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  • 2009
  • R
  • Stage 6 Films
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2009
  • R
  • Stage 6 Films
  • 1 h 35 m

Summary The Lodger follows a seasoned detective on the trail of a ruthless killer intent on slaughtering prostitutes along West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. It appears that the murderer's grisly methods are identical to that of London's infamous 19th century psychopath Jack the Ripper - a relentless serial killer who was never caught by police. To ...

Directed By: David Ondaatje

Written By: Marie Belloc Lowndes, David Ondaatje

  • 2009
  • R
  • Stage 6 Films
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2009
  • R
  • Stage 6 Films
  • 1 h 35 m

The Lodger

Metascore Overwhelming Dislike Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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User Score Mixed or Average Based on 13 User Ratings
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Summary The Lodger follows a seasoned detective on the trail of a ruthless killer intent on slaughtering prostitutes along West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. It appears that the murderer's grisly methods are identical to that of London's infamous 19th century psychopath Jack the Ripper - a relentless serial killer who was never caught by police. To ...

Directed By: David Ondaatje

Written By: Marie Belloc Lowndes, David Ondaatje

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Overwhelming Dislike Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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It takes guts to remake what many believe to be Hitchcock's first masterpiece, but what Ondaatje's done with The Lodger could not be mistaken for ambition.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
30
The biggest mystery, perhaps, is why accomplished actors such as Molina and Hope Davis agreed to be in this.
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What needed to be a taut, structurally sound psychothriller instead malfunctions from the start.
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25
A good cast can't save The Lodger, the utterly wrongheaded fourth movie version of a 1910 novel inspired by Jack the Ripper.
By Lou Lumenick FULL REVIEW
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Prostitutes are not the only things butchered in The Lodger, a spooky story ruined by lumpen dialogue, cloddish performances and a director and writer (David Ondaatje) oblivious to both.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
20
Nodding, winking, and sighing, The Lodger lumbers its way to a final twist so anticlimactic and silly as to warrant an incredulous titter.
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Filled with second-rate Brian DePalma twists, noirishly blurred lights and usually solid actors mouthing potboiler brine, The Lodger resembles bottom-shelf '80s dreck.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW

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38% Negative
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Production Company Merchant Pacific Corporation, Michael Mailer Films
Release Date Jan 23, 2009
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating R
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Tagline Everyone Is Suspect
Website https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/thelodger
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Awards

Casting Society of America, USA
• 1 Nomination

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