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This is a HItchcock movie

posted 8 years ago by fer_abra
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1956. "Anniversary" is Alfred Hitchcock's new suspense thriller, starring Cary Crant, Grace Kelly and James Stewart. Nick (Grant) and Amy (Kelly) Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary is marked by Amy's disappearance. The police and media start putting pressure on Nick as they suspect he might have murdered his wife.

We learn that she has in fact left him for her rich ex-boyfriend (Stewart), who has been obssesed with her since she left him. But she is soon tired of his controlling nature (makes her dye her hair blonde again,buys her new clothes,...). Meanwhile Nick is arrested and charged with murder, facing death penalty. Fighting for his life, he uses media attention to get her back and prove his innocence.

It's all there. The manipulative blonde. The wrong man. The obsessed and controlling lover who tries to get the girl back...

[–] kmags84 8 years ago

Hitchcock meets Lumet is a solid way to describe it IMO.

[–] TheDude83 8 years ago

Pity it was crap. Tried to be as smart as Hitchcock...turned out crap!

[–] LetThemEatCake01 8 years ago

Do not insult Hitchcock like that.

[–] UmpahpahBg 8 years ago

Exactly. Those were the times when the movie-makers would look behind to what they produce and correct the flaws. Here, it is not even close.

[–] LetThemEatCake01 8 years ago

Exactly,m this movie was absolute garbage.

[–] ChristianWoolf 8 years ago

But there aren't flows. Thing is you keep saying this movie is flawed but you can't bring an argument in.
Feel your heart beat.

[–] UmpahpahBg 8 years ago

For example, and I took the quote from "banana-83" review, he has more great observations but here are just a few soooo illogical that kid from 8 years can't by it:

He then kept her a prisoner, starved and raped her.Yet she found the opportunity and strength to kill him, but didn't call the police from his house to come rescue her. Rather she jumps in his car and drives all the way home.

- Upon returning home she has no wounds consistent with the bloodletting at her original house or at the hands of her alleged kidnapper.

- There is no visit to or investigation of the alleged kidnapping crime scene—house on the lake.

- The hospital sends her home in a nurses uniform, underneath which she is still caked in blood.

And there are many, many more. Arguments all around. But it is easy to state "there is no arguments" than to look at the movie critically... And it is a pity, I agree there, as the movie had potential, it is just always the same: so many exaggerations, in order to pander below average viewers...

[–] ChristianWoolf 8 years ago

- That's not a plot hole. Many victims hold in captivity by their abductors managed to attack them at some point and kill them or escape. She wouldn't call the cops cause it would become his word against her word. And she would probably lose.

- That's not a plot hole.

- The visit it's not shown. Not everything that happen in movies is shown on screen. It's like a story in real life, you don't see everything. It's implied though.

- Not a plot hole. Maybe she didn't want to take a shower at the hospital, she wanted to go home. That's why they've given her the nurse uniform.

And exactly my point. Not everything omitted on the screen is a plot hole. A plot hole is something in a story that doesn't make sense. It makes sense that she would want to go home as soon as possible. So it would make sense to not show the investigation at Desi's house. Why is it important to show it when you know what happened? Probably the investigation was underway at that point, probably they even found something suspect, but you don't have to know that. It's not part of the main story.

Feel your heart beat.

[–] gbean2397 8 years ago

This movie is almost a bit like "Shadow of a Doubt meets Klute", if you ask me. A sinister presence lurking within a peaceful small town, along with the focus of a disappearance and the circumstances surrounding it.