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Wicker Park (2004)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:7
Rotten:22
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
I am giving it thumbs up because of a very attractive cast and they do a wonderful job with what they got.
This film is genuinely interested in getting us inside the heads of its three leads (Matthew, Alex, and Lisa). It wants us to understand, although not necessarily sympathize with, all three of them.
Takes plenty of twists and turns, each so implausible and silly that you have no interest whatsoever in finding out what the next one will be.
McGuigan seems to have invested more in the youth and glamour of his cast than in a plausible and exacting script.
A limp and exceedingly uninvolving melodrama about -- gasp! -- a series of unfortunate miscommunications.
This is a smart movie, full of astonishing reverses and switchbacks, and it adroitly walks the thin line between too clever by half and not clever enough by three-quarters.
All of this was more enjoyable when Bellucci, Cassel and Bohringer were the stars.
A piece of entertainment as tired and throwaway as a discount Harlequin paperback, but it comes sheathed in the flashiest of book covers.
The plot contains a few nice surprises, but the movie works most spectacularly as a compendium of idiotic movie behavior.
Like eating beans before the opera, you may suffer the embarrassment of unfortunate outbursts at inappropriate moments -- in short, be prepared to laugh in all the wrong places.
There are no thrills, psychological or otherwise; the plot twist comes halfway through and then gets beaten to death; and none of the characters take on any depth or texture beyond their obsessions.
Not a movie that inspires you to turn the puzzle over in your head after it's done. More likely, you'll wish you had amnesia.
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