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Released Year: 2009
Runtime: 115 minutes
Directors: Richard Kelly
Casts: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Holmes Osborne, Lisa K. Wyatt, John Franchi, James Rebhorn, Michael Zegen, Celia Weston, Jenna Lamia, Jodie Brunelle, Frank Langella, Evelina Turen, Gillian Jacobs, Michele Durrett, Allyssa Brooke, Cheryl McMahon
IMDB: The Box (2009)
Ratings: 
(91 votes, average: 2.98 out of 5)
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(91 votes, average: 2.98 out of 5)Loading...Reviews
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Miami Herald -
The Box is a mess, but it's a curiously haunting, intriguing, brain-tickling mess, and it delivers that "Donnie Darko" feeling in truckloads. Or should that be rocketloads?
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Chicago Sun-Times -
This movie kept me involved and intrigued, and for that I'm grateful. I'm beginning to wonder whether, in some situations, absurdity might not be a strength.
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Film Threat -
The revelation of the film's mystery just barely makes sense. Yet, we dismiss it as an extended MacGuffin, and thus can delight in the film's devious turns.
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Variety -
Kelly's trademark mix of sci-fi, surrealism and suburbia occasionally entertains.
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Rolling Stone -
What a shame that Kelly's pacing doesn't run as fast as his imagination. Instead of sweeping you along, The Box just sits there like something unclaimed at lost and found. Damaged goods.
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The Box (2009)
Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. However pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world; someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the cross-hairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity.
The Box (2009)
(91 votes, average: 2.98 out of 5)Loading...
Information
Released Year: 2009
Runtime: 115 minutes
Directors: Richard Kelly
Casts: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Holmes Osborne, Lisa K. Wyatt, John Franchi, James Rebhorn, Michael Zegen, Celia Weston, Jenna Lamia, Jodie Brunelle, Frank Langella, Evelina Turen, Gillian Jacobs, Michele Durrett, Allyssa Brooke, Cheryl McMahon
IMDB: The Box (2009)
Storyline
Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. However pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world; someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the cross-hairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity.
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Reviews
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Miami Herald -
The Box is a mess, but it's a curiously haunting, intriguing, brain-tickling mess, and it delivers that "Donnie Darko" feeling in truckloads. Or should that be rocketloads?
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Chicago Sun-Times -
This movie kept me involved and intrigued, and for that I'm grateful. I'm beginning to wonder whether, in some situations, absurdity might not be a strength.
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Film Threat -
The revelation of the film's mystery just barely makes sense. Yet, we dismiss it as an extended MacGuffin, and thus can delight in the film's devious turns.
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Variety -
Kelly's trademark mix of sci-fi, surrealism and suburbia occasionally entertains.
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Rolling Stone -
What a shame that Kelly's pacing doesn't run as fast as his imagination. Instead of sweeping you along, The Box just sits there like something unclaimed at lost and found. Damaged goods.
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Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. However pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world; someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the cross-hairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity.
Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. However pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world; someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the cross-hairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity.
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Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. However pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world; someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the cross-hairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity.