5ive Days to Midnight
by Michael W. Watkins
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Actor: Angus Macfadyen, Hamish Linklater, Kari Matchett, Randy Quaid, Timothy HuttonDirector: Michael W. Watkins
Brand: HUTTON,TIMOTHY
Producer: Anthony Peckham
Writer: Anthony Peckham
Producer: Corey Sienega
Producer: David Aaron Cohen
Writer: David Aaron Cohen
Writer: Cindy Myers
Writer: Robert Zappia
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 255 minutes
Published: 2004-10-01
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-12
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Lionsgate
Product features:
- DVD Details: Actors: Timothy Hutton, Randy Quaid, Kari Matchett, Hamish Linklater, Angus Macfadyen
- Directors: Michael W. Watkins
- Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC. Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1; Number of discs: 2; Studio: Lions Gate
- DVD Release Date: October 12, 2004; Run Time: 255 minutes
Movie Reviews of 5ive Days to Midnight
Movie Review: Dark Allegory
Summary: 5 Stars
5IVE DAYS TO MIDNIGHT is one of my favorite TV miniseries. Like ROOTS or HOLOCAUST it is best seen on TV, with the days spread apart, so that you can build up some excitement about seeing the next part, but on DVD you can kind of glom everything together; indeed you don't even have to watch the show in order--*though I would highly advise it.* If you don't, the story is too confusing.
On SciFi you'd be watching "Monday's" episode on a Monday; it was cleverly done and you couldn't wait till Tuesday! Tim Hutton isn't my favorite actor, but he did a fine job in this as the doomed professor. And fun to see him with Kari Matchett as the two co-stars of NERO WOLFE are matchless together. Watching Hutton break into the briefcase and find his obituary was chilling and you wanted to think that there must be some mistake, some loophole, some way in which he could survive the next five days. I was thinking, well, he has the same name as his daughter (I mean the same initials, her name is Jesse) maybe the daughter is the one who is going to die? She was only ten or so, but because the story is all about time travel it was easy to think, maybe she grew up and became a professor like her dad? And that is whom the briefcase was addressed to! The one in the car from PULP FICTION! The show also references the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, which also occurred ten years prior to the events of 5IVE DAYS TO MIDNIGHT, making you think a little bit, your restless brain searching for some solution, some tie up, of history's loose threads.
In a way the briefcase reminded me of the famous attache case in PULP FICTION, said to contain someone's soul-remember that? Ten years ago, so right around the birth of little Jesse? Lovely Nicole De Boer is in the movie too, from CUBE, and STAR TREK ENTERPRISE, she's a regular SciFi channel regular. You may not know who she is from her name, but once you see her face it's an assurance that the quality science fiction product you are watching was filmed in Canada.
Randy Quaid is pretty good, although I found myself wondering why the producers couldn't have found someone who mumbled less. I could barely make out what he was saying half the time as "Irwin" launched into one topic after another. He was pretty much the most important character in the story, too, as the man charged with figuring out the solution to the homicide. If you've seen the classic noir thriller D.O.A., with Edmond O'Brien, you've already anticipated much of what is interesting about this miniseries. Remade later in the 1980s with Dennis Quaid, Randy's brother, as the dead man walking, D.O.A. similarly opened with a man reading his own death sentence.
Summary of 5ive Days to Midnight
No Description Available.Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: UN
Release Date: 19-AUG-2005
Media Type: DVD
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