Fracture (Full Screen Edition)
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Actor: Anthony Hopkins, David Strathairn, Embeth Davidtz, Rosamund Pike, Ryan GoslingBrand: NEW LINE HOME VIDEO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-08-14
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video
Movie Reviews of Fracture (Full Screen Edition)
Movie Review: "Your Flaw is That You Are a Winner."
Summary: 5 Stars
"Even a broken clock is right, twice a day." Such are the zingers that Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins) tosses at Willy Beachum, very young deputy D.A. This movie is a brilliant psychological thriller. Ted is convinced that he has executed the perfect crime. He readily confesses to shooting his wife, who he has caught in an affair. He is convinced his confession will be thrown out on technicalities. He is so convinced that he even attempts to serve as his own counsel for the trial. The person that he has caught his wife with adds even more intrigue to the movie, and he makes sure the person is there when the body is discovered so that he can see the look of anguish on the guy's face. The wife is not dead, however, and on life support in a coma. The young prosecutor knows he is losing badly and spends hours at her bedside hoping to revive her so she can name the shooter. Ted loves the game of cat and mouse with the young attorney, and feels that Willy is so cocky, he will trap himself up. The finale of the movie is worth the wait. Ted is so diabolically clever at every turn, covering all of the bases, but there are two little details he has forgotten. One concerns the double jeaopardy clause, and the other is in underestimating Willy's abilities. The movie is wonderful, but even more enjoyable with some fava beans and a little Chianti.
Summary of Fracture (Full Screen Edition)
Academy Award® winner Anthony Hopkins and Academy Award® nominee Ryan Gosling are brilliant in this "exceptionally suspenseful nail-biter" (Rex Reed) that's so smart it "doesn't let go, even after the final twist" (Gene Shalit, "Today"). Ted Crawford (Hopkins) brutally murders his wife and calmly waits for the police to arrest him. With the weapon and a signed confession in hand, Deputy D.A., Willy Beachum (Gosling), believes a conviction is a slam dunk; that is until the case completely unravels. Now, with little evidence, Beachum goes head to head with the cunning Mr. Crawford in a desperate search for the truth and the answer to one burning question: How is this guy getting away with murder?Anthony Hopkins plays a brilliant, pathologically serene killer outwitting the good guys at every turn and taking a shine to a twentysomething law enforcer who can?t conceal a rural accent and rugged origins. Could it be...? No, not The Silence of the Lambs, but an original mystery, Fracture, which plays a little like Lambs as an episode of Columbo, minus Columbo. Which means the film tells us from the get-go that Hopkins? character, a wealthy engineer, shoots his philandering wife (Embeth Davidtz) and leaves her in a vegetative state. From there, it should be a simple matter for young, assistant District Attorney Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling) to nail Crawford, who provides a full confession and even eschews counsel. That?s good for Beachum, a slick winner with a vague background of deprivation, rapidly on his way out of public service after attracting the attention of a deep-pocket, private firm. What he doesn?t know, however, is that Crawford has masterminded more than vengeance against his wife, and that the state?s case against him is full of pre-arranged holes and a huge time-bomb that will send Beachum scrambling to keep the pieces together.
The story, conceived and co-scripted by Daniel Pyne (Doc Hollywood), goes down easily with a minimum of blood and violence, and should easily appeal to mystery buffs as well as old fans of Hopkins and new admirers of Oscar nominee Gosling (Half Nelson). The latter holds his own in multiple, two-character scenes with the masterful portrayer of Hannibal Lecter, pacing Beachum?s reactions to Crawford?s polite provocations so everything spills onto his youthful face: torn loyalties, confusion, gullibility. Director Gregory Hoblit (Hart?s War), still best-known for decades of distinguished television work (NYPD Blue), brings the necessary intimacy to make the stars? chemistry work effectively. His noirish atmosphere is a little over the top, sometimes pushing the audience to a level of expectation that the film isn?t really ready to deliver, but this, overall, is an enjoyable work. --Tom Keogh
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