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
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1/5

The 'surprise' ending in Hide and Seek is not only unreasonable, but also downright unoriginal.

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06/28/05
Uri Lessing
eFilmCritic.com
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A lame showcase for DeNiro’s monotonous blankness and the hysterics of Fanning.

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06/20/05
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness
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What starts out as a promising take on a very serious issue is minced into another standard Hollywood offering.

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06/16/05
Bill Clark
FromTheBalcony
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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.

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06/12/05
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)
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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.

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04/23/05
Jeremy C. Fox
Pajiba
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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...

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04/13/05
Mark Pfeiffer
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
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De Niro gives an intriguing performance....thills, suspense, scares and surprises...

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04/09/05
Clint Morris
Moviehole
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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.

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03/05/05
Sean Burns
Philadelphia Weekly
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... ultimately nothing more than a derivative slasher film

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03/04/05
Dawn Taylor
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