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Features: DVD, Special Edition, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), Featurette, Documentary, Music Video, Theatrical Trailer, Spanish, French Subtitled, 2 Discs
A brilliant and respected criminal psychologist, Dr. Miranda Grey (Halle Berry) is an expert at knowing what is rational. Under the direction of her husband (Charles S. Dutton), Miranda treats dangerously disturbed patients at the Woodward Penitentiary for Women. But Miranda's life is thrust into terrifying jeopardy after a cryptic encounter with a mysterious young girl leads to a nightmare beyond her wildest imagination.
"Gothika will manage to quicken your pulse and keep you in state of nervous anticipation." A.O. Scott / New York Times
Editor's Note
GOTHIKA stars Halle Berry as Dr. Miranda Grey, a psychiatrist who becomes a patient in her own mental hospital after she is accused of murdering her husband (Charles S. Dutton). Grey's only initial memory of the incident involves a chilling encounter with a distraught girl (Kathleen Mackey) on a rain-soaked road. The incarcerated and medicated Grey is now haunted by the same apparition, and she must convince her former colleague Pete Graham (Robert Downey Jr.) that she is not insane or guilty of murder. Meanwhile, the seemingly mad ramblings of Chloe (Penelope Cruz), one of Grey's former patients, now make more sense, and Grey must throw aside clinical logic to solve the supernatural murder mystery.Kassovitz, who is already a capable actor (AMELIE) and director (CRIMSON RIVERS), makes the leap to Hollywood filmmaking with GOTHIKA. Drawing from heavily from the Japanese horror renaissance that began with RINGU in the late 1990s, Kassovitz conjures up a forebodingly stark and shadowy tale. Berry continues her remarkable string of success (after her Oscar-winning role in MONSTER'S BALL, along with DIE ANOTHER DAY and X-MEN 2), portraying Grey as a traumatized and vulnerable yet determined woman who must unravel the brutal and bizarre knot of her own lost memory. As Grey's coworker, Downey Jr. adds an intriguing element to the film, and Cruz, as a frustrated inmate, gives an unusual quirky performance. A scare-laden thriller that delights in the strange and the frightening, GOTHIKA proves to be one of the finest of 2003's many horror films.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1; French Dolby Digital 5.1 | | Commentary By Director Mathieu Kassovitz | | Documentary: "On The Set Of Gothika" | | Featurette: "Painting with Fire" | | Interactive Menus | | Limp Bizkit "Behind Blue Eyes" Music Video | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Painting with Fire Featurette | | On the Set of Gothika Documentary | | Subtitles: French, Spanish | | MTV's Punk'd featuring Halle Berry at the opening of Gothika | | Music Video : Behind Blue Eyes by Limp Bizkit | | Interactive Menus : CGI enhanced environment based on theatrical set designs including patient drawings, notes, and interviews. | | Widescreen Presentation | | Making of Music Video Behind Blue Eyes | | Theatrical Trailer |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 10/12/2004 |
| Running Time: 98 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2003 | | Catalog ID: 39630 | | UPC: 00085393963026 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Image Award (2004) | | | Halle Berry, Nominee, Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture | | | Charles Dutton, Nominee, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"...Berry takes on the plump genre role with tense earnestness. And she's met head-on by Robert Downey Jr...." 11/28/2003 p.98Chicago Sun-Times
"The casting of Halle Berry is useful to the movie, because she evokes a vulnerable quality that triggers our concern." 11/21/2003 p.38 James Berardinelli's ReelViews 4 of 10
Gothika is a train-wreck of a motion picture. It opens fine, even going so far as to generate - James Berardinelli
Chicago Sun-Times 7 of 10
Any criticism of this movie that says it doesn't make sense is missing the point. Any review that fa - Roger Ebert
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