The Good Wire (film, 1993)

See also: the Good wire

the Good Wire ( The Good Its ) is an American dramatic film carried out by Joseph Ruben, left in 1993.

Synopsis

Mark, a twelve year old child, has just lost his/her mother, victim of a cancer. His/her father, very occupied, places it in his uncle and his aunt, Evans, an alive middle-class couple in a small village. Mark spends its days in company of his/her Henry cousin. Gradually, Henry takes pleasure to terrorize Mark and to want to make him share his cruel plays.

One morning, using a crossbow, Henry kills a dog under the eyes of Mark. Then, some days later, a serious car accident causes on a highway, by throwing top of a footbridge a scarecrow in the middle of the road. Mark understands that Henry also responsible for died for a baby, drowned in the family bath-tub one year before. Henry then reveals his true nature and his intentions of murder to him…

Data sheet

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  • the film is drawn from a novel has suspense of Todd Strasser

  • the principal goal was to make play Macaulay Culkin only twelve years old in against employment: that of a kid psychopathe.
  • criticism has its exit had the hard tooth with this film showing the realizer to have carried out a series B and not a film has suspense like was the novel. Joseph Ruben had held so that the film is at the same time distressing, psychological and especially tragedy, thus the scene of the end diverted of them more one.

Distribution

  • Macaulay Culkin : Henry Evans
  • Elijah Wood: Mark Evans
  • Wendy Crewson: Susan Evans
  • David Morse: Jack
  • Daniel Hugh Kelly: Wallace Evans
  • Jacqueline Brookes: Alice Davenport
  • Quinn Culkin: Connie Evans
  • Ashley Crow : Janice
  • Guy Strauss: the doctor in Arizona
  • Keith Faced: the doctor with Blackport
  • Jerem Goodwin: the workman
  • Andria Hall: the journalist
  • Susan Hopper: the woman of the rescue

Around film

  • turning was held with Annisquam, Beverly (of which is native David Morse, the actor who interprets Jack), Cape Ann, Marblehead and Rockport, in the Massachusetts, like Palisade Head and Two Harbors, in the Minnesota, and Newington, in the New Hampshire.
  • Following dissensions with the father of Macaulay Culkin, the realizer Michael Lehmann was replaced.
  • At its exit, certain people were shocked to see the actor of Maman, I missed the plane in a film prohibited with less than 12 years.

Distinctions

  • Price of the best performance for a young actor (Elijah Wood) and nomination at the price of best film of horror, by the Academy of science fiction films, fantastic and horror in 1994.
  • Nomination at the price of best malicious for Macaulay Culkin, at the time of the MTV Movie Awards in 1994.

External bonds

  • the Good wire on Internet Movie Database
  • Critical DevilDead

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