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The Clearing (2004)
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Genre | Romance |
Format | Dolby, Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Closed-captioned, Subtitled, Dubbed, Widescreen |
Contributor | Matt Craven, Wendy Crewson, Larry Pine, Elizabeth Ruscio, Melissa Sagemiller, Robert Redford, Willem Dafoe, Gwen McGee, Sarah Koskoff, Alessandro Nivola, Diana Scarwid, Helen Mirren, Justin Haythe, Pieter Jan Brugge See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 35 minutes |
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Boasting the year?s most critically acclaimed and talented cast, including Robert Redford, Hellen Mirren, and William DaFoe, THE CLEARING is a taut, engrossing thriller about fate, love, and missed opportunities. ?Redford gives one of the best performances ever? as a self-made tycoon kidnapped and now in the most important negotiation ever ? for his life?
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 2.24 ounces
- Item model number : 024543152484
- Director : Pieter Jan Brugge
- Media Format : Dolby, Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC, Closed-captioned, Subtitled, Dubbed, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 35 minutes
- Actors : Robert Redford, Willem Dafoe, Helen Mirren, Alessandro Nivola, Matt Craven
- Dubbed: : Spanish, French
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Unqualified, Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
- Studio : Fox Searchlight
- ASIN : B0002XVKLS
- Writers : Justin Haythe, Pieter Jan Brugge
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #14,870 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #546 in Romance (Movies & TV)
- #615 in Mystery & Thrillers (Movies & TV)
- #2,391 in Drama DVDs
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- Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2005Why wasn't this a more successful movie? If nothing else, the ending is tragic. The makers of The Clearing had the guts to to reject a happy ending---and paid the price. Robert Redford, Helen Miren, and Wilhelm Defoe are fantastic. This kidnapping story rivets one's attention. I also regretfully believe that Robert Redford's advanced age is held against him. The younger viewers are simply not interested in actors old enough to be their grandfather. Did somebody tell you life is fair? Oh well, they sure lied to you. Redford is not my my favorite person. His left wing political activism turns me off. Nonetheless, he has earned the right to be considered one of the best film actors of our age.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2013The cast is everything you think it's going to be (although Wilem Dafoe could have brought a little more heat). The plot was interesting and unfolded in a way that kept me hooked and thinking. I liked that the director knew when to get the movie out of the and let the actors act.
Without spoiling anything, some of the characters were motivated by events unknown and I was left wanting for understanding at the end.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2016It's a very exceptional movie with two exceptional actors. I collect everything having to do with Redford, and this is one of the more interesting movies that entails, principally, two actors in a most interesting dialectical narrative. The culmination of the movie is a bit shocking, but the viewer will have to watch the movie to find out how it ends.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2020One to seemovie. Robert Redford and Helen Mirren great. Good script. Mature.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2022The considerable talents of Robert Redford, Helen Mirren, and Willem Dafoe are not enough to rescue this mediocre film about the kidnapping of a business executive for ransom. For me, the plot and the characters’ motivations just didn’t hang together. I kept thinking there would be some sort of surprise or twist at the end, and there wasn’t. I was left with the thought: That's it? That's all that there is? If you like Redford, Mirren, and/or Dafoe, go ahead and watch, but prepare to be puzzled and/or disappointed.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2018Not one of Redford's better movies but even a mediocre movie with Redford and Helen Mirren is better than a great movie with lesser players. Surprise ending. Did not see that coming. We have watched it a couple of times. Two exceptional actors hold up a good but not great script.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2017I bought this dvd not thinking I had not seen before,
But as the movie was playing I remembered seeing . Good movie
- Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2015We got it earlier than estimated date & it plays good too! Thank you very much & have a nice day! 😆 ☺ 😎
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- MickeyReviewed in the United Kingdom on March 20, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars Would recommend this seller
Really pleased with my dvd and the fast service.
- Nathalie L.Reviewed in Canada on September 28, 2014
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
GOOD MOVIE, GREAT ACTORS.
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tegestReviewed in France on September 24, 2014
5.0 out of 5 stars Surprenant
Film très bien interprété et mis en oeuvre ! Nous ne savons pas où cela nous entraîne et lorsque la vérité nous saute aux yeux nous sommes scotchés !! très bon film pour les amateurs de thriller psychologique !
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Riviere JulieReviewed in France on August 28, 2016
4.0 out of 5 stars Beau casting + beau film
En général, en regardant un film de ce genre, on ne l'a pas plus tôt commencé qu'on en connaît déjà la fin. Je dois avouer que pour la première fois, je n'étais pas certaine de ce qu'il se passerait. On a toujours nos hypothèses, bien sûr, mais il n'y en a pas une qui a pris le dessus. Ca fait plaisir de pouvoir encore regarder un film Américain sans en connaître l'issue dès le commencement.
Les acteurs sont excellents (bien entendu, il suffit de regarder leurs noms pour savoir qu'ils sont tout sauf débutants...)
Ne vous attendez surtout pas à un film d'action, vous seriez déçus. En revanche, si vous aimez bien les films qui jouent avec vos émotions, je vous le recommande.
- Fraser TweedieReviewed in the United Kingdom on April 26, 2014
4.0 out of 5 stars Deserving of a much wider audience
This was the directorial debut of Dutchman Pieter Jan Brugge, whose previous background was in film production. The story, which he also wrote, was loosely inspired by actual events which took place in the Netherlands back in 1987.
Ostensibly it is about the kidnapping of a rich, successful and self-made businessman, Wayne Hayes (Robert Redford) by a disgruntled former employee and loser, Wayne Mack (Willem Dafoe), and the attempts by Wayne’s distraught wife Eileen (Helen Mirren) and their two grown-up children, abetted (but not necessarily aided) by the FBI to secure his release.
But it is also about the separate journeys of the three main players as they react to the events which have been set in motion. For Wayne, as he stumbles through the forest with his captor it is a re-evaluation of his love for his wife, for Eileen (an under-stated acting masterclass by Mirren) it is the struggle to remain focussed and strong despite the stress and the unfolding revelations about the true state of her marriage, and for Arnold it is the road to the eventual discovery that what is meant to be his second chance at life, may not turn out to be the salvation he desperately seeks.
Despite the very strong performances from Redford, Mirren and Dafoe, ‘The Clearing’ went straight to the video market in the UK. Perhaps veteran actors in the lead roles were not deemed appropriate for the popcorn guzzlers in the multiplexes, perhaps the plot was too slow moving, too intense and too realistic to have the audience on the edge of their seats, perhaps the non-linear construction was an unnecessary complexity. A great pity, for overall it is a fine film, deserving of a much wider audience.