Hide and Seek

Name: Hide and Seek
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Released: January 28, 2005
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 35
Cast: Amy Irving, Dakota Fanning, David Chandler, Dylan Baker, Elisabeth Shue

2005

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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 34 Critic Reviews

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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: January 28, 2005 | R

Starring: Amy Irving, Dakota Fanning, David Chandler, Dylan Baker, Elisabeth Shue, Famke Janssen, Melissa Leo, Molly Grant Kallins, Robert De Niro, Robert John Burke

Summary: A widower (Robert DeNiro) suspects his 9 year-old daughter (Dakota Fanning) has come up with an unexpected way of dealing with her mother's death through a terrifying "imaginary" friend.

Director: John Polson

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 101 min

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Michael Wilmington

Surprises with its intensity and grip. Read full review

Roger Ebert

It's not technically true to say the movie cheats, but let's say it abandons the truth and depth of its earlier scenes. Read full review

Chuck Wilson

While the final revelation is laughably absurd, DeNiro and Fanning are so far inside their roles that one can't giggle for long. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

The film's last 20 minutes devolve into a tedious slog through the kind of pointless, predictable running and screaming that give horror movies a bad name. Read full review

Mike Clark

There's not a cliché that isn't nailed. Read full review

Nathan Rabin

Like far too many junky post-"Sixth Sense" thrillers, Hide And Seek essentially exists for the sake of its third-act plot twist, but the climactic revelation merely pushes it from bad to worse. Read full review

Jessica Winter

Hide and Seek follows no semblance of internal logic--the unveiling of Charlie is a ludicrous cheat, the last reel a unique paroxysm of rancid idiocy. Read full review

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Alex

Mar 29, 2010

I thought the movie was well done I don't know what the critics are saying very good twist and it made me jump go watch it if you love thrillers.

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Sep 11, 2021

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Rialto

Aug 12, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Great psychological thriller and what the drawing meant
at the end. This thriller scared the daylights out of me. I loved it and the ride was so intense I thought I'd burst at the end of the movie. I never saw it coming, never predicted who or what Charlie was about--and was shocked. I LOVE IT! I love it when a movie sneaks up on me.

Its great and I would wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone who wants a good psychological thriller. Dakota Fanning was wonderful and shows great promise as an awesome actress. What can I saw about DeNiro--he delivers in spades (?) and never lets you down. I found myself gripping my fiancé at times and almost burying my head when I knew something scary was about to happen. I would have never predicted what the truth was and it was right there all the time. I loved this movie, will see it again, and buy it when its out on DVD. What a great and awesome piece of work. I am so glad I went. Go, you won't regret it. Oh and in case you don't know about the ending. The little girl was letting us know SHE HAS ANOTHER PERSONALITY. Just like daddy had Charlie, she too, has another personality! Prepare ye for part 2. Lorrie… Expand

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BrianK.

Sep 18, 2005

Ethan, don't worry what Sam says about you never being a friend of Dakota's. Dakota is very open to her fans. In one rare moment, I was able to visit with her for 25 minutes before she had to leave. I even got a hug out of it at the end, which she gave without hesitation. Anyway, Ethan, don't worry what Sam says about you never being a friend of Dakota's. Dakota is very open to her fans. In one rare moment, I was able to visit with her for 25 minutes before she had to leave. I even got a hug out of it at the end, which she gave without hesitation. Anyway, I only saw the movie because Dakota was in it. Yes, the plot is borrowed, yes the story is weak in some areas, but Fanning is nothing less than hypnotic--pure magic.… Expand

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MarkB.

Sep 7, 2005

Little Dakota Fanning has got to be not only the most well-adjusted child actress in Hollywood history, but the most emotionally healthy and stable youngster in America PERIOD. Not only did she spend 90% of her screen time in War of the Worlds screaming at and running from Martians, but Little Dakota Fanning has got to be not only the most well-adjusted child actress in Hollywood history, but the most emotionally healthy and stable youngster in America PERIOD. Not only did she spend 90% of her screen time in War of the Worlds screaming at and running from Martians, but earlier this year was dealing with parental death, psychotic imaginary playmates and 87 other varieties of childhood trauma (to say nothing of having to look and dress like The Addams Family's Wednesday, only with brown sweaters instead of black dresses) in this derivative, mean-spirited horror movie frrom the director of Swimfan. (I'm sure Orson Welles never had a #1 box office weekend as a director, but this hack gets two different ones. Is there no justice in this world or what?) The usual array of pseudo-ominous tracking shots and cheeseball false alarms is made even more predictable by the fact that two of Robert DeNiro's lovely, talented costars, Elisabeth Shue and Amy Irving, are former Oscar nominees who've clearly seen better days, which gives you an idea of the thanklessness of their roles AND the relative length of their screen time. (Melissa Leo, of TV's acclaimed Homicide: Life on the Streets, also turns up, giving a performance that's both creepy and touching...and way too good for this.) Chances are you'll alternate yor viewing time between exclamations of "Man, those filmmakers are sick puppies!" and "Just how stupid do they think we are?" A couple of rather original jolts (such as Dakota's flip-movie book) make this vaguely better than DeNiro's last horror outing, the rock-bottom Godsend...but that's like saying that sawing your thumb and forefinger off in a workshop accident is preferable to losing your whole hand. And by the way, remember when DeNiro's appearance in a non-Scorsese film was a virtual guarantee that you were STILL going to see something terrific--be it an ambitious epic like The Mission, a guest turn in The Untouchables or even a purely commercial action-comedy like Midnight Run? The (hopefully not) late, lamented IFC game show Ultimate Film fanatic had a trivia category last year entitled "DeNiro: The Sellout Years"; if the writers of that category had known at the time of this and Godsend, they might well have altered the title to "DeNiro: The Whorehouse Years"!… Expand

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