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Tom Farr,
Tom Farr,
Lauren A. Bonfiglio,
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Walter Salles, Jr.,
Walter Salles, Jr.
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: Not Rated
: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
: Horror
: 103 min.
: English
: Spanish, French
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Directed by Walter Salles Jr., this remake of Hideo Nakata's supernatural psychological drama Honogurai Mizuno Soko Kara revolves around the plight of a single mother (Jennifer Connelly) whose messy divorce and subsequent battle for the custody of her five-year-old daughter is taking a heavy toll on her emotional well-being. Ultimately, the mother and daughter are able to relocate to an apartment, which, despite its excessively dilapidated interior, seems to be an adequate location for beginning a new life. Before long, however, what appears to be the spirit of a young girl begins to haunt them. No stranger to mental illness, the wary young woman brushes the visions aside as part of the inherent stress of making the transition from housewife to working, single mom. As time goes by and the apparent haunting does not subside, the apartment's new residents are forced to examine the history of its former tenants. Dark Water also features performances from John C. Reilly, Tim Roth, and Dougray Scott. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide
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by talltale
February 6, 2006 - 6:25 AM PST
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3 out of 3 members found this review helpful
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If you'd care to see what director Walter Salles ("Central Station," "Motorcycle Diaries") can do with a Hollywood remake of Japanese horror, DARK WATER will probably be the first and only chance you'll get. A box-office failure theatrically, it's still a pretty good film--of this type.
As usual with J-horror (and its generally inferior American remakes), atmosphere produces most of the creepiness. Connelly and the rest of the cast do well enough, and the ghost story comes through with more than a little sadness, plus a few chills. New York City's Roosevelt Island has rarely looked as depressing and barely livable: Except for the schoolroom scenes, it appears to have no more than a half dozen actual residents. |
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