The Girl in the Park (2007)

Director:

David Auburn

Writer:

David Auburn (writer)

Release Date:

12 September 2008 (Germany)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Enduringly traumatized by the disappearance of her 3-year-old daughter 15 years ago, Julia Sandburg...

Plot Keywords:

Park | Playground

Cast

Sigourney Weaver	...	Julia Sandburg
Kate Bosworth	...	Louise
Alessandro Nivola	...	Chris
Keri Russell	...	Celeste
David Rasche	...	Doug
Elias Koteas	...	Raymond
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Felipe Bonilla	...	Bartender
Alex Burns	...	Guy
Curtiss Cook	...	Actor
Samantha Gallo	...	Girl riding spring animal in park
Mark Gerrard	...	Doctor (as Michael Gerrard)
Maury Ginsberg	...	Marcus Broyard
Joanna Gleason	...	Sarah Graczyk
Seiko Higuma	...	Euro Trash
Jeffrey Joseph	...	Bobby
Patricia Kalember	...	Amanda
Jeremy Kareken	...	Bartender
Stephen Kunken	...	Lee Hall
Ian McWethy	...	Dean
Flaco Navaja	...	Contractor
Elizabeth Newman	...	Colleague
Michael Lee Patterson	...	David Graczyk
Katharine Powell	...	Waitress
Tijuana Ricks	...	Narissa
Rich Rothbell	...	Justice of the Peace
Jack Rovello	...	Young Chris
Kristen Ruhlin	...	The girl mistaken for Louise
Brendan Sexton III	...	Stuart
Bill Sorice	...	Bartender
Andrew Stewart-Jones	...	Louise's Date
Daisy Tahan	...	Maggie
Sarah Megan Thomas	...	Hairdresser
Elisabeth Waterston	...	Alice
Stacey Yen	...	Woman

Also Known As:

Girl in the Park (UK)

MPAA:

Rated R for language.

Runtime:

Canada:109 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Canada:14A | USA:R | Mexico:B | Australia:M | Argentina:13 | Portugal:M/12

Filming Locations:

Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Furst Films

Goofs:

Continuity: When Julia's co-worker brings her a coffee to try out from his new coffee machine, he places it on her desk. The shot changes to him a few seconds later. When back to her, the coffee cup is turned 180 degrees - the handle is on the other side, the computer mouse is moved, and a stack of papers near her planner is moved. She did not move all of these things in those few seconds because she is holding some papers that she was reading when he walked into her office.

The changeling

Another movie which owes a lot to Sigourney Weaver's talent.She excels in portraying mothers with a strong guilty feeling (see "a map of the world" ).She is sadly unsupported by the rest of the cast ,but one must write that their caricatured bourgeois straight characters (particularly the daughter-in-law and Weaver's listless husband) throw the movie off balance.

All that concerns the mother ,desperately trying to recreate a dear one gone for a long time (when she was a little girl) ,is sometimes interesting.It does not renew the subject ,as old as the hills (Hitchcock's "Vertigo"(1958) ;Feyder's "Le Grand Jeu"(1934);Claude Miller's "Mortelle Randonnée" (1983) Losey's " secret Ceremony" (1968):Losey's movie depicting a "mother"/"daughter" relationship is similar to "the girl..." if we reverse the roles).

Best moment:Weaver thanking her family for welcoming "Maggie" .