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2004
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Wayne and Eileen Hayes (ROBERT REDFORD, HELEN MIRREN) appear to be living the American dream. All illusions are shattered when Wayne is kidnapped in broad daylight from the Hayes' peaceful Pittsburgh estate. Under the microscope of a probing FBI investigation and her own painstaking introspection, Wayne's wife Eileen also becomes a victim. The interrogation introduces a life underneath outward appearances; the suspicions, the secrets, the inadequacies, and what can happen along the way to achieving the American dream. Suddenly the man who at one point in his life prided himself on being a cunning negotiator finds his fate resting in the hands of a kidnapper (WILLEM DAFOE) who has nothing to lose and everything to gain. Will he succeed in the most important negotiation ever... for his life?
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© 2004 Mediastream Dritte Film GmbH & Co. Beteiligungs KG and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
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Lew Irwin
The critics are also widely divided over The Clearing, starring Robert Redford and Helen Mirren. Up against Spider-Man and a raft of teen-oriented movie fare, the film is described as solid summer counterprogramming by Jack Mathews in the New York Daily News. Stephen Hunter in the Washington praises the performances of the actors, noting that for Redford, the movie could be called an anti-vanity film, in which he allows himself to be photographed in the least flattering of light, so that the ravages time has worked upon his face are fully exposed. This spirit of honesty extends to the character himself, which, far from being the heroic Redford of yore, is shown to have been flawed, weak, inadequate and far from heroic. But Steven Rea in the Philadelphia Inquirer describes it as a suspense movie on Prozac. As still and flat as a lake on a windless day. Mike Clark in USA Today takes an in-between position, writing: This is one of those moderately engrossing movies that seems to collapse all at once during the wrap-up, yet it's well-acted all around, especially by its star, who once again reminds us why audiences have liked him for 40 years.
Reviewed by: boradicus on 10/11/2007 3:02:42 AM
Good movie.THis film is about characterization.It is a little surprising in that regard.I enjoyed it overall although it was rather dark.I have to admit that Willem Dafoe played a very good role.
Lew Irwin
The critics are also widely divided over The Clearing, starring Robert Redford and Helen Mirren. Up against Spider-Man and a raft of teen-oriented movie fare, the film is described as solid summer counterprogramming by Jack Mathews in the New York Daily News. Stephen Hunter in the Washington praises the performances of the actors, noting that for Redford, the movie could be called an anti-vanity film, in which he allows himself to be photographed in the least flattering of light, so that the ravages time has worked upon his face are fully exposed. This spirit of honesty extends to the character himself, which, far from being the heroic Redford of yore, is shown to have been flawed, weak, inadequate and far from heroic. But Steven Rea in the Philadelphia Inquirer describes it as a suspense movie on Prozac. As still and flat as a lake on a windless day. Mike Clark in USA Today takes an in-between position, writing: This is one of those moderately engrossing movies that seems to collapse all at once during the wrap-up, yet it's well-acted all around, especially by its star, who once again reminds us why audiences have liked him for 40 years.
Reviewed by: boradicus on 10/11/2007 3:02:42 AM
Good movie.THis film is about characterization.It is a little surprising in that regard.I enjoyed it overall although it was rather dark.I have to admit that Willem Dafoe played a very good role.
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Reviewed by: boradicus on 10/11/2007 3:02:42 AM
Good movie.THis film is about characterization.It is a little surprising in that regard.I enjoyed it overall although it was rather dark.I have to admit that Willem Dafoe played a very good role.
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