Blood and Chocolate (2007)

A young teenage werewolf (Bruckner) is torn between honoring her family's secret and her love for a man (Dancy).

Director:

Katja von Garnier

Writers:

Ehren Kruger (screenplay), Christopher Landon (screenplay),

Stars:

Agnes Bruckner, Hugh Dancy, Olivier Martinez

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Agnes Bruckner	...	Vivian
Hugh Dancy	...	Aiden
Olivier Martinez	...	Gabriel
Katja Riemann	...	Astrid
Bryan Dick	...	Rafe
Chris Geere	...	Ulf
Tom Harper	...	Gregor
John Kerr	...	Finn
Jack Wilson	...	Willem
Vitalie Ursu	...	Constani
Bogdan Voda	...	Albu
Kata Dobó	...	Beatrice
Rodica Mandache	...	Mrs. Bellagra
Sandu Mihai Gruia	...	Pharmacist (as Sandu Gruia)
Helga Racz	...	Young Vivian

Storyline

In Bucharest, Romania, the orphan Vivian was raised by her aunt after losing her parents ten years ago in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado. His family belongs to a bloodline of werewolves and Vivian is promised to the leader of the pack, Gabriel. When the American cartoonist Aiden, who is researching werewolves for his publisher for the next edition of his magazine, meets Vivian, they immediately fall in love for each other. However, the evil son of Gabriel and Vivian's cousin Rafe poisons Gabriel about the love of Vivian, forcing her to choose between her bounds with her family and her passion for Aiden.

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Plot Keywords:

love | werewolf | bucharest romania | murder | rocky mountains | 

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Taglines:

Everyone has two lives. The one we show the world. And the one that was never meant to be seen.

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Genres:

Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for violence/terror, some sexuality and substance abuse

Details

Official Sites:

MGM [us] Official site [ru]

Country:

USA UK Germany Romania

Language:

English Romanian

Release Date:

26 January 2007 (USA)

Also Known As:

Blood & Chocolate

Filming Locations:

Bucharest, Romania

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$2,074,300 (USA) (26 January 2007)

Gross:

$3,525,161 (USA) (23 March 2007)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Berrick Filmproduktion, Blood & Chocolate Productions Ltd., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

98 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The role of Vivian was originally offered to Jennifer Love Hewitt.

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Quotes

Rafe: Sorry about earlier... perhaps if you met the *real me*!

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Connections

Featured in HypaSpace: Episode #6.20 (2007)

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Soundtracks

"Eu Te Iubesc Prea Mult"
Written and Performed by Nicolae Guta

User Reviews

Don't immediately dismiss this movie. It is surprisingly well done.

I have to admit, I didn't walk into the theater with high hopes. All the talk about it not being close to the book creep-ed me out and I braced myself for disappointment. But it didn't come. The movie did have some down points that could have been avoided, but that wasn't enough to make it bad.

Hugh Dancy's acting was great, and he was unbelievably cute in the movie. Agnes Bruckner was not much to watch. She didn't really bring anything special to the screen, and her acting was very robotic. The rest of the cast was awesome.

I think the best part about the movie was the Cinematography. I really enjoyed the effects and the camera movements were highly skilled and a joy to watch.

Now the bad part. For all the people out there that have read the book(which includes me) and liked it, you could be in for a wild ride. They made drastic changes to major parts of the book, one would be the removment of Vivians Mother, Esme, which through the movie off balance for a bit. It does, however, pick up the pieces and comes off with a very interesting story instead.

One other thing I didn't fancy about the movie was Rafe and the Five. The fact that they ended up to be Vivians cousins, or at least Rafe, which takes away another good story found in the book. Gabriel certainly isn't like his character in the book and that really saddened me. Out of all the characters, he was very one dimensional.

Now, the movie is nothing like the book except for a few major details and the producers added there own twist to them. If you ask me, lots of the changes were un-called for, but you just have to look past them. If you put the book out of your mind when you go to see it and try not to compare (which ended up to be very easy since the movie is so different you can't even tell it was based on the book) then I think you will enjoy this. You have to to try to like it for what it is and not hate it for what it should be. Oh, and don't bring you little kitties to this. There are a few gore scenes(not to explicit but enough) and some mature content. I wouldn't have categorized it as horror, but it does have a certain atmosphere that gives you the chills. I highly recommend this movie for it is the best werewolf movie you will probably ever run into. I rate it 9/10, and that is only because it is not enough like the book that is should be.