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Wicker Park (2004)
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Reviews Counted: 118
Fresh: 27
Rotten:91
Average Rating: 4.3/10
Consensus: Implausible coincidences and an overly convoluted structure make the movie hard to follow or believe.
Theatrical Release:Sep 3, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $12,831,121
Synopsis: In remaking the 1996 French thriller L'APPARTEMENT, director Paul McGuigan transplants the story to the snow-covered Windy City, Chicago. Josh Hartnett is Matthew, a good-looking young man who has... In remaking the 1996 French thriller L'APPARTEMENT, director Paul McGuigan transplants the story to the snow-covered Windy City, Chicago. Josh Hartnett is Matthew, a good-looking young man who has a great job and an even greater girlfriend. But just before he's about to get on a plane to China and score his first major account, the past comes back to haunt him. Matthew runs into his good friend Luke (Matthew Lillard), who is dating a mysterious actress, Alex (Rose Byrne). Suddenly he is reminded of Lisa (Diane Kruger), a beautiful dancer he dated years before. But the day after he asked her to move in with him, Lisa disappeared. Now Matthew's search for his long lost love is renewed. The harder he looks, the more the truth gradually, and devastatingly, begins to reveal itself. McGuigan's stylish, convoluted thriller shifts between the past and present, preventing viewers from solving the puzzle until the film's closing act. Featuring an outstanding soundtrack from some of modern rock's most celebrated artists (Coldplay, Mazzy Star, Broken Social Scene), WICKER PARK also boasts engaging performances from its cast of pretty young faces. [More]
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Diane Kruger, Matthew Lillard, Rose Byrne
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Diane Kruger, Matthew Lillard, Rose Byrne, Jessica Pare
Director: Paul McGuigan
Director: Paul McGuigan
Screenwriter: Brandon Boyce
Producer: Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Marcus Viscidi, Andre Lamal
Studio: MGM/UA
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Reviews for Wicker Park
The filmmakers cannot decide what sort of story they want to tell, and as a result, the story they tell isn't really worth the telling.
Wicker Park frustrates to no end when a smidgen of common sense on anyone’s behalf would clear up everything.
A nice example of what happens to a Hitchcock shrine when it's filtered through a slick punk sensibility.
That Wicker Park becomes as engrossing as it does is particularly shocking, given the almost interminable opening hour...
Take a pretty good script, a pretty good Director, and a horrible cast, and what you get is Wicker Park.
High style masks rather than updates what's essentially conventional in the material, and the plot unfolds on a seeming need-to-know basis. It's aggravating.
Something, Je ne sais quoi, was lost in translation when the French thriller L’Appartement was remade into this obtuse romantic mystery.
I usually prefer a film that stays in a logical sequence but Josh Hartnett is a captivating kind of guy who holds your attention throughout the flashback sequences.
A dull melodrama marked by plot coincidences of staggering stupidity.
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