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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
EAN: 0786936718133
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Miramax
Manufacturer: Miramax
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 09, 2007
Running Time: 81 minutes
Sales Rank: 23053
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: August 04, 2006
Editorial Review:
Description:
Academy Award(R) winner Robin Williams (Best Supporting Actor, GOOD WILL HUNTING, 1997; ONE HOUR PHOTO, INSOMNIA) is unforgettable in a riveting, critically acclaimed psychological thriller based on true events! Gabriel Noone (Williams), a celebrated writer and late-night talk show host, becomes captivated by the harrowing story of a young listener and his adoptive mother (Toni Collette – LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, IN HER SHOES). When troubling questions arise about the boy’s identity, however, Noone finds himself drawn into a widening mystery that hides a deadly secret! Also starring Sandra Oh (SIDEWAYS, TV’s GREY'S ANATOMY) and based on the best-selling novel by Armistead Maupin, THE NIGHT LISTENER delivers unpredictable twists and turns that will keep you on the edge of your seat!
Amazon.com:
Celebrity and psychosis collide to truly creepy effect in The Night Listener. Radio personality Gabriel Noone (Robin Williams) is asked to read an advance copy of a memoir by a boy who was horribly abused by his parents. Struck by the boy's story, Noone starts talking to him over the phone, gradually taking an almost parental interest in him--until someone suggests that the boy may not be exactly who he seems. Troubled, Noone flies to Wisconsin, where he meets the boy's social worker (Toni Collette, The Sixth Sense, In Her Shoes) and uncovers some alarming secrets. Don't let the vague, faux-literary title The Night Listener lead you astray; this is a horror movie and a very good one. There are no supernatural monsters or relentless axe-murderers, only a damaged, manipulative mind, which proves to be creepier than any serial killer. Williams gives an excellent, quirk-free performance, but it's Collette who gets under your skin and crawls around. She's vividly eerie, the sort of performance that can stick with you for days. Stealthy, surprising, and wonderfully acted all around--the movie also features Joe Morton (The Brother from Another Planet), Bobby Cannavale (The Station Agent), and Sandra Oh (Sideways)--The Night Listener is an unexpected gem. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Not interested
I didn't like I though that it could be interesting, since I like his movies, but I did not like, the end is make non-sense
Rating:  - eerie
Robin Williams plays Gabriel Noone, a radio personality, who is going through a "time-out" from his lover. He's been asked to review a book from a young man, with health problems, who happens to be Gabriel's biggest fan. The book is a memoir of a childhood filled with abuses and other strange incidents.
Within a short amount of time, Gabriel becomes fond of this fan, even though they've only communicated via telephone. That is, until one day, his estranged lover suggested that the ... Read More
Rating:  - Don't Answer The Phone...
After reading the DVD box quote by Roger Ebert: "An Eerie, Hitchcockian Thriller.", I was expecting a cross between PSYCHO, NORTH BY NORTHWEST, and REAR WINDOW. Well, I was pretty far off the mark! THE NIGHT LISTENER (based on a true story) isn't a very physical, or exhillerating movie. Instead, it is a movie that crawls under the skin with creeping dread. The story deals w/ the unpredictability of the mentally damaged. Robin Williams (ONE HOUR PHOTO, INSOMNIA) is his normal / abnormal stellar self ... Read More
Rating: - A Modest Proposal
No doubt it would have been scarier if Robin Williams had played the caregiver of the poor 14 year old abused boy Pete Logand, and Toni Collette had played the driven radio talk show host whose drab life gets a shot in the arm when she becomes obsessed with getting in touch with the boy, who has written what could turn out to be a best seller in the making, THE BLACKING FACTORY, describing his early life in his parents' basement as the victim of a gang of midwestern pervs. If Williams had been the ... Read More
Rating: - A Good Start...but
The Night Listener, based on a true story, starts fairly auspiciously. A personally troubled, openly gay radio host (Robin Williams) is contacted by a teenage fan who is dying of AIDS, (although illness is only part of the boy's story). The host is given a manuscript of the boy's life story, which is soon to be published. The boy is reported to have been enslaved and subjected to unthinkable torture and rape at the hands of both his parents and others. We presume the boy contracted AIDS during that ... Read More
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