(Redirected from A Tale of Two Sisters (2008 film))
The Uninvited | |
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Directed by | The Guard Brothers |
Produced by | Walter F. Parkes Laurie MacDonald Roy Lee |
Screenplay by | Craig Rosenberg Doug Miro Carlo Bernard |
Based on | A Tale of Two Sisters by Kim Jee-woon |
Starring | |
Music by | Christopher Young |
Cinematography | Daniel Landin |
Edited by | Jim Page Christian Wagner |
DreamWorks Pictures Cold Spring Pictures[1] Vertigo Entertainment The Montecito Picture Company Parkes/MacDonald Productions Goldcrest Pictures | |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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87 minutes | |
Country | United States Canada Germany |
Language | English |
Box office | $41.6 million |
The Uninvited is a 2009 American psychological horror film directed by the Guard Brothers and starring Emily Browning, Elizabeth Banks, Arielle Kebbel, and David Strathairn. It is a remake of the 2003 South Korean horror film A Tale of Two Sisters, which is in turn one of several film adaptations of the Korean folk tale Janghwa Hongryeon jeon. The film received mixed reviews.
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Plot[edit]
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Anna Ivers (Emily Browning) has been in a psychiatric institution for 10 months, after her suicide attempt following her terminally-ill mother's death in a boathouse fire. Upon her discharge, she has no memory of the event but frequently has related nightmares. While packing, Anna is startled by a disturbing, talkative patient from the room across the hall. Soon afterward, she leaves with her father, Steven Ivers (David Strathairn), a writer who has dedicated his latest book to Anna and her sister.
At home, Anna reunites with her sister Alex (Arielle Kebbel), to whom she is very close. The sisters oppose Steven's girlfriend Rachel (Elizabeth Banks), who had been their mother's live-in nurse. Alex criticizes Steven for sleeping with Rachel while the girls' mother was still alive and sick in bed but he doesn't respond. Anna describes to Alex how scenes from her dreams have started happening while she is awake. The sisters become convinced that the hallucinations are messages from their mother, telling them that Rachel murdered her.
Anna catches up with her old boyfriend Matt (Jesse Moss), who tells her that he saw what happened the night of the fire. They plan to meet that night, but Matt doesn't show and Anna returns home. Anna awakens in her room to find him climbing into her window, saying that she needs to know the truth and that he had a warning from her mother. They kiss, then his body suddenly warps and his back breaks. She flees from the room in fear, but when she opens the door, he is gone. The next morning his dead body is pulled out of the water; his back is broken. The police assume that he fell and drowned.
The sisters are unable to find a record of Rachel with the State Nursing Association and conclude she is actually Mildred Kemp (Heather Doerksen), a nanny who killed the three children she looked after because she was obsessed with their widowed father. The children are the ones who have been appearing to Anna, trying to warn her. The girls try to warn their father, but he ignores their concerns and leaves for work. The girls try to gather evidence against Rachel to show the police but Rachel catches them and sedates Alex. Anna escapes and goes to the local police station, but they do not believe her claims and call Rachel, who sedates Anna and takes her home.
As Rachel puts a disoriented Anna to bed, Anna sees Alex in the doorway with a knife and passes out. She wakes to find that Alex has killed Rachel and thrown her body into a dumpster. As the girls comfort each other, a horrified Steven arrives and asks what happened. Anna explains that Rachel tried to murder her and her sister but Alex saved their lives by killing Rachel. Steven is confused; he explains that Alex died in the fire along with her mother. Anna then notices that she isn't holding her sister's hand, but the bloody knife used to murder Rachel.
Anna finally remembers what happened on the night of the fire. After catching her father and Rachel having sex, Anna became enraged and filled a watering can from a large gasoline tank in the boathouse, intending to set them and the house on fire. She didn't close the tap properly and a trail of gasoline was ignited by a falling candle. Her mother and Alex were killed in the resulting explosion. It is revealed that Anna has symptoms of both severe schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder. Flashbacks reveal that Anna had been hallucinating Alex since she left the institution. She remembers killing Matt—who did show up at their planned meeting—by letting him fall off the cliff and break his back. She also remembers killing Rachel, who was surprisingly a kinder person than she had imagined.
As the police arrest Anna for murder, an officer questions Steven. He explains that Rachel changed her name years ago to escape an abusive ex-boyfriend.
At the institution, Anna is welcomed back by the patient across the hall who had scared her earlier; the nameplate on her door reads 'Mildred Kemp.'
Cast[edit]
- David Strathairn as Steven Ivers
- Elizabeth Banks as Rachel
- Arielle Kebbel as Alex Ivers
- Emily Browning as Anna Ivers
- Jesse Moss as Matt
- Kevin McNulty as Sheriff Emery
- Don S. Davis as Mr. Henson
- Heather Doerksen as Mildred Kemp
- Maya Massar as Mom
- Lex Burnham as Iris
- Danny Bristol as Samuel
- Matthew Bristol as David
- Dean Paul Gibson as Dr. Silberling
Development[edit]
In 2002, producers Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald produced the hit horror film The Ring, a remake of the Japanese film Ring. They subsequently produced the film's successful sequelThe Ring Two in 2005. Since first starting this new cycle of Asian horror film adaptations, Parkes and MacDonald searched for a project they felt was as ingeniously conceived and executed as The Ring, and finally found it when producer Roy Lee brought the Korean film A Tale of Two Sisters to their attention.
When A Tale of Two Sisters played in US theaters, directors Tom and Charlie Guard had acquired the English language remake rights. The Guard Brothers had previously directed commercials and short films, and wanted to expand into feature films.
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In June 2006, DreamWorks announced that a deal had been set up for the US version of A Tale of Two Sisters. The new film was a presentation of DreamWorks and Cold Spring Pictures (Disturbia), and was produced by Parkes, MacDonald and Lee. The screenplay was written by Craig Rosenberg (After the Sunset, Lost), Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard (The Great Raid).[2]
In early 2008, the film, whose working title had been A Tale of Two Sisters, was renamed to The Uninvited.[3]
The film was released in North American theaters on January 30, 2009.
Shooting location[edit]
Although the film is set in Maine, it was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia. Most of the film was shot at one location, a waterfront property on British Columbia's Bowen Island, a short ferry ride west from mainland Vancouver.
Producer Walter F. Parkes said, of the shooting location:
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“ | Eighty percent of the story takes place at the house, so we couldn't make the movie without the right one. It couldn't have been more important. We scouted Louisiana, an environment which is both beautiful and slightly threatening. We had two houses which were terrible compromises, but both of them fell through. We had a difficult time finding anything that had both the connection to the story and the right logistical possibilities. But then we were lucky to find in Canada a place that seemed as if it had been built for our movie. It was perfectly evocative and suggestive of a family that is both welcoming and forbidding. The fact that the house was within 30 miles of Vancouver was a greater plus than the minus of having to get everyone on boats to get them over there; water taxis and ferries are a way of life up there. In fact, I don’t remember ever having a more pleasant time on a location. Getting onto a boat and having a cup of coffee and then going up the little pier and the stairs we built, it focused us. We were isolated with one thing on our minds, which was making this movie. It was great.[4] | ” |
It is reported that a two-story boathouse in the film was built on the property overlooking the water just for several scenes. The cold water is rough and unappealing; it is a greenish-gray that crashes constantly and does not invite swimming.[5]
Casting[edit]
Emily Browning was hired to portray the lead Anna Ivers. She had originally auditioned for the role of Alex. The film is rated PG-13, and is visually less gory and bloody than the original film.[5]Elizabeth Banks plays the role of the stepmother, Rachel.[6] Banks based her character Rachel on Rebecca De Mornay in The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.[7] 'It was very important to me that every line reading I gave could be interpreted two ways,' says Banks of her role, 'so that when you go back through the movie you can see that.'[7]David Strathairn plays the concerned father of the two girls.[8]Arielle Kebbel plays Anna's older sister, Alex Ivers.[9]
Music[edit]
The original score for the film was composed by Christopher Young, who recorded it with a 78-piece orchestra and 20-person choir. His score features a glass harmonica, and the Yale Women's Slavic Chorus.[10]
Reception[edit]
Critical reception[edit]
Rotten Tomatoes reported that 31% out of 128 surveyed critics gave favorable reviews, with an average rating of 4.5/10. The site's critics consensus reads, 'The Uninvited is moody and reasonably involving, but suffers from predictable plot twists.'[11]Metacritic assigned a weighted average score of 43 out of 100 based on 24 reviews, which indicates 'mixed or average' reception.[12]Bloody Disgusting gave the film 6/10.[13] In Yahoo! Movies Critical Response, the average professional critical rating was a C according to 11 reviews.[14]
Box office[edit]
On its opening day, the film grossed $4,335,000 and ranked #2 in the box office.[15]It got $10,512,000 for its opening weekend, set on the third place, opened in 2,344 theaters with an average $4,485 per theatre.[16]The film spent nine weeks in US cinemas, and finished with a total gross of $28,596,818. It did fairly moderately for a horror film in the US markets.[17]The film was released on March 26, 2009, in Australia, and it opened at the fifth position, averaging $3,998 at 121 sites, for a gross of A$483,714. The second week it dipped 29%.
References[edit]
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- ^Brad Miska (June 22, 2007). 'David Strathairn Stars Opposite Banks in 'Two Sisters' Remake Archived 2008-12-04 at the Wayback Machine.' Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved on January 18, 2009.
- ^Arieanna Schweber (December 30, 2008). 'Arielle Kebbel in “The Uninvited” .' Gilmore Girl news. Retrieved on January 18, 2009. Archived January 8, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^Goldwasser, Dan (June 3, 2008). 'Christopher Young scores the horror film The Uninvited'. ScoringSessions.com. Retrieved June 3, 2008.
- ^'The Uninvited (2009)'. Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
- ^'The Uninvited Reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
- ^'The Uninvited (A Tale of Two Sisters remake): Review'. Bloody Disgusting. Archived from the original on February 2, 2009. Retrieved February 2, 2009.
- ^'The Uninvited (2009): Reviews'. Yahoo! Movies. Retrieved February 2, 2009.
- ^'Daily Box Office for Friday, January 30, 2009'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved February 2, 2009.
- ^'Weekend Box Office Results from January 30 – February 1, 2009'. Box Office Mojo. February 2, 2009. Retrieved February 2, 2009.
- ^'The Uninvited (2009) – Daily Box Office Results'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved November 26, 2010.
External links[edit]
- The Uninvited on IMDb
- The Uninvited at AllMovie
- The Uninvited at Box Office Mojo
- The Uninvited at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Uninvited at Metacritic
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