De Niro plays hide-and-seek
Here comes a star-studded hair-raiser Hide & Seek. Clumsy title?
Film: Hide & Seek
Starring: Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen, Elisabeth Shue
Time: 102 minutes
Showing at: Cineplex, Garden City from today
Preview by: Sebidde Kiryowa
Here comes a star-studded hair-raiser Hide & Seek. Clumsy title? Yes, if you asked me, especially for a film that seeks to be taken seriously. In what some critics insist on calling “one of his better roles in recent memory,†Robert DeNiro stars as David Callaway, an esteemed psychologist who, with his beautiful wife (Amy Irving) and adorable daughter Emily (Dakota Fanning), lives a very comfortable life in an attractive New York apartment.
One day, Collaway finds his wife in the tub, soaking in a bath of her own blood. Hoping to take his daughter away from it all, he moves her to a spacious, remote house in the dark, foreboding woods of upstate New York.
This he does against the wishes of his friend and child psychiatrist Katherine (Famke Janssen). As soon as they get settled in, Emily confides in her father that she has made a new friend named Charlie, whom Collaway automatically perceives to be imaginary.
Collaway also finds a friend, a beautiful local woman called Elizabeth (Elisabeth Shue). When he invites her to dinner, the story takes a new twist. The remainder of the film deals with a string of strange occurrences. For instance, is Charlie really invisible? Is he even imaginary?
Most critics contended that the story was less convincing but the stirring performances from the actors redeem the movie. Most noble is the performance put up by the almost unsettlingly talented Dakota Fanning.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen, Elisabeth Shue
Time: 102 minutes
Showing at: Cineplex, Garden City from today
Preview by: Sebidde Kiryowa
Here comes a star-studded hair-raiser Hide & Seek. Clumsy title? Yes, if you asked me, especially for a film that seeks to be taken seriously. In what some critics insist on calling “one of his better roles in recent memory,†Robert DeNiro stars as David Callaway, an esteemed psychologist who, with his beautiful wife (Amy Irving) and adorable daughter Emily (Dakota Fanning), lives a very comfortable life in an attractive New York apartment.
One day, Collaway finds his wife in the tub, soaking in a bath of her own blood. Hoping to take his daughter away from it all, he moves her to a spacious, remote house in the dark, foreboding woods of upstate New York.
This he does against the wishes of his friend and child psychiatrist Katherine (Famke Janssen). As soon as they get settled in, Emily confides in her father that she has made a new friend named Charlie, whom Collaway automatically perceives to be imaginary.
Collaway also finds a friend, a beautiful local woman called Elizabeth (Elisabeth Shue). When he invites her to dinner, the story takes a new twist. The remainder of the film deals with a string of strange occurrences. For instance, is Charlie really invisible? Is he even imaginary?
Most critics contended that the story was less convincing but the stirring performances from the actors redeem the movie. Most noble is the performance put up by the almost unsettlingly talented Dakota Fanning.