Hide and Seek is a 2005 film, directed by John Polson and starring Robert De Niro and Dakota Fanning. The film opened in the United States in January 2005 and was top of the box office. It did not reach the same level of critical success; the majority of the mixed reviews it received were negative. The performances of the actors were highly praised however.Plot
- Tagline: Come out come out whatever you are.
After the suicide of his wife, David discovers that his nine-year-old daughter Emily behaves strangely as she finds solace in her creepy imaginary friend who wants to be called 'Charlie'.
The movie proceeds with increasingly disturbing events being perputated by 'Charlie' with Emily's help.
The twist occurs when late in the movie, David discovers that he is 'Charlie'. David also discovers that he killed his wife because of her having an affair after a party. David, then, fully becomes 'Charlie'. Eventually he is killed by Katherine in the cave where Emily first met 'Charlie'.Endings
This film also has five different endings, one of which was used domestically, and another in select theatres and foreign markets, though the main twist remains the same.
- Preparing for school while living a new life with Katherine, Emily's drawing suggests her personality has split. Emily draws a second head on the shoulder of herself in the child drawing. (theatrical ending & international DVD release ending)
- Preparing for school while living a new life with Katherine, Emily's drawing at the end suggests everything is fine. The only variation between this and the domestic theatrical ending is that the film cuts back to the previous shot of the drawing, before Emily has added the other head, despite the second head being visible in the previous shot. Emily is also seen coloring the grass over with a green marker, but because of the replacing of the double-head picture shot with a previous shot having a single head, the grass was also undrawn, creating continuity issues.
- Emily is shown seemingly in a new apartment bedroom, and Katherine's actions mirror that of her mother's at the beginning of the film. She reassures her love to Emily and leaves the room. Emily gets out of bed and does a Hide and Seek countdown. She nears the closet, opens, and smiles at her own reflection, suggesting, like David, she too has a split personality due to trauma.
- Emily is shown seemingly in a new apartment bedroom, and Katherine's actions mirror that of her mother's at the beginning of the film. She reassures her love to Emily and begins to leave the room. Emily asks Katherine to leave the door open, but Katherine insists she cannot. As the door shuts, a protected window is visible on the door. The next cut is of Katherine locking the door from the outside, revealing this assumed apartment bedroom is actually a hospital room in a children's psychiatric ward. Katherine suggests to her assisting doctor that she is going to take Emily home with her the next day to start a new life. Emily gets out of bed and does a Hide and Seek countdown. She nears the closet, opens, and smiles at her own reflection, suggesting, like David, she too has a split personality due to trauma. Worth noting is that when Katherine enters the room, the shot of the door is a bedroom door, without the protected window. When the door is shown closing, it's a different door with a glass window, which creates continuity issues.
- Emily is shown seemingly in a new apartment bedroom, and Katherine's actions mirror that of her mother's at the beginning of the film. She reassures her love to Emily and begins to leave the room. Emily asks Katherine to leave the door open, but Katherine insists she cannot. As the door shuts, a protected window is visible on the door. The next cut is of Katherine locking the door from the outside, revealing this assumed apartment bedroom is actually a hospital room in a children's psychiatric ward. Katherine suggests to her assisting doctor that she is going to work hard to help Emily, but makes no suggestion of adoption. The scene fades. The above mentioned continuity issue with the bedroom door is also present in this variation of the ending.
According to the commentary, the directors, screenwriters, and producers chose the ending they did for the default DVD and domestic release because it gave the audience a relief at the end of the film. They felt the hospital room endings were too dark and suggested that Emily is being punished for things she did not do. After the Emily character is basically thrown into terror for the last 45 minutes of the film, they felt it was time to give her an emotional break, and the happy ending was chosen. Although the double-head suggests future drama or issues, it's most likely not of a frightening severity. She will maintain a very strong degree of stability and a happy life.[ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for Hide and Seek (2005 film) ]
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