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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391100935
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 19, 2006
Running Time: 102 minutes
Sales Rank: 25872
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 01, 2006
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Description:
Out patrolling a California highway, police officer Edward Malus (Nicolas Cage) stops a station wagon to return a little girl's lost doll. Moments later, a runaway truck slams into the station wagon, igniting it into a fiery wreck with the mother and child trapped inside. Edward fails to save them before the car explodes...and then spends months of his life choking down pills to get the image of their faces out of his head. But Edward is about to get a second chance. A desperate letter from his former girlfriend, Willow (Kate Beahan), arrives at his home with no postmark. Willow came into his life and left just as unexpectedly years before. But now, her daughter Rowan has gone missing, and Edward is theonly person she trusts to help locate her. She asks him to come to her home on a private island - Summersisle - a place with its own traditions where people observe a forgotten way of life. Edward seizes the opportunity to make his life right again, and soon finds himself on a seaplane bound for the islands of the Pacific Northwest. But nothing is what it seems on isolated Summersisle, where a culture, dominated by its matriarch Sister Summersisle (Ellen Burstyn), is bound together by arcane traditions and a pagan festival called "the Day of Death and Rebirth." The secretive people of Summersisle only ridicule his investigation, insisting that a child named Rowan never existed there... or if she ever did was no longer alive. But what Edward doesn't know is that Willow's plea for help has invited more into his life than a chance for redemption. In unraveling Summersisle's closely held secrets, Edward is drawn into a web of ancient traditions and murderous deceit, and each step he takes closer to the lost child brings him one step closer to the unspeakable. And one step closer to the Wicker Man.
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Nicolas Cage stars in The Wicker Man as a traumatized police officer investigating a lost girl on a mysterious, mist-shrouded island of imperious women and dimwitted men. Summoned by his ex-fiancee (Kate Beahan, Flightplan, who seems to have borrowed her lips from Angelina Jolie), Edward Malus (Cage, Adaptation.) blusters his way into a closed religious community by flashing his out-of-state badge around and insulting everyone he meets. To describe The Wicker Man any further would deprive viewers of enjoying the staggering ineptness of this absurd remake of the fairly creepy 1973 original. Despite a talented cast (including Ellen Burstyn, Requiem for a Dream, Molly Parker, Deadwood, and Leelee Sobieski, Joy Ride), the performances are uniformly awful, with Cage leading the pack; his overwrought cries of "How'd it get burned?!?" will provoke barks of laughter. Arbitrary wierdness abounds--ranging from animal masks to a body-stocking of bees--in a flailing effort to distract the audience from the narrative running madly off the rails. Maybe writer/director Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men, The Shape of Things) aspired to create a fever dream of male fears about women, but the result is a deformed hybrid of Invasion of the Bee Girls and The Village. A future camp classic. --Bret Fetzer
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Rating:  -
Who ever heard of anything like this?
A town in which the men are afraid of the women?
People who actually live in reality and no one else knows that they are there? (As in, government officials.)
A police officer disappears and no one notices? And this is after taking off of work and mixing police and personal business?
I only spent about US$0.30 on this movie (CNY2) and I still sometimes want to slap myself for wasting even that much money. This ... Read More
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If you like seeing films about innocent protagonists being tortured and killed with no sense of justice, this movie is for you. Please do not support this type of filmmaking. It was bad enough that they made this movie the first time. Nicholas Cage and everyone involved with the making of this movie should be ashamed!
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First off, I have to say that the movie as it is intended (a horror flick) would only rate a 1/2 star or no stars. However as an unintentionally funny flick that's now a camp classic, it would get at least 2-3 stars. Some of the scenes are so outrageously bad that you can't help but laugh.
The 2006 film takes on the daunting task of remaking a film that's regarded as a brilliant classic, a task that should have been left for better directors or (more wisely) left alone. Nick Cage plays ... Read More
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Well done, Hollywood. Another European cinematic classic well and truly butchered. Any remake was always bound to pale, but this shallow, Disneyfied sham is actually too bad to be true. Anthony Shaffer's original story has been gutted of all the sub texts and research that made the original so fascinating. Instead, we have a lazily written, lethargically directed and appallingly acted mess of a movie which throws out any sense of structure and goes for style over content. The endless references to other ... Read More
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This is by far one of the worst movies I have ever seen. It's on par with Showgirls. Save a couple hours of your life and don't watch.
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