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Genres:
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Action /
Drama /
Horror /
Sci-Fi /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Breck Eisner
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Actors:
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Joe Anderson,
Preston Bailey,
Brett Rickaby,
Christie Lynn Smith,
Joe Reegan,
John Aylward,
Radha Mitchell,
Timothy Olyphant,
Danielle Panabaker,
Glenn Morshower
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Duration:
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101 min.
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Rating:
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(7.4/10)140
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Plot Summary:
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In a terrifying narration of the American Dream gone inappropriate, four friends manage themselves trapped in their hometown. A reinvention of the George A. Romero classic, "The Crazies" is directed not later than Breck Eisner (Sahara) and is based on a screenplay by Ray Wright (Pulsing, Case 39) and Scott Kaser (The Amityville Uneasiness, The Texas Chainsaw ).
David Dutton (Timothy Olyphant - "Hitman", "Deadwood") is sheriff in a picture-realize American burgh with happy, law-unending citizens. But joke night, one of them comes to a high school baseball game with a loaded shotgun, ... subject to to while away. Another man burns down his house after locking his wife and young son in a closet interior. Something is infecting the citizens of Ogden Marsh... with mental derangement. Laboured to bind together, an homespun unceasingly becomes a struggle for survival as they try out to get at large of village quick.
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The Crazies
can Bowles Remakes are a contentious issue, especially in a financial climate where every other greenlit Hollywood project is based on a known property, with executives comforting themselves that an established film licence will be a safer bet. Horror has seemed to suffer more than most genres, with remakes divided into two camps: either suffocated at the hands of the dreaded PG-13 rating (Prom Night, The Stepfather), or with all the subtle skill of the original replaced with torture and gore, delivered with the brutality of a sledge hammer (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween). I still find myself watching most of them though, as I'm well aware that without remakes there would be no John Carpenter's The Thing, but the good ones are very few and far ...
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