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Overview

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6.6/10   801 votes
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Writers:
Scott McGehee (written by) and
David Siegel (written by)
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Release Date:
24 August 1994 (France) more
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A thriller where nothing is black and white.
Plot:
Brothers Vincent (rich) and Clay (poor) meet up for the first time after their father's funeral and remark on how similar they look... more | add synopsis
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2 wins & 5 nominations more
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(2 articles)
Film: Review:Uncertainty
 (From The AV Club. 12 November 2009, 12:08 PM, PST)

David Siegel And Scott McGehee, Uncertainty
 (From Filmmaker Magazine_Director Interviews. 11 November 2009, 10:09 AM, PST)

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off-beat stylish with unconventional music that works great more (24 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Dennis Haysbert ... Clay Arlington
Mel Harris ... Dr. Renee Descartes
Sab Shimono ... Dr. Max Shinoda
Dina Merrill ... Alice Jameson
Michael Harris ... Vincent Towers

David Graf ... Lt. Weismann
Fran Ryan ... Mrs. Lucerne
John Ingle ... Sidney Callahan
Sanford Gibbons ... Dr. Fuller (as Sandy Gibbons)
Mark DeMichele ... Detective Joe

Sandra Ellis Lafferty ... Nurse Stevens (as Sandra Lafferty)
Capri Darling ... Soprano

Carol Kiernan ... Ticket Agent
Laura Groppe ... Sportswoman
Mel Coleman ... Sportsman
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Runtime:
96 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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References Double Indemnity (1944) more
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off-beat stylish with unconventional music that works great, 4 August 2001
Author: rogierr from Amsterdam, Netherlands

The cinematography (Greg Gardiner) is obviously the most outstanding in this b/w psychological thriller, that I found reminiscent of 'Seconds' (Frankenheimer, 1966), due to the identity problem and the unconventional progression of the story. BE sure to see this in widescreen, for it will lose its appealing character in full-frame. The performances from the cast aren't really convincing enough for that matter. I guess they have a hard time keeping up with the off-beat vision of the directors. That vision crystallizes into an almost expressionist and sometimes minimalist worldview without turning into imagery. Visually, this film could only have been made after or before the eighties, because in the eighties the cinematic style and art direction would probably have been taken for granted (without actually being something Michael Mann would have made) while it is actually subtle and intentionally pregnant, as is the music. Recommendations are most films by John Frankenheimer, 'The Limey' (Soderbergh, 1999), and visually maybe 'Das Kabinett des doktor Caligari' (Wiene, 1920).

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