Mmc Joule Films
Presents
Hide Away
Directed by Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals, Edge of America), and an audience favorite at SXSW festival, Hideaway is a stirring drama that follows the story of a successful businessman (Josh Lucas) attempting to resurrect his life. Entering an idyllic harbor as a broken and haunted man, he buys and boards the dilapidated sailboat, Hesperus. Disturbed at night by unsettling dreams of his past, the boat becomes a beacon of hope as he begins the challenge of bringing back the shine to the tarnished vessel . and to his life.
Directed by: Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals)
Written by: Peter Vanderwall
Produced by: Sally Jo Effenson, Josh Lucas, Kevin Reidy
Director of Photography: Elliot Davis (Winner . 2011 SXSW Competition Award Best Cinematography-Narrative Competition)
Starring: Josh Lucas (The Lincoln Lawyer, J. Edgar), Ayelet Zurer (Angels and Demons), James Cromwell (The Artist) and Casey Labow (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn...
Presents
Hide Away
Directed by Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals, Edge of America), and an audience favorite at SXSW festival, Hideaway is a stirring drama that follows the story of a successful businessman (Josh Lucas) attempting to resurrect his life. Entering an idyllic harbor as a broken and haunted man, he buys and boards the dilapidated sailboat, Hesperus. Disturbed at night by unsettling dreams of his past, the boat becomes a beacon of hope as he begins the challenge of bringing back the shine to the tarnished vessel . and to his life.
Directed by: Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals)
Written by: Peter Vanderwall
Produced by: Sally Jo Effenson, Josh Lucas, Kevin Reidy
Director of Photography: Elliot Davis (Winner . 2011 SXSW Competition Award Best Cinematography-Narrative Competition)
Starring: Josh Lucas (The Lincoln Lawyer, J. Edgar), Ayelet Zurer (Angels and Demons), James Cromwell (The Artist) and Casey Labow (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn...
- 5/17/2012
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Screened
Toronto International Film Festival
TORONTO -- Cross "Body Heat" with "No Way Out" and you wind up with "Out of Time", a slick crime melodrama with more style than substance. Director Carl Franklin certainly knows all the right moves in this genre, so even a less-than-stellar performance by Denzel Washington probably won't hurt the film's chances of becoming a medium-range success for MGM.
The locale of Florida's Gulf Coast and the way a love-starved man's sexual indiscretions lead him into a frame-up for murder suggest "Body Heat". But "No Way Out" (itself a remake of "The Big Clock") contributes the film's two key elements: a rapidly ticking clock and a cop desperate to solve a double murder when he knows all the clues point to him. Working from a tight script by first-time screenwriter Dave Collard, Franklin moves the story at a brisk pace as his often-in-motion camera captures the sultry sensuality of a backwater coastal town.
A noirish tale sets up small-town police chief Matt Lee Whitlock (Washington) for the fall as smoothly as a well-blended summer drink. Estranged from wife Alex (the striking Eva Mendes), who happens to be a police detective, Matt fools around with Ann Merai (Sanaa Lathan), whose nasty ex-football player husband Chris Dean Cain) has gotten wind of the affair. Matt then gets hit with two blows: His wife files for divorce, and Ann Merai learns she has terminal cancer.
Ann Merai's only long-shot hope is alternative therapy in Europe, which costs a fortune. But wait! There is that $1 million life insurance policy her husband bought a year ago. Maybe she can leverage that policy for quick cash. When this scheme fails, she changes the beneficiary to Matt, and in exchange he gives her stacks of drug money, which his office is holding for a trial years away. Then Ann Merai's house burns down that night in an arson fire, killing both her and her husband.
Alex is on the case the next morning. Matt realizes the evidence will all too quickly point to him. Frantic, Matt struggles to stay one step ahead of his enterprising wife to solve the murder before he finds himself in jail. Of course, logic would dictate that Matt should take his wife into his confidence
after all, she is still on friendly terms with him. But what fun would that be for viewers?
The film contains a number of well-orchestrated sequences where that one step shortens to a half-step, especially at a Miami hotel where Matt races to get to a suspicious character (Alex Carter) before his wife does, only to wind up hanging from a hotel balcony with the suspect.
Washington never appears to have gotten a handle on his character, though. Matt is a sleazy guy who doesn't just make a mistake or two but a whole series of them, all predicated on his own self-interest. Yet Washington tries to play Matt as a sympathetic innocent, which doesn't wash. A little of that "Training Day" evil cunning might have worked better.
Mendes, in her best role yet, gives her cop plenty of energy and femininity. John Billingsley is wonderful as a slacker medical examiner who becomes Matt's sidekick in crime and serves as the film's comic relief. Lathan and Cain hit just the right notes of guile and ardor.
Adding to the film's rich atmosphere are terrific Florida locations, Theo Van de Sande's elegant cinematography -- emphasizing voluptuous earth tones -- and Graeme Revell's rousing Latin jazz score.
OUT OF TIME
MGM
An Original Film/Monarch Pictures production
Credits:
Director: Carl Franklin
Screenwriter: Dave Collard
Producers: Neal H. Moritz, Jesse B'Franklin
Executive producers: Kevin Reidy, Jon Berg, Damien Saccani, Alex Gartner
Director of photography: Theo Van de Sande
Production designer: Paul Peters
Music: Graeme Revell
Costume designer: Sharen Davis
Editor: Carole Kravetz Aykanian
Cast:
Matt Lee Whitlock: Denzel Washington
Detective Alexandra Whitlock: Eva Mendes
Ann Merai: Sanaa Lathan
Chris: Dean Cain
Chae: John Billingsley
Tony: Robert Baker
Cabot: Alex Carter
Running time -- 105 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Toronto International Film Festival
TORONTO -- Cross "Body Heat" with "No Way Out" and you wind up with "Out of Time", a slick crime melodrama with more style than substance. Director Carl Franklin certainly knows all the right moves in this genre, so even a less-than-stellar performance by Denzel Washington probably won't hurt the film's chances of becoming a medium-range success for MGM.
The locale of Florida's Gulf Coast and the way a love-starved man's sexual indiscretions lead him into a frame-up for murder suggest "Body Heat". But "No Way Out" (itself a remake of "The Big Clock") contributes the film's two key elements: a rapidly ticking clock and a cop desperate to solve a double murder when he knows all the clues point to him. Working from a tight script by first-time screenwriter Dave Collard, Franklin moves the story at a brisk pace as his often-in-motion camera captures the sultry sensuality of a backwater coastal town.
A noirish tale sets up small-town police chief Matt Lee Whitlock (Washington) for the fall as smoothly as a well-blended summer drink. Estranged from wife Alex (the striking Eva Mendes), who happens to be a police detective, Matt fools around with Ann Merai (Sanaa Lathan), whose nasty ex-football player husband Chris Dean Cain) has gotten wind of the affair. Matt then gets hit with two blows: His wife files for divorce, and Ann Merai learns she has terminal cancer.
Ann Merai's only long-shot hope is alternative therapy in Europe, which costs a fortune. But wait! There is that $1 million life insurance policy her husband bought a year ago. Maybe she can leverage that policy for quick cash. When this scheme fails, she changes the beneficiary to Matt, and in exchange he gives her stacks of drug money, which his office is holding for a trial years away. Then Ann Merai's house burns down that night in an arson fire, killing both her and her husband.
Alex is on the case the next morning. Matt realizes the evidence will all too quickly point to him. Frantic, Matt struggles to stay one step ahead of his enterprising wife to solve the murder before he finds himself in jail. Of course, logic would dictate that Matt should take his wife into his confidence
after all, she is still on friendly terms with him. But what fun would that be for viewers?
The film contains a number of well-orchestrated sequences where that one step shortens to a half-step, especially at a Miami hotel where Matt races to get to a suspicious character (Alex Carter) before his wife does, only to wind up hanging from a hotel balcony with the suspect.
Washington never appears to have gotten a handle on his character, though. Matt is a sleazy guy who doesn't just make a mistake or two but a whole series of them, all predicated on his own self-interest. Yet Washington tries to play Matt as a sympathetic innocent, which doesn't wash. A little of that "Training Day" evil cunning might have worked better.
Mendes, in her best role yet, gives her cop plenty of energy and femininity. John Billingsley is wonderful as a slacker medical examiner who becomes Matt's sidekick in crime and serves as the film's comic relief. Lathan and Cain hit just the right notes of guile and ardor.
Adding to the film's rich atmosphere are terrific Florida locations, Theo Van de Sande's elegant cinematography -- emphasizing voluptuous earth tones -- and Graeme Revell's rousing Latin jazz score.
OUT OF TIME
MGM
An Original Film/Monarch Pictures production
Credits:
Director: Carl Franklin
Screenwriter: Dave Collard
Producers: Neal H. Moritz, Jesse B'Franklin
Executive producers: Kevin Reidy, Jon Berg, Damien Saccani, Alex Gartner
Director of photography: Theo Van de Sande
Production designer: Paul Peters
Music: Graeme Revell
Costume designer: Sharen Davis
Editor: Carole Kravetz Aykanian
Cast:
Matt Lee Whitlock: Denzel Washington
Detective Alexandra Whitlock: Eva Mendes
Ann Merai: Sanaa Lathan
Chris: Dean Cain
Chae: John Billingsley
Tony: Robert Baker
Cabot: Alex Carter
Running time -- 105 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 10/23/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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