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Director:
Atom Egoyan
Writers (WGA):
Erin Cressida Wilson (screenplay)
Anne Fontaine (motion picture "Nathalie")
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Release Date:
2009 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Thriller more
Tagline:
She invited Chloe into her life, her home and her marriage. Big mistake
Plot:
A doctor hires an escort to seduce her husband, whom she suspects of cheating, though unforeseen events put the family in danger. full summary | add synopsis
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Interview – Stargate Universe's David Blue
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Celebrity Biography: Nina Dobrev
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Laughable Hitchcock meets Fatal Attraction mongrel more (3 total)

Cast

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Liam Neeson ... David

Nina Dobrev ... Anna

Amanda Seyfried ... Chloe

Julianne Moore ... Catherine

Max Thieriot ... Michael

Meghan Heffern ... Miranda

Laura DeCarteret ... Alicia

Mishu Vellani ... Julie
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Runtime:
99 min
Country:
USA | Canada | France
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Filming Locations:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada more
Company:
Montecito Picture Company, The more

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Trivia:
In the middle of March 2009, Liam Neeson interrupted filming his scenes in order to visit his wife Natasha Richardson in hospital after she had a skiing accident. The brain injury she received from this accident lead to her death a few days later. Neeson completed his performance during his bereavement. more
Movie Connections:
Remake of Nathalie... (2003) more

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2 out of 15 people found the following comment useful.
Laughable Hitchcock meets Fatal Attraction mongrel, 23 October 2009
2/10
Author: Framescourer from London, UK

Dreadful. As a romantic thriller in which an impressionable, scheming nymphette gets dragged into a couple's mid-life wobble, there's a fair bit of sex - imagined, evoked, solipsistic. Well, this is treated fetishistically by Egoyan, pornographically, filling in the blank spaces after emotional sequences. Besides these scenes there is nothing to invest the sex with any danger or meaning. I don't buy the idea of Catherine getting entangled with Chloe through some sort of strange, sexual-metaphysical transposition. As I'm suggesting, it just seems like an excuse for two attractive women to get it on.

The script is a mess of simplistic statements and incoherence. I imagine that it didn't help having Anna Fontaine (who directed the 2003 film, Nathalie, on which this is based) co-writing the script: having already made a coherent version, reworking it could be more like unravelling it. Julianne Moore, who is the chief protagonist, is really quite good, although clearly acting under Egoyan's direction. Neeson as the husband and Max Thieriot (Michael) are plain and occasionally over-melodramatic.

Unforgivably though, Seyfried is hung out to dry by the script and the director. They've no idea what her character is. There's not even an allusion to a history, and her 'call girl' background, which opens the film, is effectively abandoned halfway through. I'm still no better informed as to her real acting capability.

I liked Mychael Danna's music but it's disingenuously appropriated as a sub-Hermann lacquer on a film that, despite Egoyan's aspirations, isn't a patch on Hitchcock. Music and its indifferent use throughout the film is actually a striking bell-weather of the film's failings. I knew it was going to be dreadful when one of the opening scenes shows Neeson's music lecturer pointing at students to ask them questions about opera. Point and show is about the extent of the film's dialectic. 2/10

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