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Title: Os Indesejados (2009)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Emily Browning | ... | Anna | |
| Arielle Kebbel | ... | Alex | |
| David Strathairn | ... | Steven | |
| Elizabeth Banks | ... | Rachel | |
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Maya Massar | ... | Mom |
| Kevin McNulty | ... | Sheriff Emery | |
| Jesse Moss | ... | Matt | |
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Dean Paul Gibson | ... | Dr. Silberling |
| Don S. Davis | ... | Mr. Henson | |
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Lex Burnham | ... | Iris |
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Matthew Bristol | ... | David |
| Daniel Bristol | ... | Samuel (as Danny Bristol) | |
| Heather Doerksen | ... | Mildred | |
| Alf Humphreys | ... | Priest (as Alfred E. Humphreys) | |
| Ryan Cowie | ... | Orderly | |
After the death of her ill mother in a fire, the young teenager Anna tries to commit suicide and is sent to a mental institution for treatment. Ten months later, Anna still cannot remember what had happened on the night her mother died. Her psychiatric Dr. Silberling, however, discharges her telling that she has resolved her issues. Her father and successful writer, Steven, brings her back home in an isolated mansion nearby the coast. Anna finds that her mother's former nurse, Rachel Summers, is her stepmother now. Anna meets her beloved sister, Alex, swimming in the sea. She discovers that Steven has not delivered the letters and CDs that Alex had sent to her. As time moves on, Anna is haunted by ghosts and she believes that Rachel killed her mother. Alex and Anna decide to look for evidence to prove that Rachel is the murderer and Anna discovers the truth about the fire in the boat house. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
While many people are just so put off by this film for many reasons, I was very surprised by how it actually turned out.
Although the original, "A Tale of Two Sisters", was an epic movie that delivered certain moods and feelings that this movie (and most other films to date) couldn't quite capture, this film was still just great.
One thing to understand was that this movie was completely westernized. Remakes such as "The Grudge" take place in Japan, but the main characters are replaced with an American or European cast, and sometimes the story just doesn't quite fit the way it should with that type of a cast. In this film, the "A Tale of Two Sisters" story is completely translated into an American setting, in the north in a small town. The characters are tweaked a little to accommodate the new setting, and so are some of the scenes and plot lines. This is where many fans of the original get upset and get their panties in a bunch.
If this film was truly remade true to the original, it would just be the original film itself being remade 5 years later with the same cast and same script. This film is honestly one of the best Asian-horror remakes that has been made in the past 3 or 4 years if not ever. The cast gives solid performances and there were little or no plot holes. There were actually less plot holes in this film than the original. Of course I liked the original more, but I'm just saying this film executed certain things that the first film didn't, just like the first film executed certain things this film didn't. They are meant to be similar but different, and that is what makes both of them worth seeing.
8.5/10