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Overview
Tagline:
You're trapped... and you don't even know it.Plot:
A sci-fi writer (Hutton) is invited to an island for a conference, only to discover that he's become lured into a trap. | full synopsis (warning! may contain spoilers)Awards:
1 win moreUser Comments:
A big could-have-been moreCast
(Credited cast)| Timothy Hutton | ... | David Norton | |
| Lucía Jiménez | ... | Silvia Mendez | |
| David Kelly | ... | Frank Kovak | |
| Georgia Mackenzie | ... | Jane Graham (as Georgia MacKenzie) | |
| Gary Piquer | ... | Jaume | |
| Annette Badland | ... | Kathy | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Jorge Aguado de Gabriel | ... | Man with card | |
| Cristóbal Anaga | ... | Door policeman | |
| Christopher de Andrés | ... | Paramedic | |
| Ana Asensio | ... | CNW Announcer | |
| Nina Bagusat | ... | Hostess | |
| Keith Bartlett | |||
| Jorge Bosch | |||
| Nicholas Boulton | ... | US Consulate Official | |
| Luis Callejo | ... | Caves Caretaker | |
| Kwenya Carreira | ... | Thomas | |
| Helena Carrión | ... | Actress | |
| Félix Casales | ... | Hospital policeman | |
| Fede Celada | ... | Paramedic | |
| Leslie Charles | ... | Villa Manageress | |
| Vicente Colomar | ... | Hotel receptionist | |
| Félix Cubero | ... | Lift Attendant | |
| Lorena Garcia | ... | Hostess | |
| Tacho González | ... | Fred | |
| Jeff Harding | |||
| Alexander Herrmann | ... | Flirting Party-Guest | |
| Alberto Lopez | ... | Tour operator | |
| Albert López-Murtra | |||
| Molly Malcolm | ... | Psychologist | |
| Iván Morales | ... | Charlie | |
| Pepe Ocio | ... | Hotel bellboy | |
| Fiona Ormiston | ... | Mary | |
| May Pascual | ... | Charlie neighbour | |
| Pepe Pau | |||
| Montse Pla | ... | Final Air Hostess | |
| Álvaro Roig | ... | Hotel manager | |
| Artur Sala | ... | Tattooed Man (as Arturo Sala) | |
| Colin Stinton | |||
| Dan Strauss | ... | Doctor | |
| Ben Temple | ... | Roy | |
| Tilly Vosburgh | ... | Amy | |
| Andres Ysbert | ... | Taxi driver | |
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Rated R for some violent and disturbing content, language and brief nudity.Parents Guide:
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Argentina:102 min | USA:102 min (DVD)Language:
EnglishColor:
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Australia:MA (2006) | Portugal:M/12 | Finland:K-15 | Argentina:13 | Australia:MA | Germany:16 | USA:RMOVIEmeter: 
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Continuity: The amount of froth in David's bottle varies during his conversation with Silvia at the bar. moreSoundtrack:
Gloomy Sunday moreFAQ
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"La caja Kovak" follows American science-fiction best-selling author David Norton (Timothy Hutton), who goes on a part business, part pleasure trip to the Spanish island of Mallorca with his girlfriend. He proposes to her and she accepts. On that very night, she jumps off their hotel balcony and kills herself after a short stay at the local hospital. In the bed next to her is Sylvia (Lucía Jiménez), a young woman who found herself jumping off the balcony without having any recollection of how and why she did it. Both women did it right after their phone rang and the song "Gloomy Sunday" began to play on the other end of the line. Together, David and Sylvia decide to try and solve the mystery.
The introduction is well done and it lures you into watching more, wanting to know how a song can make apparently normal people want to kill themselves. However, it evolves into a bizarre and not always efficient mix of thriller and science-fiction that completely fails to keep up the suspenseful and supernatural tone of the start, and is in fact rather dull and inconclusive at times. The characters are also quite poorly written -except for David Kelly's character maybe, the most interesting of the whole bunch- and they become quite predictable, as is the ending. Also, many clues thrown in along the way are never properly answered to.
All in all, it's an okay movie, one to watch and easily forget.