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- 1966
- Approved
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 46 m
- 1966
- Approved
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 46 m
Summary Want out of your life? Just pay the fee and we'll fake your death, change your face, and set up a new identity for you.
Directed By: John Frankenheimer
Written By: Lewis John Carlino, David Ely
- 1966
- Approved
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 46 m
- 1966
- Approved
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 46 m
Seconds
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7.4
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Summary Want out of your life? Just pay the fee and we'll fake your death, change your face, and set up a new identity for you.
Directed By: John Frankenheimer
Written By: Lewis John Carlino, David Ely
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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71% Positive
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29% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
71
71% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
29% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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The film features a surprisingly good performance by Rock Hudson, an impeccable supporting cast and stunning cinematography by screen veteran James Wong Howe.
This cult movie for the ages suggests a Twilight Zone episode taken to gruesome extremes. [09 May 1997, p.3D]
Frankenheimer’s 1966 riff on identity (and lack thereof) and corporate paranoia is one of his most unnerving, claustrophobic and entertaining efforts.
Seconds is certainly a flawed film, and it's easy to see why it flopped during its initial release: It's a relentlessly depressing, claustrophobic movie that offers no sense of catharsis whatsoever. Nevertheless, it's strangely touching, and as a portrayal of identity and alienation in suburban America, it's about a hundred times as creepy and sincere as David Lynch's thematically similar Lost Highway.
Saul Bass' unsettling title sequence sets the scene for the concise articulation of fifty-something bourgeois despair, as visualised by James Wong Howe's distorting camerawork and the edgy discord of Jerry Goldsmith's excoriating score.
Seconds has moments, and that's too bad, in a way. But for its soft and flabby midsection, it might have been one of the trimmest shockers of the year.
The screenplay (by Lewis John Carlino, of The Great Santini) collapses into musty moralizing in the second half, and director John Frankenheimer throws in the towel.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 User Ratings
7.4
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 User Ratings
7.4
60% Positive
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
National Film Preservation Board, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
