The Box - Du bist das Experiment

Originaltitel: The Box

2009
16
1 Std. 55 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

5,6/10

96.284

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Cameron Diaz, Frank Langella, and James Marsden in The Box - Du bist das Experiment (2009)

A young couple is gifted with a mysterious box that promises them a handsome windfall with deadly consequences.

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Drama Mystery Thriller

Eine kleine Holzkiste steht vor der Haustür eines Ehepaares, das weiß, dass die Öffnung ihnen eine Million Dollar einbringen und jemanden töten wird, den sie nicht kennen.Eine kleine Holzkiste steht vor der Haustür eines Ehepaares, das weiß, dass die Öffnung ihnen eine Million Dollar einbringen und jemanden töten wird, den sie nicht kennen.Eine kleine Holzkiste steht vor der Haustür eines Ehepaares, das weiß, dass die Öffnung ihnen eine Million Dollar einbringen und jemanden töten wird, den sie nicht kennen.

Regie
- Richard Kelly
Drehbuch
- Richard Kelly
- Richard Matheson
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

5,6/10

96.284

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Regie
- Richard Kelly
Drehbuch
- Richard Kelly
- Richard Matheson
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 1 Gewinn & 6 Nominierungen insgesamt

Wissenswertes
The main characters, Norma Lewis and Arthur Lewis, were based on director Richard Kelly's parents. His mother also suffered a crippled foot after an X-Ray mishap; his father worked for NASA and co-designed the camera used on the Viking Mars Landers (as in the movie).

Patzer
911 emergency services weren't available in Richmond, VA, in 1976.

Zitate
Martin Teague: Sir? If you don't mind my asking... why a box?
Arlington Steward: Your home is a box. Your car is a box on wheels. You drive to work in it. You drive home in it. You sit in your home, staring into a box. It erodes your soul, while the box that is your body inevitably withers... then dies. Whereupon it is placed in the ultimate box, to slowly decompose.
Martin Teague: It's quite depressing, if you think of it that way.
Arlington Steward: Don't think of it that way... think of it as a temporary state of being.

Verbindungen
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The Men Who Stare at Goats/The Fourth Kind/The Box/A Christmas Carol (2009)

Soundtracks
Light in Your Eyes
Written by Stephan Sechi (as Stephan M. Sechi)
Performed by Stephan Sechi
Courtesy of Crucial Music Corporation

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Ausgewählte Rezension

6/10

creepy, strange and overall sinister, yet not very coherent or focused

Richard Kelly's latest supernatural thriller "The Box" is creepy, strange and overall sinister, yet not very coherent or focused. One's opinion on the movie depends on whether one accepts its peculiar concept or not. I must say that I was initially enthralled by the movie's strange old-fashioned tone resembling sci-fi movies from the 1970s Kelly pays homage to. The movie handles its mystery rather well with Frank Langella's uniquely scary performance being the obvious highlight. Given that, the movie falters at the end when its otherwise intriguing concept gets bogged down by the series of ridiculous events that feel as if they were taken from a different movie. While The Box tends to approach the wrong territory and is rather unfocused, one can't help but acknowledge Kelly's ability to attract the viewer's attention. His obsessions may not be shared by very many people, but he manifests them in a richly textured manner. That's just enough to enjoy this movie despite its shortcomings. 6.5/10 (B-)