Actors: Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam, Jared Leto
Directors: David Fincher
Writers: David Koepp
Producers: Ceán Chaffin, David Koepp, Gavin Polone, John S. Dorsey, Judy Hofflund
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (DTS 5.1)
Subtitles: English, French
Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: R
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Release Date: September 17, 2002
Run Time: 112 minutes
ASIN: B00006CXGF
An effective exercise in "confined cinema," Panic Room is a finely crafted thriller that ultimately transcends the thinness of its premise. David Koepp's screenplay is basically Wait Until Dark on steroids, so director David Fincher (Seven, The Game) compensates with elaborate CGI-assisted camera moves, jazzing up his visuals while a relocated New York divorcée (Jodie Foster) and her daughter (Kristen Stewart) fight for their lives against a trio of tenacious burglars (Jared Leto, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam) in their new Manhattan townhouse. They're safe in a customized, impenetrable "panic room," but the burglars want what's in the room's safe, so mother and daughter (and Koepp and Fincher) must find clever ways to turn the tables and persevere. Suspense and intelligence are admirably maintained, with Foster (who replaced the then-injured Nicole Kidman) riffing on her Silence of the Lambs resourcefulness. It's not as viscerally satisfying as Fincher's previous thrillers, but Panic Room definitely holds your attention. --Jeff Shannon
Product Description
Trapped in their new york brownstones panic room a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins newly divorced meg altman and her young daughter sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders burnham raoul and junior during a brutal home invasion. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 09/27/2005 Starring: Jodie Foster Dwight Yoakam Run time: 112 minutes Rating: R Director: David Fincher
