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Features
• Anamorphic
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby
• DVD-Video
• Subtitled
• Widescreen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 2001
DVD Release : 14 October, 2003 |
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The Safety of Objects description
A gorgeous collage of human details, The Safety of Objects intertwines the stories of four families living as neighbors in a pleasant suburb, all of them grappling in various ways with the aftermath of a car accident that left a teenager in a coma. That may sound histrionic, but the movie is carefully composed of little things, some ordinary--a lawyer uproots his wife's flowers because he mistakes them for weeds--and some absurd--a boy fantasizes about having a relationship with his sister's doll. But all of it, absurd or not, has some core of emotion. As the title suggests, the characters seek solace in the inanimate, things that can't betray, abandon, or truly need them. The outstanding ensemble cast includes Glenn Close, Dermot Mulroney, Patricia Clarkson, Mary Kay Place, Jessica Campbell (Election), and Kristen Stewart (Panic Room), among others; all fit together into a deeply felt whole. --Bret Fetzer |
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The Safety of Objects Customer Reviews
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This film has a great cast but what a waste of talent! The individual short stories are artlessly scrambled together with disastrously fragmented results.
Trying to film A.M. Homes's fiction must be like trying to film a bunch of Peanuts comic strips by separating & shuffling the individual panels. The rhythm & pace of the originals are gone & in their place we get a bunch of scenes out of a very mediocre soap opera.
Each episode, each character needs total focus, the reader/audience's complete attention. Everything is happening INSIDE the characters. This movie demolishes any possibilty of that ever happening. On the page the boy who falls in love with Barbie (A Real Doll) is priceless. On the screen he's pretentious & unbelievable, a kid doing schtick.
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