| | | Includes 4 Alternate Endings
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.40:1, Dolby Digital (5.1) Dts, Alternate Endings, Deleted/Extended Scenes, Featurette, English, Spanish Subtitled
Robert De Niro and Dakota Fanning keep pulses pounding and hearts racing in this chilling horror hit about a troubled father and daughter tormented by someone Ð or something Ð named Charlie, a malevolent entity who may or may not be "imaginary" but is definitely the stuff nightmares are made of!
"Hide and Seek, an engaging little thriller about a traumatized child and her "imaginary" friend, stands above much of the dreck in theaters now" Edith Alderette, San Francisco Examiner
Editor's Note
Dakota Fanning and Robert De Niro slug it out for top acting honors in this creepy psychodrama. After his wife is found dead in the bathtub, Manhattan psychologist David Callaway (De Niro) decides to take his traumatized child, Emily (Fanning), to live in a big, gloomy country house upstate. The shadow of the twisty backyard woods--or something darker--soon creeps over the house and Emily finds a weird friend named Charlie, who her father believes is only imaginary. Charlie likes to play games, and is also very jealous of anyone who tries to come between Emily and her dad, like an attractive local divorcee (Elizabeth Shue) and Emily's New York psychiatrist (Famke Jannsen).Director John Polson takes his time letting the little details of the story accrue in the patently somber tradition of directors like M. Night Shyamalan. John Ottman's score is spooky, the photography is drenched in warm colors, and the mood is relentlessly strange and unsettling. De Niro is fine as a wheezing, aging doctor who can't seem to fathom the extent to which his domestic situation has moved past his control. Of course there's a shocking twist or two, plenty of jolts, red herrings, and sinister woodland explorations (including a dark and foreboding cave), but the spookiest ingredient in this potboiler is the brilliant Fanning. With her jet black hair, pale skin, and wide blue eyes, she enters the realm of instant horror iconhood as the alternately frightened and frightening Emily. Other cast members include Dylan Baker as the local sheriff, and Amy Irving, excellent in her few scenes as Emily's mother.
| Features | 4 Alternate Endings | | Audio: English Dolby Digital DTS & 5.1 Surround Sound | | Audio: Spanish & French Dolby Digital Stereo | | Deleted Scenes | | Director/Writer Commentary | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Dts, Spanish, French Dolby Surround Sound | | Widescreen Presentation | | Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Deleted/Extended Scenes with optional commentary by Director John Polson, Screenwriter Ari Schlossberg and Editor Jeffrey Ward | | Pre-Vis Sequences | | Making of Featurette | | 4 Seamlessly Branched Alternate Endings with optional Commentary by Director John Polson, Screenwriter Ari Schlossberg and Editor Jeffrey Ward |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Foxvideo |
| Release Date: 8/6/2009 |
| Running Time: 100 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2005 | | Catalog ID: 2228850 | | UPC: 00024543188506 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
MTV Award (2005) |  | Dakota Fanning, Winner, Best Frightened Performance |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"Miss Fanning has both chops and a preternaturally intense screen presence..." 01/28/2005 p.E20Sight and Sound
"Dakota Fanning is precociously deadpan..." 03/01/2005 p.54 James Berardinelli's ReelViews 2 of 10
...a clumsy, illogical, and reprehensible motion picture. And, considering what the little girl play - James Berardinelli
Chicago Sun-Times 4 of 10
Hide and Seek is not really interested in its situation, except as a way to get to the horror - Roger Ebert
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