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Panic Room

Panic Room

It was supposed to be the safest room in the house.

29 March 2002 6.8EN111 min
Thriller
Trapped in their New York brownstone's 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. But the...
Budget: $48,000,000Box Office: $197,100,000
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John Chard@John Chard
★★★★☆ 8.0
The movie this is the film, in spite of the oppressive nature of the story, never sits still either. The real winner in that department is Jodie Foster's Meg Altman, it would have been easy for the character to be ground out as some super heroine, with death defying feats of courage masking her out as wonder woman, but Fincher has her pure and simply as a resourceful human being. …
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Paul Scott
The 6.8 rating feels about right. I'll be watching this again, guaranteed.
John Chard
The movie this is the film, in spite of the oppressive nature of the story, never sits still either. The action kicks in from the off and through a series of devilish stunts, it continues through to the pulse raising finale. Subsequent revisits to the film reveal it to be a tightly constructed figure piece, in what is practically a five persona story.
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