Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's day devolves into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world apart.
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
Director:
David Cronenberg
Stars:
Ralph Fiennes,
Miranda Richardson,
Gabriel Byrne
After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
10 years after a global economic collapse, a hardened loner pursues the men who stole his only possession, his car. Along the way, he captures one of the thieves' brother, and the duo form an uneasy bond during the dangerous journey.
Director:
David Michôd
Stars:
Guy Pearce,
Robert Pattinson,
Scoot McNairy
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife, and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.
On the spur of the moment, twenty-eight year old Manhattan self-made multi-billionaire Eric Packer decides he wants to get a haircut from his regular and longtime barber across town, a difficult journey today if only because of the traffic gridlock from three high profile but vastly different events taking place in the borough, including a wandering anarchist protest, they who largely use dead rats as their symbol of protest. Through his trek, Eric, most taking place in his stretch limousine, meets with several business associates - some with as esoteric job titles as Head of Theory - and personal acquaintances, including his several week bride, Elise, a wealthy woman in her own right with who he still has a somewhat distant relationship if only because they don't really know each other. The start of Eric's day ends much differently than the end as his personal fortune largely hinges on external forces in relation to a speculative currency transaction, and as he learns that someone is...Written by
Huggo
David Cronenberg wrote the script in six days. He has admitted that when he converted the book into screenplay format on his computer, he realized it was so perfect that his only work was to separate dialogs from narration. See more »
Quotes
[first lines]
Torval:
Where?
Eric Packer:
I wanna a haircut.
Torval:
The president's in town.
Eric Packer:
We don't care. We need a haircut. We need to go crosstown.
Torval:
You will hit traffic that speaks in quarter inches.
Eric Packer:
Just so I know. Which president are we talking about?
Torval:
United States. Barriers will be set up. Entire streets deleted from the map.
Eric Packer:
Show me my car.
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Crazy Credits
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Robert Pattinson plays a guy who practically lives in his stretch limo. He is a billionaire money manager who can get anything he wants. Except things start going wrong. This has many interesting actors including Juliette Binoche, Sarah Gadon, Juliette Binoche, Samantha Morton, and Jay Baruchel.
David Cronenberg directed this film. He's always been known for an experimental bent on his creations. But instead of his usual visual experimentation, he's trying for something different. It's hard to describe this movie. The best that I can come up with is a run-on sentence. The acting, the dialog are all very mannered. There is very little emotional display from most of the lead actors especially Robert Pattinson, and Sarah Gadon. Before you say something mean-spirited, it's deliberate. The story, the characters just keeps coming and coming without much emotional drama. It get going about an hour in as chaos start to descend on his world. Just because I see Cronenberg is experimenting, it doesn't mean that I think it's a good movie. It's a hard movie to watch. There's very little to grab on to. The experiment is not successful.
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Robert Pattinson plays a guy who practically lives in his stretch limo. He is a billionaire money manager who can get anything he wants. Except things start going wrong. This has many interesting actors including Juliette Binoche, Sarah Gadon, Juliette Binoche, Samantha Morton, and Jay Baruchel.
David Cronenberg directed this film. He's always been known for an experimental bent on his creations. But instead of his usual visual experimentation, he's trying for something different. It's hard to describe this movie. The best that I can come up with is a run-on sentence. The acting, the dialog are all very mannered. There is very little emotional display from most of the lead actors especially Robert Pattinson, and Sarah Gadon. Before you say something mean-spirited, it's deliberate. The story, the characters just keeps coming and coming without much emotional drama. It get going about an hour in as chaos start to descend on his world. Just because I see Cronenberg is experimenting, it doesn't mean that I think it's a good movie. It's a hard movie to watch. There's very little to grab on to. The experiment is not successful.