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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Dolby Digital (5.1), English, Subtitled, French, Spanish, Dubbed & Subtitled
Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) play a deadly game of cat and mouse with three intruders--Burnham (Forest Whitaker), Raoul (Dwight Yoakam) and Junior (Jared Leto)--during a brutal home invasion. But the Panic Room into which they escape is the very place that holds what the intruders are desperately seeking.
"...some fine, jolting surprises along the way." A.O. Scott, The New York Times
"...a perfectly constructed recipe for buttock-clenching, palm-sweating tension." Neil Smith, BBCi
"A classy, intelligent thriller..." Paul Clinton, CNN
"Tense, terrific, sweaty-palmed fun." Rene Rodriquez, Miami Herald
"[Jodie Foster]...is spellbinding." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Editor's Note
As David Fincher's PANIC ROOM begins, recently divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) halfheartedly tours an old New York City townhouse with her restless young daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart). Using money from her divorce settlement, the unhappy mother decides to buy the spacious home. The former abode of a wealthy eccentric, this townhouse contains an unusual extra feature, a supposedly impenetrable "panic room" equipped with surveillance monitors, a separate phone line, and other survival aids, where residents can hide in case of emergency. When three men--Burnham (Forest Whitaker), Junior (Jared Leto), and Raoul (Dwight Yoakam)--break into their new home, Meg and Sarah end up using the panic room much sooner than they could have possibly imagined. And, unfortunately for them, these intruders are not simple burglars; they possess knowledge that makes the situation much more perilous.Hitchcockian in its confined setting and carefully doled-out suspense, Fincher's PANIC ROOM is more straightforward than his infamous FIGHT CLUB, though no less engaging. Foster (who replaced Nicole Kidman after she injured herself on the set of MOULIN ROUGE) gives her best performance since THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. The thieves are equally compelling--Whitaker shines as a likeable, sad-eyed security expert; Leto provides comic relief as a talkative brat; and Yoakam is perfectly loathsome as an armed-to-the-teeth psycho. Although the film features some of Fincher's trademark hi-tech effects, its true bells and whistles are the excellent cast, the stunning photography, the moody score, and the simple yet thrilling story.
| Features | Makeup Effects Featurette With Alec Gillis And Tom Woodruff, Jr. | | Tour The Brownstone And Take An Interactive Tour Of The CG Set | | Shooting Panic Room: An Hour Long Documentary On The Principal Photography Phase | | Sequence Breakdowns: An Interactive Look At The Creation Of 4 Separate Scenes In The Film | | Commentary By Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker And Dwight Yoakam | | 8 Featurettes On The Prep Phase, From Previsualization Through Testing | | Interactive Previsualization: Compare The Previsualization, Storyboards, Dailies And Final Film In A Multi-Angle, Multi-Audio Feature With Optional Commentary | | Scene Selection | | Interactive Menus | | Commentary By David Fincher | | A Multi-Angle Look At The Scoring Session Conducted By Howard Shore | | Subtitles: English, Chinese, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai | | Audio: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | 21 Documentaries And Featurettes On The Visual Effects | | On Sound Design With Ren Klyce | | Digital Intermediate And Other Features Dealing With The Post Production Phase |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 7/22/2008 |
| Running Time: 112 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2002 | | Catalog ID: 02609 | | UPC: 00043396026094 | | Number of Discs: 3 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 2.40:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...PANIC ROOM is Fincher's high-style testament to the cool things movies can do to make us jump out of our seats in the dark....Foster nails the role, giving a tight, focused performance illuminated by shards of feeling..." 04/11/2002 p.137-8New York Times
"...Mr. Fincher has mastered the traditional syntax of cinematic suspense: the shifting points of view, startling cuts and slow camera movements that work subliminally to fill us with dread and anxiety..." 03/29/2002 p.E1 USA Today
"...Efficiently directed, fabulously shot....Photographed in the darkest visible tones by two of the industries greatest, ROOM and its tilting/panning camera have a blast zipping through and around a dozen large rooms..." 03/29/2002 p.4E Rolling Stone
"...PANIC ROOM sticks with us. Fincher works on a deeper level than just scares. He shows us the demons prowling around in our subconscious, where we really live..." 05/09/2002 p.80 Los Angeles Times
"...Fincher again demonstrates undeniable visual flair. There are swooping, insinuating camera moves, disconcerting rolls and tumbles, and all manner of bravura displays..." 03/29/2002 p.C1 Film Comment
"...PANIC ROOM rigorously and ingeniously maps narrative onto space....It's the internal rhythms of each shot, the counterpoint of images and sound, and the jolt of each edit that are inexhaustibly pleasurable..." 05/01/2002 p.74-5 Total Film
"...Eyeball it as a sustained exercise in style and suspense and it delivers. Big time....Fincher succeeds by literally ignoring the boundaries..." 06/01/2002 p.98-9 Variety
"...Smartly plotted, convincingly acted and brilliantly executed technically....[An] engrossing thriller..." 03/25/2002 p.35-42 Rolling Stone 9 of 10
...Panic Room is Fincher's high-style testament to the cool things movies can do to make us j - Peter Travers
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