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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Mystery /
Romance /
Thriller
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Director:
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Jane Campion
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Actors:
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Meg Ryan,
Mark Ruffalo,
Sharrieff Pugh,
Heather Litteer,
Yaani King,
Micheal Nuccio,
Allison Nega,
Dominick Aries,
Susan Gardner,
Daniel T. Booth,
Frank Harts,
Sebastian Sozzi,
Zach Wegner,
Jennifer Jason Leigh,
Nick Damici
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Duration:
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119 min.
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Rating:
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(5.2/10)128
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Plot Summary:
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The acclaimed Restored Zealand director Jane Campion (THE PIANO) here turns her curious artistic discrimination toward the urban erotic thriller category. Based on the tale by Susanna Moore, IN THE Automatic tells the allegation of Frannie (Meg Ryan) an English teacher living in Manhattan's East Village who finds herself adulterated up in a homicide investigation after a severed head turns up in her garden. Jennifer Jason Leigh is her sexually unhinged half-sister and Mark Ruffalo plays a homicide detective on the if it happens who falls into bed with Frannie after she's attacked on the Further East Side. Suspects group her stalker ex-lover (Kevin Bacon) and a troubled apprentice (Sharrieff Pugh) who's obsessed with serial killer John Wayne Gacy. As the torso count rises putting, Frannie realises that the prime suspect just may be the very cop in her bed.
... If this all sounds a by-the-numbers going to bed misdeed thriller don't worry; Campion twists the genre towards her own ends, adding multi-layered focus, deeply saturated colours, a dream-like mood and copious amounts of feminist allegorical symbolism. Meg Ryan fans should be shocked by her act here (replete with a handful undressed scenes), which is a major departure from her usual crafty characterisations. Nicole Kidman, who starred in Campion's Likeness OF A LADY served as producer. Fans of that film, and Campion's responsibility in general, should enjoy the sullen psychosexual theatrics on advertise in this grim urban fairy tale.
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In the Cut
Ridley Scott's seminal horror sci-fi film is digitally remastered and re-edited to freak audiences out again
Widely regarded as a masterpiece of contemporary science fiction, Ridley Scott's Alien overcomes its haunted-house-in-space origins to deliver a virtuoso convergence of acting, production design and jump-through-the-ceiling terror. Despite being imitated, spoofed and shamelessly plagiarized since its release in 1979, Alien has retained its power to shock thanks to HR Giger's now infamous monster, the script's audacious Freudian riffs on sex, motherhood and birth and the central performance of Sigourney Weaver.
Reissued 24 years after the original release, this remastered edition of Alien digitally spruces up the original negative and adds a br...
More of an off-cut
Meg Ryan gets her kit off! Jane Campion directs a thriller! In the Cut is a lush romantic masterpiece! Which of these is actually true?
The answer is the first one. But while that may attract some viewers, let's just say that what is seen is no more or less than any other actress's nude scene in recent years, and that the sex scenes are about as erotic as watching the Tweenies. The thriller elements are sketchily observed and referred to, and Jane Campion seems more interested in showing us an apparently detached woman's trial by erotic fire.
Only it never convinces. It's too muddled. Scenes come and go without advancing the storyline, and the plot is standard thriller nonsense (a three year old could guess the killer's identity). Only Dion Beebe&#...
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