Ein verurteilter Brandstifter schaut, um einen Bewährungshelfer in einen Plan zu manipulieren, um seine Bewährung zu sichern, indem er seine schöne Frau auf den Weg des Polizisten setzt.Ein verurteilter Brandstifter schaut, um einen Bewährungshelfer in einen Plan zu manipulieren, um seine Bewährung zu sichern, indem er seine schöne Frau auf den Weg des Polizisten setzt.Ein verurteilter Brandstifter schaut, um einen Bewährungshelfer in einen Plan zu manipulieren, um seine Bewährung zu sichern, indem er seine schöne Frau auf den Weg des Polizisten setzt.
- Warden
- (as Peter Lewis)
- Guard #2
- (as Rich Goteri)
- Guard #3
- (as Ron Lyons)
- Pastor
- (as Dave Hendricks)
Handlung
WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesEdward Norton spent time with real prisoners in the Southern Michigan Correctional Facility. He adopted his character's accent and cornrow hairstyle from the prisoners. Norton inserted phrases he heard from the prisoners into the dialogue.
- Zitate
[first lines]
Young Madylyn: Look at me.
Young Jack: Hmm?
Young Madylyn: I'm not standing for this.
Young Jack: Say what?
Young Madylyn: You keep my soul in a dungeon. I'm leaving.
Young Jack: [runs up the stairs, grabs his daughter out of bed, and holds her out the window] If you leave me, I'll throw her.
- VerbindungenReferenced in Maltin on Movies: No Strings Attached (2011)
Yes, Stone is well acted. So what? Do you go to the movies to see good acting class exercises? If so, check this movie out. Norton and De Niro are entertaining, early on at least, and there's sharp dialog they have to work with (how else could they do their jobs? Don't you love people who praise the acting without acknowledging the script?)
But the story – the real reason most of us venture out to see a film – in Stoner is a mess. The movie starts off essentially as a thriller. The plot sets up a con working a con, with his sexy wife, on a prison case officer. But after putting the movie is thriller mode the movie then tries to be a drama about the meaning of life and presence of God. The movie tries to turn its main plot with the wife into a subplot, and then pretend that fun, salacious venture wasn't really what the movie wanted to deal with. No, let's talk about the meaning of life.
Stone, then, is a disappointment. Even as a drama it fails: the story dissipates into ambiguity with regard to the final action. POVs have jumped around all throughout the movie but in not showing us the final resolution between Stone and his wife, the whole fulcrum of the movie is left blank. As for the transformation of Stone – something Norton tries to act by occasionally calming his voice and widening his eyes – it's unbelievable, not fully formed or demonstrated and, like the rest of the movie, a pretentious attempt to take a fun dime-store novel's story and make it profound.
Don't waste your time or money with this one. If you have to see it, wait for video. The movie is shot in TV-like close-ups for the most part and it will play just as well there.
- SaMoFilmGuy
- 16. Okt. 2010
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Box Office
- Budget
- 22.000.000 $ (geschätzt)
- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 1.810.078 $
- Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
- 75.766 $
- 10. Okt. 2010
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 10.300.416 $
- Laufzeit1 Stunde 45 Minuten
- Farbe
- Sound-Mix
- Seitenverhältnis
- 2.35 : 1