Hollywood Movie Restless 2011 Watch Trailer Review Story Cast And Crew
Storyline:
The story of a terminally ill teenage girl who falls for a boy who likes to attend funerals and their encounters with the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot from WWII.
Synopsis:
Annabel Cotton is a beautiful and charming terminal cancer patient with a deep felt love of life and the natural world. Enoch Brae is a young man who has dropped out of the business of living, after an accident claimed the life of his parents. When these two outsiders chance to meet at a funeral, they find an unexpected common ground in their unique experiences of the world. For Enoch, it includes his best friend Hiroshi who happens to be the ghost of a Kamikaze fighter pilot. For Annabel, it involves an admiration of Charles Darwin and an interest in how other creatures live. Upon learning of Annabel's imminent early passing, Enoch offers to help her face her last days with an irreverent abandon, tempting fate, tradition and even death itself.
As their unique love for each other grows, so do the realities of the world that they have felt closing in on them. Daring, childlike, and distinctly rare - these two bravely face what life has in store for them. Fighting pain, anger and loss with youth, playfulness and originality, these two misfits turn the tables on life and play by their own rules. Their journey begins to collide with the unstoppable march of time, as the natural cycle of life comes to claim Annabel...
Movie Review:
By: Brad Brevet
Thursday, May 12th 2011 at 2:31 PM
Once you've seen Gus Van Sant's Restless, you realize the distributor shuffle the film has done over the past several months says a lot about what kind of film it is. Is it a movie better suited as a specialty film housed at Sony Pictures Classics, or is it more of a slightly comical, but more serious romantic drama for Columbia Pictures? Sony chose to hand it over to the former after it originally had a January release date with the latter. Do they have it figured out?
The dilemma Sony faced is represented in this tonally conflicted drama that never really seems to figure itself out. Just when you think its found its way it takes a left, carrying only fragments of its former self with it. By the time you get to the end you've been jerked in so many directions there's very little left to take with you. Some could argue this is a result of the film falling in line with the path of its protagonists, and I'd agree, but it isn't a path that necessarily ends up leading anywhere of much consequence, and certainly not one we haven't traveled before.
The story revolves around Anna (Mia Wasikowska) and Enoch (Henry Hopper), a pair of late-teens lost in their ways for different reasons, though both are confronting the demons that death beholds. Enoch crashes funerals as he's still trying to cope with the loss of his parents who died in a car accident — one that almost took his life as well. And, as if that wasn't enough, he spends most of his time with Hiroshi (Ryo Kase), the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot who's been with him since his parent's death. Anna's complications are a bit more simple, but far more dire. She's just been told the tumor growing in her brain gives her only three more months to live.
Main Cast And Crew
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Henry Hopper, Ryo Kase
Schuyler Fisk, Lusia Strus, Jane Adams, And Others
Directed by: Gus Van Sant
Produced by: Gus Van Sant, Bryce Dallas Howard
Ron Howard, Brian Grazer
Writer by: Jason Lew
Music by: Danny Elfman
Editing by: Elliot Graham
Cinematography: Harris Savides
Studio: Alcon Columbia Pictures
Imagine Entertainment
Distributed by: Sony Pictures Classics
Release date: September 16, 2011
Genre: Drama
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Language: English
Filming Locations: Portland, Oregon, USA
Runtime: 91 min
Movie Trailer:
The story of a terminally ill teenage girl who falls for a boy who likes to attend funerals and their encounters with the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot from WWII.
Synopsis:
Annabel Cotton is a beautiful and charming terminal cancer patient with a deep felt love of life and the natural world. Enoch Brae is a young man who has dropped out of the business of living, after an accident claimed the life of his parents. When these two outsiders chance to meet at a funeral, they find an unexpected common ground in their unique experiences of the world. For Enoch, it includes his best friend Hiroshi who happens to be the ghost of a Kamikaze fighter pilot. For Annabel, it involves an admiration of Charles Darwin and an interest in how other creatures live. Upon learning of Annabel's imminent early passing, Enoch offers to help her face her last days with an irreverent abandon, tempting fate, tradition and even death itself.
As their unique love for each other grows, so do the realities of the world that they have felt closing in on them. Daring, childlike, and distinctly rare - these two bravely face what life has in store for them. Fighting pain, anger and loss with youth, playfulness and originality, these two misfits turn the tables on life and play by their own rules. Their journey begins to collide with the unstoppable march of time, as the natural cycle of life comes to claim Annabel...
Movie Review:
By: Brad Brevet
Thursday, May 12th 2011 at 2:31 PM
Once you've seen Gus Van Sant's Restless, you realize the distributor shuffle the film has done over the past several months says a lot about what kind of film it is. Is it a movie better suited as a specialty film housed at Sony Pictures Classics, or is it more of a slightly comical, but more serious romantic drama for Columbia Pictures? Sony chose to hand it over to the former after it originally had a January release date with the latter. Do they have it figured out?
The dilemma Sony faced is represented in this tonally conflicted drama that never really seems to figure itself out. Just when you think its found its way it takes a left, carrying only fragments of its former self with it. By the time you get to the end you've been jerked in so many directions there's very little left to take with you. Some could argue this is a result of the film falling in line with the path of its protagonists, and I'd agree, but it isn't a path that necessarily ends up leading anywhere of much consequence, and certainly not one we haven't traveled before.
The story revolves around Anna (Mia Wasikowska) and Enoch (Henry Hopper), a pair of late-teens lost in their ways for different reasons, though both are confronting the demons that death beholds. Enoch crashes funerals as he's still trying to cope with the loss of his parents who died in a car accident — one that almost took his life as well. And, as if that wasn't enough, he spends most of his time with Hiroshi (Ryo Kase), the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot who's been with him since his parent's death. Anna's complications are a bit more simple, but far more dire. She's just been told the tumor growing in her brain gives her only three more months to live.
Main Cast And Crew
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Henry Hopper, Ryo Kase
Schuyler Fisk, Lusia Strus, Jane Adams, And Others
Directed by: Gus Van Sant
Produced by: Gus Van Sant, Bryce Dallas Howard
Ron Howard, Brian Grazer
Writer by: Jason Lew
Music by: Danny Elfman
Editing by: Elliot Graham
Cinematography: Harris Savides
Studio: Alcon Columbia Pictures
Imagine Entertainment
Distributed by: Sony Pictures Classics
Release date: September 16, 2011
Genre: Drama
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Language: English
Filming Locations: Portland, Oregon, USA
Runtime: 91 min
Movie Trailer: