Wicker Park

United States

2004

115 Min

Color

2.35:1

English

Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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PROD Andre Lamal, Gary Lucchesi, Tom Rosenberg, Marcus Viscidi

SCR Gilles Mimouni, Brandon Boyce

CAST Josh Hartnett, Diane Kruger, Matthew Lillard, Rose Byrne, Jessica Paré, Christopher Cousins, Vlasta Vrana, Amy Sobol, Ted Whittall

Two years after getting his heart broken, Chicago investment banker Matthew (Josh Hartnett) returns to the “scene of the crime” — his old neighborhood of Wicker Park. But the newly engaged Matthew flips when he sees a woman (Diane Kruger) who looks just like his long-lost love. Think Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo with the same quotient of danger and obsession. Matthew Lillard and Jessica Paré co-star.

Director

Paul McGuigan

A native of Scotland, Paul McGuigan was a successful photographer in Glasgow before branching out into television commercials and documentary films, including Football, Faith and Flutes, about religion and soccer in Glasgow; and Playing Nintendo With God, about children with AIDS. In 1998 he won the Best Newcomer Award from the Royal Television Society for his short film, The Granton Star Cause. He expanded this into a trilogy based on stories by Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh and released it as his first feature length film, The Acid House (1998). The movie won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Stockholm Film Festival, the AMC Audience Award and the Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver at Fantasporto and was named Best Film at the New York Underground Film Festival.

McGuigan next directed the controversial Gangster No. 1 (2000) starring Malcolm McDowell and Paul Bettany—which both dazzled and disturbed audiences with its darkly violent tale of a criminal in London. McGuigan’s… read more

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Holger Haase

22Mar12

Utterly disappointing for fans of L'APARTMENT. In the original we have attractive adults, here we have whiny pretty boys. The surprises make way to boredom. Important threads (like the stalker) are left unexplored. And what's that? A happy ending tacked on just because Hollywood can't handle anything else? The original is surprising and sexy; the remake just goes through the motions without ever really getting it.