Hide And Seek (2005)

unskinnyboy · **Posted:** Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:27 pm **Post subject:** Hide And Seek (2005)

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Tagline: Come out come out whatever you are

Plot Outline: As a widower tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide, his daughter finds solace -- at first -- in her imaginary friend.

Plot Synopsis: Hide and Seek revolves around a widower (Robert DeNiro) and his daughter (Dakota Fanning). They move to upstate and Emily (Fanning) soon creates an imaginary friend named Charlie...but this act takes an unexpected and terrifying turn, where her father and doctor (Famke Janssen) start to worry about Emily's gruesome habits.

Review: Dakota Fanning--the elfin star of Uptown Girls, The Cat in the Hat, and Man on Fire--trades in her blond locks for a semi-gothic brunette do in Hide and Seek. Fanning plays Emily, a young girl whose mother commits suicide. To help Emily through the trauma, her father David (Robert DeNiro), a psychologist, takes her to an isolated house in upstate New York. But instead of healing, Emily gets dark circles under her eyes, mutilates her favorite doll, and develops an imaginary friend named Charlie. In no time at all, things get spooky and David suspects this imaginary friend isn't so friendly. Hide and Seek owes a lot to The Shining, but whether the creepiness is borrowed or not, there's a decent dose of it (though the twist at the end is unlikely to surprise many viewers). DeNiro does his job with professional gloss, but Fanning carries the movie; she's got the kind of charisma that goes beyond acting ability--that ineffable glow that makes an audience want to watch her. Hide and Seek also features Famke Janssen (X-Men), Elisabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas), and the ever-dependable Dylan Baker (Happiness).

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IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382077/
Rating: 5.5/10 (10,663 votes)
US Theatrical Release Date: January 28, 2005
DVD Release Date: July 5, 2005
Awards & Nominations: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382077/awards

Country: USA
Language: English

Specs:
Video: XviD (CVS build 2005.09.16) @ ~1516 kbps
Audio 1: AC3 6Ch 448 kbps
Audio 2: MP3 1Ch 076 kbps
[Commentary by Director John Polson, Screenwriter Ari Schlossberg and Editor Jeffrey Ford]
Resolution: 720 x 304
Aspect Ratio: 2.368 (45:19)
Framerate: 23.976 fps
Qf: 0.289
Runtime: 01:42:19.128

Subtitles: English, Espa?ol

Interleave: 96 ms (2.3 v.frames), preload=96
Audio frames: Split across interleaves

I-VOPs: 1558 (1.06%)
P-VOPs: 144825 (98.39%)
B-VOPs: 0 (0.00%)
S-VOPs: 0 (0.00%)
N-VOPs: 809 (0.55%)

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