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. Wicker Park movie reviews and ratings - Tributeca rating of 394 out of 5 Stars. Wicker Park is a 2004 American romantic thriller drama. This rats nest of tangled love begins with Matthew Josh Hartnett a guy were supposed to believe is an advertising executive living in.

Wicker Park Matthew Josh Hartnett Hollywood Homicide is a NYC investment banker who is nervous about a major business trip to China he is taking that evening. Its one of those plots where incredible coincidences happen right on cue but common-sense events are impossible. Its a brutally cold snowy winter in Chicago which perfectly sets.

With Josh Hartnett Rose Byrne Matthew Lillard Diane Kruger. Wicker Park is an American remake of a French film entitled LAppartement Ive not seen the original so Im going to review this movie on its own merits. Its a remake of Gilles Mimounis 1996 movie LAppartement.

ENTER CITY STATE OR ZIP CODE GO. WICKER PARK builds suspense by keeping the plot details a secret until the end but this tactic backfires and only frustrates and bores the audience. Josh Hartnett plays a successful photographer with a beautiful fiancée.

But one day Lisa vanishes. A young Chicago advertising executive believes a woman he sees in a café is his long-lost love. Regardless of his near-perfect life he cant forget his first love who disappeared years ago.

When does heartfelt love become stalking. Review by Connor Carey ½ Wicker Park has an intriguing premise but the irritating structure and overly convoluted way it tells its story severely weighs it down. But theres no fire in his belly.

Aside from Rose Byrne s complex performance there s nothing here that improves upon the. Matthew Josh Hartnett and Lisa Diane Kruger are madly in love. McGuigans incessant use of split-screen alludes to the films thematic preoccupation with duality but the irony is that like the obvious pop songs that underscore every big scene highlighted by a climactic cover rendition of Coldplays faux-sincere The Scientist this vapid film exhibits a single-minded desire to spell things.

If youre into laboratory observations Wicker Park may be enjoyed most as a psychological study of cute courting rituals which can only be found in the movies. I admit this movie was confusing the first time I watched it. Friday Sep 3 2004.

This is a smart movie full of astonishing reverses and switchbacks and it adroitly walks the thin line between too clever by half and not clever enough by three-quarters In a favorable review Roger Ebert says Wicker Park works because the actors invest their scenes. Rather it embarks upon the disappearance of his lady love who he discovers two years later. Friends have asked me to explain and now that they get it they like it too.

Directed by Paul McGuigan. More about Wicker Park. Wicker Park movie reviews Metacritic score.

December 28 2004 When you see something from afar you develop. Josh Hartnett Rose Byrne Matthew Lillard Diane Kruger Director. Monday September 19 113257 AM.

This movie has no idea what it wants to be when it grows up. Read the Empire Movie review of Wicker Park. His belief leads to obsession as he puts his life on hold in order to trail her.

Wicker Park stars a young cast of actors in a movie that ponders the question. Its not available on DVD in the United States. Wicker Park is a remake of a 1996 French film that nobody saw called LAppartement.

At dinner with his fiancee Jessica Pare Lost and Delirious and her brother - his boss - Matthew thinks he spies Lisa Diane Kruger Troy the love of his life who mysteriously left him two years prior. What made the story unbelievable was that as a guy if a girl slept with me on the first date sure Id see her again because free sex is free sex but fall in love with her. Set in the Wicker Park section of Chicago this nonlinear romantic thriller introduces us to Matt a young man being swept into a life hes not sure he wants.

Characters drink and one becomes tipsy. Hes nearly engaged to a girl named Rebecca and has been putting in time with her brothers ad agency. Matthew is engaged to Rebecca Jessica Pare.

Wicker Park reviews ratings movie reviews. Josh Hartnett Diane Kruger Matthew Lillard Rose Byrne Jessica Pare. Parent Movie ReviewbyRod Gustafson.

Become a member to write your own review. Josh Hartnett works at Wicker Park as a digital photographer but the film hardly regards this. Looking for movie tickets.

Wicker Park Cert 12A Peter Bradshaw Friday 10 September 2004. Skip to main content For Parents. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing Wicker Park near you.

Intricately moving back and forth in time and revealing the story from each characters perspective Wicker Park is an intense psychological drama about a man. There are tense and suspenseful situations and some jump-out-at. Anamorphic Widescreen 2351 Studio.

Simon enters an emotional tailspin and begins an obsessive quest. Paul McGuigan Cast. Review by Gordon Justesen.

Parents need to know that this movie has brief strong language some explicit sexual references and non-explicit sexual situations. Dolby Digital 51 French Dolby Surround Video. 115 Minutes Release Date.

Although the characters spend half the movie on the phone neither one succeeds in making the single call that would clear everything up.

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