One and Two (2015)

Two siblings discover a supernatural escape from a troubled home, but find their bond tested when reality threatens to tear their family apart.

Director:

Andrew Droz Palermo

Writers:

Andrew Droz Palermo (co-writer), Neima Shahdadi (co-writer)

Stars:

Kiernan Shipka, Timothée Chalamet, Elizabeth Reaser

1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Kiernan Shipka	...	Eva
Timothée Chalamet	...	Zac
Elizabeth Reaser	...	Elizabeth
Grant Bowler	...	Daniel
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Wendy Ahlstrom	...	Country Woman
Kyle Andrew Bell	...	Jeff (as Kyle Bell)
Zachary Dylan Brown	...	Nurse
Jay Cardell	...	Officer
Chantey Colet	...	Terry
Monica Crumpler	...	Nurse 3
Rayven Symone Ferrell	...	Danny
Dale Girard	...	John / Nurse #2
Saia Grayson	...	Danny's Opponent
Albert Guzman	...	Grieving family member
Julie Haught	...	River Woman

Storyline

Zac and Eva live with their parents in isolated-mysterious farmhouse. The family lives' in the 1800s manner and doing the old-fashioned chores. When their mom becomes seriously ill, the sibling begins to discover family dark secrets and supernatural abilities to teleport themselves, which threaten a family to splintered. One and Two is the story about the bond and love between the siblings.

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Plot Keywords:

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Genres:

Drama | Fantasy | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Trivia

The French electronic band "M83" are featured in the outtro of this film.

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Soundtracks

Outro
written by Anthony Gonzalez & Justin Meldal-Johnsen
performed by M83

User Reviews

Kids Go Poof - Movie Goes Nowhere

Weird little film. Starts off promising and remains promising throughout, it just never does anything with that promise. Smart enough to come up with believable constraints on children who can teleport themselves (and yet are confined; i.e. there has to be line of sight to where they are going to poof to next, so put a bag over their head and their powers are gone), and equally clever enough to figure out ways around that.

But it moves at a pace that is, at first, leisurely, and later as the "action" ramps up (or more accurately as there are changes in the situation) the film slips even further into sleepwalking. It sets up interesting developments but then deliberately doesn't really do anything with them. The filmmakers seem averse to exploring any of the multiple concepts that are sprinkled throughout. Perhaps it's as simple as they were not as clever and smart as their own premise.

It's frustrating that so much could have been addressed but the filmmakers act just like the film's characters; dour and non-communicative to an extreme. Simple visual effects are believably handled; performances are strong; there is even a whole scene here or there that is everything you might want it to be, but then the film meanders away as if it has no clear idea where it wants to go or why it wants to get there. Or why we should stick around for the ride.

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

14 August 2015 (USA)

Also Known As:

One and Two

Filming Locations:

North Carolina, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bow and Arrow Entertainment, Melody Maker Productions & MMP Audio, Son of a gun Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1