Godsend PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 17, 2004
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn & Robert De Niro | |
Performer: | Cameron Bright | |
Directed by | Nick Hamm | |
Music by | Brian Tyler | |
Screenwriting by | Mark Bomback | |
Produced by | Marc Butan, Michael Paseornek, Cathy Schulman & Sean O'Keefe | |
Director of Photography: | Kramer Morgenthau |
Entertainment Reviews:
As in most bad thrillers, the number of pointless shocks increases in direct proportion to the drama's decreasing vitality, like defibrilator paddles jolting a dying man.
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Chicago Reader
An embarrassingly nonsensical misfire.
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Time Out
Sometimes interesting but always predictable.
Observer
Rating: 2/5 --
Occasionally suspenseful but more often ludicrous.
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Sacramento News & Review
It ends up like any mass produced genre piece in which the only thing that is well developed is the film negative.
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Urban Cinefile
Rating: D+ --
"Godsend" suffers from a feeble plot, laughable dialogue, and thriller cliches that barely effect the characteristic jolts of the genre.
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ColeSmithey.com
Rating: 1/5 --
Perhaps it's appropriate that a horror flick about cloning should be a derivative affair...
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Product Description:
The trials of parenthood are at the forefront of this murky horror effort that recalls 1970s child-possession hits like AUDREY ROSE ('77) and The EXORCIST ('73). Inner-city school teacher Paul (Greg Kinnear) and his wife Jessica (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) are distraught after losing their eight-year-old son David (Cameron Bright) in an accident. At the funeral, Jessica's old science professor Dr. Wells (Robert Deniro) offers them a chance to rebuild their lives: a mansion in the country near his DNA clinic, a private school teaching job for Paul, and an exact clone of their dead son. Sworn to secrecy and facing all sorts of moral issues, the grief-stricken couple accepts Wells' offer. All goes well until the new David passes the age he previously died, then comes ghostly visions of burning children, and premonitions of murder. A creepily unobtrusive score and the film's drab look help maintain a welcome low-key, character-driven mood here, with the result that GODSEND works both as a standard horror film and a darkly psychological meditation on the uncertainty, misgivings, and sheer terror involved with child rearing. Deniro is great, as usual, and the gorgeous Romijn-Stamos proves herself adept in an unglamorous, tensely dramatic change-of-pace role as the split-apart mother.
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- UPC: 031398163251
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