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Pierce Brosnan, Melissa George, Annabeth Gish, Anika Noni Rose, Jason Priestley, William Schallert, Matt Frewer, Peter MacNeill, Julian Richings (mehr)Inhalte(1)
Nach dem plötzlichen Tod seiner Frau Jo leidet der Bestseller-Autor Mike Noonan an einer Schreibblockade und unter furchtbaren Alpträumen. Er zieht sich schließlich in sein Sommerhaus "Sara lacht" an einem See in Maine zurück. Doch statt der erhofften Erholung warten auf Mike hier weitere Alpträume und Geister aus der Vergangenheit. Mike beginnt den düsteren Geheimnissen, die das Haus offenbar birgt, auf den Grund zu gehen, und bringt sich dabei in größte Gefahr. (Sony Pictures DE)
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"Bag of Bones" is one of my favorite King works. When reading it, I thought King was a genius because I wished I could write something like that. I had a similar feeling only with "The Dark Tower." I loved the film version, and Pierce was a great choice. I felt like I was reading the novel again. For a TV film, it's surprisingly not boring in the scary moments. It's stretched out, yes, but not unbearably so.
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Miserable. Garris’s direction is at best average. The screenplay lacks the best bits in the book and overall it doesn’t make sense. The first half basically says nothing, has no momentum and events just happen. No suspense, no expectations. The casting didn’t work. I like Brosnan, but he isn’t right for this and it’s not that he can’t cast off the Bond jacket. On the contrary, his Noonan is bland and there’s nothing worse than a bland main protagonist. The exaggerated dramatization of some scenes is almost comical. Surprisingly, the only decently made parts are the flashbacks, which seemed to me to be the weaker parts of the book. Oh, and the way they rammed in modern technology almost everywhere got on my nerves. An iPad playing an old black and white video... product placement or an attempt to be hip?
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