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The Box
Director: Richard Kelly
Release Date: November 6, 2009
Starring: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella, Gillian Jacobs
Language: English
Country: United States
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The Box is a horror film based on the 1970 short story “Button, Button” by Richard Matheson, which was previously adapted into an episode of the 1980s incarnation of the The Twilight Zone. The film is written and directed by Richard Kelly and stars Cameron Diaz and James Marsden as a couple who receive a box with a mysterious power. Production began in November 2007 and concluded in February 2008.
The film begins with a CIA internal memo being typed across the screen. It states that a man named Arlington Steward has recovered from severe burn wounds and is delivering units related to the Mars project. Next, Norma awakes at 5:45AM as the doorbell rings while her husband, Arthur, sleeps next to her. As she looks through the peephole, she sees a black car drive off. Upon opening the door, she sees a package on her doorstep. Inside, she and her husband find a wooden box with a button protected by a glass dome, locked with a key, and a note, saying Mr. Steward will come at 5PM.
Arthur goes to work at NASA, where he works in optics, and helped in designing the camera on the Viking Mars probe. He finds he has been rejected from the astronaut program despite acing his tests and glowing recommendations, because he failed his psych exam. Norma goes to her job as a teacher at an elite private school teaching literature, where they are discussing Sartre’s vision of Hell. One of her students remarks on her limp, after which she shows her class her disfigured right foot, missing 5 toes. Later that day Norma returns home and confesses her fear of being thrown out on the street, because of the lack of income that they are receiving. That is when Arlington Steward (Frank Langella) appears at their door. Norma looks at the clock and realizes it is 5PM.
Arlington offers them one million dollars if they press the button sealed in the dome. The catch is that someone they do not know will die. Norma and Arthur contemplate whether or nor they would be able to cope with someone’s death on their hands.
Cast:
- Cameron Diaz as Norma Lewis
- James Marsden as Arthur Lewis
- Frank Langella as Arlington Steward
- Gillian Jacobs as Dana Steward
- Sam Oz Stone as Walter Lewis
- Ryan Woodle as Lucas Carnes
- James Rebhorn as Norm Cahill
- Holmes Osborne as Dick Burns
- Andrew Levitas as black ops Carson
- Bill Thorpe as NASA administrator
- Allyssa Maurice as Suzanne Weller
- Sal Lizard as Santa
- Mattew C. Flynn as Young Deputy
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