The Return (Widescreen Edition)
by Asif Kapadia
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Actor: Adam Scott, J.C. Mackenzie, Kate Beahan, Sam Shepard, Sarah Michelle GellarDirector: Asif Kapadia
Brand: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-02-27
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of The Return (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: A Thoughtful Horror Story
Summary: 4 Stars
Having seen this movie twice on HBO, I think I can make a fair assessment on it.
This is not a typical horror movie. It is a drama with supernatural elements. And as such, it succeeds admirably.
Think of it as going out on a dark night alone then hearing, in the distance, a long mournful wail. It frightens but at the same time, one detects great sadness in the sound.
I'll leave it to others to describe the plot. I will add that Sarah Michelle Gellar delivers a powerful performance. It is miles far away from the perkiness of Buffy.
Summary of The Return (Widescreen Edition)
A new supernatural thriller starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as Joanna Mills a tough young Midwesterner determined to learn the truth behind the increasingly terrifying supernatural visions that have been haunting her.Joanna has made a successful career for herself as sales representative for a trucking company. But her private life has been difficult; estranged from her father (Sam Shepard) stalked by an obsessed ex-boyfriend (Adam Scott) and with few friends Joanna fears that she is losing control.She sees and feels the brutal murder of a young woman she s never met at the hands of a heartless killer a man who appears to be making Joanna his next target. Determined to fight back Joanna is guided by her nightmares to the murdered woman s hometown.Once there she will discover that some secrets can t be buried; some spirits never die; and that the murder she is trying to solve may be her own.System Requirements:Run Time: 146 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS Rating:?PG - 13 UPC:?025192867620 Manufacturer No:?62028676The Return is a drowsy, mildly creepy and unexpectedly well-crafted supernatural thriller that lays off the cheap thrill and gore factor in favor of the slow build up to fright and a twist ending that, while effective, may hit viewers as mostly out of left field. The Sixth Sense it ain't, but there's enough texture, style and ladled-on art direction to keep the eeriness palpable even through some of the more labored dialogue and plot contrivances. A chocolate-haired Sarah Michelle Gellar (what was wrong with her natural goldilocks?) plays Joanna Mills, some sort of traveling sales rep in a big pickup truck who journeys from her nightmare-disturbed life in St. Louis back to a small town in Texas that she sort-of remembers. Demons from the girlhood she once knew there come fiendishly together in a mishmash of flashbacks and present-day creep-outs involving murder, self-mutilation and spirits that have haunted her more than she knows. Gellar has become a go-to for glossy Hollywood horrorshows like this, thanks to her work in the Grudge franchise and the remnants of our memories from her Buffy glory days. In spite of the handful of slipshod faults in story and directorial force, she holds her own against the vibrantly dilapidated set decorations along with a variety of other equally important characters. There's a creepy ex-boyfriend, a disgusting being stalking a phantom woman she recognizes from her psychosis-induced visions, and a hunky guy who's facing down mysteries from his own past. (Do they all intersect? Hmmm...) She even stands her ground against Sam Shepard, who is all but slumming it in his few scenes as her dad. He talks about an incident that forever changed her when she was 11 years old, but his weird allusions are as enigmatic as the film itself, which desperately wants to be better than it is. But The Return still carries its share of respectable fears that are made scarier by the effectively edited string of spooky noises and images. Together they add up to make a worthy entrant in the genre of understated ghost story. --Ted Fry
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