Ho avuto il piacere di rivedere quel piccolo classico piuttosto sottovalutato di
The Hole.
Con la necessità di sfuggire ad una noiosa gita del college da un lato e dai genitori dall'altro, quattro figli di papà si affidano ad un ingegnoso studente che propone loro una singolare soluzione: chiudersi per tre giorni in un bunker antiatomico in disuso.
Scenario idea per la più o meno sfigata
Liz, che spera di sfruttare l'occasione per fare colpo su
Mike, affascinante figlio di una rock-star.
Piccolo dettaglio: la porta è chiusa dall'esterno, ed il terzo giorno nessuno verrà.
Il film si apre (in maniera notevole) su cosa succede all'apertura del bunker, e da lì in avanti si procede per gradi svelando gli eventi attraverso il racconto dei coinvolti.
Come tutto sommato prevedibile, si scoprirà che le cose sono più complicate di quanto non sembrasse inizialmente (grazie al cielo, però, non si eccede in colpi di scena e stravolgimenti della prospettiva, come ogni tanto succede).
Breve quanto basta per tenere sempre alto l'interesse, con dei bei personaggi anche ben interpretati, ha il notevole merito di non essere il solito horror che punta tutto su schifezza e rumori assordanti come ne sono stati prodotti a migliaia negli ultimi 15 anni.
Bravo e claustrofobico quanto basta
Nick Hamm alla regia (che non si è più ripetuto, mi pare), fa sempre piacere rivedere
Thora Birch e - come da horror che si rispetti - abbiamo pure una giovane
Keira Knightley che mostra le tettine semi-anoressiche.
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Voto: 8.
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Hamm, Nick
Data di nascita: 1957
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:Nick Hamm, (Theatre and Film Director) was resident director with the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1983 to 1988. He has directed major productions in Europe and served as British Artistic Director of the Sadler's Wells Theatre Company. In 1989 he moved into television/ film, directing The Bottom Line, a documentary about the crisis of culture, featuring, among others, Arthur Miller and Dustin Hoffman. In 1992, his 30-minute drama The Harmfulness of Tobacco, starring Edward Fox and Celia Imrie, won the BAFTA Award (British Association of Film and Television Awards) for Best Short Film. He went on to direct Play on One for the BBC starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Colin Firth. Followed by the highly acclaimed series Rik Mayall Presents for Granada, starring Amanda Donohoe, Jennifer Ehle and Helena Bonham Carter. Hamm's feature work includes films for Miramax, Pathe, Film Four and Lions Gate. His first feature, Talk of Angels, an epic love story set against the background of the Spanish Civil War starred Vincent Perez and Polly Walker and was made for Miramax. His second was a romantic comedy for Film Four/ Miramax. Martha Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence starred Monica Potter and Joseph Fiennes. The film was re-titled for its US release to The Very Thought Of You. His third feature was the highly original European cult movie The Hole starring Thora Birch and Keira Knightley. This movie was originally made for Pathe Films and picked up for US distribution by Miramax. Godsend starring Robert De Niro, Greg Kinnear, and Rebecca Romijn Stamos is Hamm's first US film, made for Lions Gate Films and premiering in in April 2004. Godsend opened in the UK in July 2004 and was distributed by Pathe.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Hole, The (2001)
Regista: Nick Hamm Scrittore: Guy Burt,
Ben Court Genere: Drama, Mystery, Horror, Thriller, Crime
Valutazione: 6.3/10 (15356 voti)
Durata: 102 min
Paese: UK
Lingua: English
Cast:Trama:One misty morning, Liz Dunn stumbles down the road to her school and screams for help. A police psychologist gets her to reveal her story: A month earlier: three rebellious teenagers - Mike, Frankie and Geoff are trying to ditch the school field trip to Wales. The school nerd Martin helps them out by allowing them to stay in an old war bunker for the three days on the condition that his friend Liz joins them. The teens go down, party and have great fun but Martin doesn't return to let them out and they hope and pray that someone will find them...
Citazione random: Mike: And then there's all those exciting exams to look forward to.
Frankie: Way to look on the positive side.
Mike: No, no, no. I've got a hard-on for these exams, they're great.
Geoff: You've got a hard-on for everything.
Mike: Not for you, mate.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Knightley, Keira
Nome di battesimo: Knightley, Keira Christina
Data di nascita: 26 March 1985
Altezza: 5' 7" (1.70 m)
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:The daughter of actor Will Knightley and playwright Sharman Macdonald. After she requested an agent at the age of three, her parents allowed her to work on productions in her summer holidays. Her first role was at the age of 9, in Moira Armstrong's A Village Affair (1995) (TV). However, Knightley's first high profile role came in 1999, as Sabe, Decoy Queen to Natalie Portman's Queen Amidala in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). Since then she has completed an impressive array of films including The Hole (2001), but is probably best known for her role of tomboy footballer Jules Paxton in Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham (2002).
Trivia random: Voted #15 in the AfterEllen Hot 100, a list of the hottest women in entertainment as voted by lesbian and bisexual women (June 2007).
Citazione random: I don't think about nutrition. The very thought of a diet makes me want chips and ice cream. And I just hate going to the gym. I cannot stand it.
Salario massimo: $5,000,000, per Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Birch, Thora
Data di nascita: 11 March 1982
Altezza: 5' 4" (1.63 m)
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:From Monkey Trouble (1994) to American Beauty (1999)-- that's Hollywood "Hocus Pocus"! Thora Birch was born on Thursday (as in Thor's Day) March 11, 1982. Her father Jack, and mom Carol, named her after the Norse God Thor ("Thora" being the feminine), the God of thunder; she has a younger brother named Bolt. Thora appeared in one of the "classic" California raisin commercials in 1986 (at age 4), and later did other commercials. At age 6, Thora appeared in Purple People Eater (1988) and won a Youth in Film Award for her performance. Then she appeared in the television series "Parenthood" (1990), which co-starred a not-yet-discovered Leonardo DiCaprio. Thora's breakout movie was Paradise (1991) with bona fide stars Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith; Thora bested 4,000 young hopefuls to land the role, and she again got great reviews. Thora appeared in Hocus Pocus (1993) with major stars; however, she got real recognition by having a starring role in Monkey Trouble (1994), in which her affection for her pet (and sometimes scene-stealing) monkey basically carried the entire movie (she and the monkey did their own stunts). All grown up, this petite beauty (5' 4") with green eyes had a major role in American Beauty (1999) which won 5 Oscar awards. Thora delivered a strong, effective performance as the alienated daughter of parents whose mid-life crises drive them to affairs and destruction; her acting was convincing and inspired, and once again received good reviews. A down-to-earth young woman in real life, she loves Italian food and diet root beer.
Trivia random: Appeared in Moby's video "We Are All Made Of Stars" (2002) and "Eat You Alive" by Limp Bizkit (2003).
Citazione random: "For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts."
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb. 
