Hide and Seek Review
by Steve Rhodes (Steve DOT Rhodes AT InternetReviews DOT com)January 27th, 2005
HIDE AND SEEK
A film review by Steve Rhodes
Copyright 2005 Steve Rhodes
RATING (0 TO ****): 1/2
HIDE AND SEEK is the type of infuriating film that the studios love to dump on hapless moviegoers in the dog days of January. A movie that will easily earn a prominent position on my worst of the year list, it features Robert De Niro, as a psychologist whose wife (Amy Irving) has committed suicide, and Dakota Fanning, as his withdrawn daughter who has a secret friend named Charlie.
Is Charlie an imaginary friend as the child's psychiatrist (Famke Janssen) suspects, or one of a long list of way too obvious candidates? One thing is increasingly obvious. Charlie is deadly dangerous.
The movie is one long, intolerable wait for the viewers, who can hear the gears of the script creaking. Finally in the story's conclusion, an explanation, completely out of left field, surfaces to insult everyone's intelligence. Groan.
HIDE AND SEEK runs 1:42. It is rated R for "frightening sequences and violence" and would be acceptable for teenagers.
The film opens nationwide in the United States on Friday, January 28, 2005. In the Silicon Valley, it will be showing at the AMC theaters, the Century theaters and the Camera Cinemas.
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