The Gingerbread Man R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 13, 2002
- Originally Released: 1998
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, Robert Downey Jr., Daryl Hannah, Tom Berenger & Robert Duvall | |
Performer: | Famke Janssen, Jesse James, Mae Whitman, Troy Beyer & Wilbur Fitzgerald | |
Directed by | Robert Altman | |
Edited by | Geraldine Peroni | |
Screenplay by | Clyde Hayes | |
Original story by | John Grisham | |
Composition by | Mark Isham | |
Produced by | Jeremy Tannenbaum | |
Director of Photography: | Changwei Gu |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 1/4 --
Unless one counts a few running gibes against lawyers that can easily be imagined coming from Grisham, Altman basically chooses to treat this hackneyed story straight.
Chicago Reader
Rating: 4/5 --
With unexpected success, Robert Altman plays a John Grisham mystery in a seductive new key.
New York Times
Rating: 3.5/5 --
The performances are great.
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Film Threat
...[Altman] does fine work, both with his camera and with his troupe...
Box Office
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Robert Altman the up-and- down director meets John Grisham the constant mediocrity. Just where, in our hypothetical picture, should we place that unlikely scene?
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Globe and Mail
Rating: 3/4 --
Although The Gingerbread Man is a finely-tuned example of mainstream entertainment, and holds the audience's interest for most of its running length, it is a little disappointing.
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ReelViews
...Altman plays a John Grisham mystery in a seductive new key with THE GINGERBREAD MAN....[The film illustrates] the delicacy of Mr. Altman's brooding, richly atmospheric style...
New York Times
Product Description:
Robert Altman throws his chips into the film noir ring with this stylish, moody thriller that features a spot-on performance by Kenneth Branagh as Rick Magruder, a successful Savannah, Georgia lawyer. After a party celebrating a major victory, he offers Mallory Doss (Embeth Davidtz), a shy waitress whose car has been stolen, a lift home. Their relationship develops quickly and it isn't long before he sleeps with her. Soon after, however, Rick learns that Mallory's cat has been killed, which she attributes to her religious fanatic father, Dixon Doss (Robert Duvall). As Rick attempts to track Dixon down and protect Mallory from him, a new chain of events is unleashed which threatens to ruin his career and endanger the lives of his two children. Meanwhile, a hurricane looms in the distance, adding even greater tension to Rick's quickly deteriorating situation. As is typical with all of Altman's films, a high-profile cast converges to deliver solid individual performances. Standouts include--in addition to Branagh's hedonistic lawyer--Duvall, Robert Downey Jr., Tom Berenger, Daryl Hannah, and Davidtz. The first John Grisham-inspired film that wasn't adapted from one of the author's novels, THE GINGERBREAD MAN is more film noir than courtroom drama and is rendered suspensefully by maverick director Altman.