This fabulous ensemble thriller is a horror film for 21st century parents, with kids (and adults) getting into deep trouble online. The powerful cast is headed by Jason Bateman (most recently in these pages in Horrible Bosses) playing it straight, and includes Hope Davis (my favorites include The Myth of Fingerprints (1997), Next Stop Wonderland (1998), Mumford (1999), About Schmidt (2002), The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002), American Splendor (2003), Duma (2005), Proof (2005), The Weather Man (2005), Infamous (2006), Charlie Bartlett (2007), and the 2011 mini-series Mildred Pierce), Frank Grillo (handsome and square-jawed, he's been in many things and starred in none that I know of), Michael Nyqvist (last in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol), Paula Patton (ditto), Andrea Riseborough (Made in Dagenham) abandoning her native English accent, Alexander Skarsgård (What Maisie Knew), and teenagers Max Theriot (Chloe), Colin Ford (We Bought a Zoo), and Jonah Bobo (Steve Carell's son in Crazy, Stupid, Love.).
Director Henry Alex Rubin was Oscar-nominated for Murderball (2005), which you must see immediately--it's a documentary about wheelchair rugby--and this is his feature debut. Screenwriter Andrew Stern collaborated on a TV movie and the script for the soapy but good Return to Me (2000).
The excellent music by Max Richter (last in Lore) can be sampled on this amazon page and here's a list of songs, two of which are credited to him.
Rottentomatoes' critics have been lukewarm, averaging 65 to its audiences' 81 (down a few points since we saw it in late May). I'm not the first to compare it to Crash, nor will I be the last. We recommend saving it to your netflix queue, as the DVD release date hasn't been set.
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