Despite the unsuccessful playdate, David and Elizabeth hit it off.
After Amy runs out of the house, Emily tells David that she doesn't need any more friends. Amy is anxious to become friends immediately, but the playdate is spoiled when Emily cuts up Amy's doll's face. Hoping to cultivate a new, healthy friendship for Emily, David sets up a playdate for her. David meets local woman, named Elizabeth (Elisabeth Shue) and her niece, Amy, who is roughly the same age as Emily. Later, when David visits the woman, she nervously and ambiguously implies that her husband has begun abusing her in response to their child's death, emotionally and perhaps even physically. He later discovers that the reason for this is that the couple had a daughter who recently died from cancer and looks like Emily. David is wary of their unusual interest in Emily. Soon, they meet a man and a woman who are their neighbors. When a family friend, named Katherine (Famke Janssen), comes to visit David and Emily, Emily reveals that she and Charlie have a mutual desire to upset her father. Meanwhile, David suffers from nightmares of the New Year's Eve party that occurred the night before his wife died. Her friendship with Charlie begins to disturb David when he discovers their cat dead in the bathtub, whom Emily claims was a victim of "Charlie". There, Emily makes an apparently imaginary friend she calls "Charlie". David Callaway (Robert De Niro), a psychologist working in New York City, decides to move with his 10-year-old daughter Emily (Dakota Fanning) to upstate New York. Following his discovery of the body of his wife in a bathtub after her suicide, Dr.It’s the “until it isn’t” that earns it the label, “disappointing.The synopsis below may give away important plot points. It’s short, well-acted and easy enough to follow until it isn’t. This “Hide and Seek” isn’t hatefully bad. A couple of interesting performances are similarly squandered. But he squanders that attention with a story that doesn’t play fair or logically add up. Writer-director Joel David Moore, an actor in the “Avatar” franchise, has no problem getting our attention with the mystery. But in a building littered with crazy, who can it be? We saw the helmet kill a young renting “squatter” ( Alejandra Rivera) in the first scene. The wife and kids, his employees? They don’t seem to notice the guy is off his rocker.Īnd as Noah’s nightmares about the sinister motorcycle-helmet turn real, other threats from that condemned building manifest themselves in more beatings and a deeper puzzle. Rhys Meyers goes properly wild-eyed for this performance, playing a buttoned-down man who snaps and turns manic. OCD Fastidious finds himself haggling with an informal slumlord ( Mustafa Shakir), his phone snatched by an urchin whose mother ( Sue Jean Kim) is convinced the missing Jacob was some sort of pervert, and then mugged by a homeless guy.īefore this mystery is unraveled, neat-freak Noah will be crawling through ruined crawl spaces, seeing this mysterious, helmeted menace everywhere and certain that its Jacob demanding his share. Noah follows directions to the condemned flophouse where brother “Jacob” was last seen. The last thing a guy like that needs, with this new responsibility just added to his portfolio, is hearing from his “fixer” lawyer ( Joe Pantoliano) that his estranged and apparently-disturbed brother has returned to the city, perhaps to make trouble over the will. The over-organized refrigerator, fastidious grooming and a tendency to scrub his hands with a psychotic vigor make us wonder about Noah, and diagnose him as “OCD” on the spot. Noah lives in the penthouse with his wife ( Jacinda Barrett) and two kids. It’s about a hotelier ( Jonathan Rhys Meyers) who just inherited dad’s tony Grand Parkmore Hotel in Manhattan. The pieces don’t fit as neatly as they did in Jung Huh’s original, and that spoils the effect. The plot twist is familiar when it turns up again in actor-turned-director Joel David Moore’s remake.īut even with all that information, even re-watching the picture’s last third to see if I’d missed something, it’s hard to make sense of the remake’s finale. I have a faint recollection of seeing the Korean thriller “Hide and Seek” several years back.
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