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| Directed by | John Polson |
| Produced by | Barry Josephson |
| Written by | Ari Schlossberg |
| Starring | Robert De Niro Dakota Fanning Famke Janssen Elizabeth Shue Amy Irving Dylan Baker |
| Cinematography | Dariusz Wolski |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | January 28, 2005 |
| Running time | 101 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $US25,000,000 |
Hide and Seek is a 2005 horror film / psychological thriller film starring Robert De Niro and Dakota Fanning. It was directed by John Polson. The film opened in the United States in January 2005 and was top of the box office. It did not reach the same level of critical success; it garnered mainly negative reviews, receiving only a 13% on Rotten Tomatoes.[1] The performances of the actors were highly praised however.
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Following his discovery of the body of his wife in a bathtub after her suicide, Dr. David Callaway (Robert De Niro), a psychologist working in New York City, decides to move with his daughter Emily (Dakota Fanning) to upstate New York. There, Emily befriends a mysterious imaginary friend who wishes to be named "Charlie". Her friendship with Charlie begins to disturb David when he discovers their cat dead in the bathtub. Charlie is apparently responsible for this horrific act, according to Emily. David also has recurring nightmares at a specific time of the night where (2:06) , in the dream, he keeps re-living the New Year's Eve that he discovers his wife cheating on him. When a family friend, Katherine (Famke Janssen) comes to visit David and Emily, Emily reveals that she and Charlie are getting closer and have a mutual desire to upset her father. Soon they meet a man and a woman that are their neighbors. They had a daughter that died from cancer, and in a photo, it is revealed that the daughter looks exactly like Emily. The husband soon starts coming to visit Emily and talks to her very often.
When David meets local woman Elizabeth (Elisabeth Shue) to whom he has become attracted, Charlie hides in a closet and then bursts out, pushing Elizabeth out a second-story window, causing her death. After the police discover her car crashed near David's house, David asks Emily what happened. Emily claims Charlie had caused her death and then tells David where her body is. A terrified David discovers Elizabeth's body in a bathtub full of blood. David asks Emily where Charlie is, and Emily tells him that Charlie "just left the house".
David, armed with a knife, goes outside, where he meets his concerned neighbor that has become friends with Emily. The neighbor claims he heard noises and saw David walk out of the woods with a shovel moments before. David assumes that his neighbor is Charlie and begins to act aggressively. Thinking that David has killed his own daughter and buried her in the woods, the neighbor asks to see Emily, but David refuses and cuts the neighbor with his knife. The neighbor then calls the police. As he is in his house, a door opens. David, thinking it was their neighbor, charges into the room beyond. Nobody is there, just boxes and his psychologist equipment.
After this, David discovers that he has split personality. David realizes that Charlie is not imaginary at all, but that in fact Charlie is David himself. David also discovers that under his Charlie personality, he killed his wife and then made it appear to be a suicide, after discovering his wife's affair. David's entire personality then becomes fully consumed by the increasingly violent Charlie, leading him to murder the local sheriff, who came to investigate the previous altercation. Emily calls Katherine for help and tells her that her dad can't help her any longer.
Katherine arrives and is pushed in the basement by Charlie. David (Charlie), determined to play a hideous game of hide and seek, starts counting, Emily dashes and hides. Charlie starts looking and finally finds her in the bathroom where she is hiding behind the door. Emily runs to her room and locks the door. She has nowhere to go except for the window Elizabeth was thrown from, but it is too high. She attempts to open a window that only Charlie could open, and is successful. She then escapes and runs to the cave where she met Charlie. Katherine escapes from the basement and shoots David right before he catches her.
The movie ends with Emily preparing for school while living a new life with Katherine. Emily draws a picture of herself and Katherine, suggesting that everything is fine. But when the camera cuts back to Emily's drawing, Emily has two heads suggesting that she herself also suffers from split personality.
This film has a total of five different endings. The US theatrical release had the following ending:
Another four were included on the DVD released in the USA:
According to the commentary, the directors, screenwriters, and producers chose the ending they did for the default DVD and domestic release because it gave the audience a relief at the end of the film. They felt the hospital room endings were too dark and suggested that Emily is being punished for things she did not do. After the Emily character is basically thrown into terror for the last 45 minutes of the film, they felt it was time to give her an emotional break, and the happy ending was chosen, though it is not necessarily 'happy' as she still draws a double head, meaning that she suffers from split personality.
| Hide and Seek | |
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| Directed by | John Polson |
| Produced by | Barry Josephson |
| Written by | Ari Schlossberg |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Dariusz Wolski |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) |
January 27, 2005 (Argentina) January 28, 2005 |
| Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $25 million |
| Gross revenue | $122,650,962 |
Hide and Seek is a 2005 psychological thriller film starring Robert De Niro and Dakota Fanning. It was directed by John Polson. The film opened in the United States in January 2005 and was top of the box office. It did not reach the same level of critical success; it garnered mainly negative reviews, receiving only a 13% on Rotten Tomatoes.[1] The performances of the actors were highly praised however.
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Following his discovery of the body of his wife in a bathtub after her suicide, Dr. David Callaway (Robert De Niro), a psychologist working in New York City, decides to move with his daughter Emily (Dakota Fanning) to upstate New York. There, Emily bestfriends a mysterious imaginary friend who wishes to be named "Charlie". Her friendship with Charlie begins to disturb David when he discovers their cat dead in the bathtub. Charlie is apparently responsible for this horrific act, according to Emily. David also has recurring nightmares at a specific time of the night where (2:06) , in the dream, he keeps re-living the New Year's Eve that he discovers his wife cheating on him. When a family friend, Katherine (Famke Janssen) comes to visit David and Emily, Emily reveals that she and Charlie are getting closer and have a mutual desire to upset her father. Soon they meet a man and a woman that are their neighbors. They had a daughter that died from cancer, and in a photo, it is revealed that the daughter looks exactly like Emily. The husband soon starts coming to visit Emily and talks to her very often.
When David meets local woman Elizabeth (Elisabeth Shue) to whom he has become attracted, Charlie hides in a closet and then bursts out, pushing Elizabeth out a second-story window, causing her death. After the police discover her car crashed near David's house, David asks Emily what happened. Emily claims Charlie had caused her death and then tells David where her body is. A terrified David discovers Elizabeth's body in a bathtub full of blood. David asks Emily where Charlie is, and Emily tells him that Charlie "just left the house".
David, armed with a knife, goes outside, where he meets his concerned neighbor that has become friends with Emily. The neighbor claims he heard noises and saw David walk out of the woods with a shovel moments before. David assumes that his neighbor is Charlie and begins to act aggressively. Thinking that David has killed his own daughter and buried her in the woods, the neighbor asks to see Emily, but David refuses and cuts the neighbor with his knife. The neighbor then calls the police. As he is in his house, a door opens. David, thinking it was their neighbor, charges into the room beyond. Nobody is there, just boxes and his psychologist equipment.
After this, David discovers that he has split personality. David realizes that Charlie is not imaginary at all, but that in fact Charlie is David himself. David also discovers that under his Charlie personality, he killed his wife and then made it appear to be a suicide, after discovering his wife's affair. David's entire personality then becomes fully consumed by the increasingly violent Charlie, leading him to murder the local sheriff, who came to investigate the previous altercation. Emily calls Katherine for help and tells her that her dad can't help her any longer.
Katherine arrives and is pushed in the basement by Charlie. David (Charlie), determined to play a hideous game of hide and seek, starts counting, Emily dashes and hides. Charlie starts looking and goes into the bathroom were Emily is hiding, when Charlie goes in she makes a run for it to her room and locks the door. Finding an only exit she decides to go out from the window and running into the cave where she had met Charlie. Meanwhile Katherine takes the gun from the sheriff and manages to get out of the closet to help Emily. In the cave Charlie is looking for Emily, Katherine bursted in. Charlie tricks Katherine into acting like he has no clue of what's happening to him and hits her. When he is about to kill her Emily comes out and tells him to let her go then he goes to Emily switching his flash light on and off, when he is finally right in front of her Katherine comes between them and shoots Charlie.
The movie ends with Emily preparing for school while living a new life with Katherine. Emily draws a picture of herself and Katherine, suggesting that everything is fine. But when the camera cuts back to Emily's drawing, Emily has two heads suggesting that she herself also suffers from split personality.
This film has a total of five different endings. The US theatrical release had the following ending:
Another four were included on the DVD released in the USA:
According to the commentary, the directors, screenwriters, and producers chose the ending they did for the default DVD and domestic release because it gave the audience a relief at the end of the film. They felt the hospital room endings were too dark and suggested that Emily is being punished for things she did not do. After the Emily character is basically thrown into terror for the last 45 minutes of the film, they felt it was time to give her an emotional break, and the happy ending was chosen, though it is not necessarily 'happy' as she still draws a double head, meaning that she suffers from split personality.
The movie has a spin-off tagline, "Come Out Come Out, Whatever You Are", a spin-off from the "Come Out Come Out, Wherever You Are" which used in the film.
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