Pathology (film)
Pathology is a 2008 medical thriller directed by Marc Schölermann and written by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. The cast was announced on April 4, 2007 and filming started in May 2007. The film premiered April 11, 2008 in the United Kingdom and opened inlimited release in the United States on April 18, 2008.
Plot The intro shows a camera recording faces of corpses, with their mouths being moved by medical students.
Med school student Teddy Grey (Milo Ventimiglia) graduates top of his class from Harvard and joins one of the nation’s most prestigious Pathology programs. With talent and determination, Teddy is quickly noticed by the program’s privileged and elite band of pathology interns who invite him into their crowd. Intrigued by his new friends he joins them in their dangerous and secret after-hours game at the morgue of who can commit the perfect undetectable murder. As Teddy becomes seduced into their wild extracurricular activities, the danger becomes real and he must stay one step ahead of the game before he is the next victim.
Eventually the group's leader, Jake Gallo, realizes that Teddy is sleeping with his girlfriend, Dr. Juliette Bath, while Gallo would murder people during their secret meetings. Not to mention, when Teddy catches several members of the group in lies, he realizes that what initially seemed like vigilante killings are, in actuality, just innocent people murdered for sport. When Teddy's fiancée Gwen arrives to stay with him in his apartment, Gallo, angered by Juliette's infidelity, kills her for the next game. However, just as they are about to begin the autopsy on Bath (while plotting Teddy's death), Gallo realizes that the gas has been left on in the room, resulting in a massive explosion as one of the group lights a meth pipe, killing everyone (but Teddy who was not in the room). Gallo realizes what is about to happen and survives. Teddy is seen walking away from the explosion. Eventually Gallo manages to kill Gwen in what he believes to be the "perfect murder". Upon completing his autopsy report on his murdered fiancée, Teddy is knocked out by Gallo and then is forced to trade verbal barbs with him. Teddy uses some of Gallo's own rhetoric against him in reverse psychology fashion, after which fellow pathologist Ben Stravinsky frees Teddy and together they kill Gallo in exactly the same way that he killed Teddy's fiancée (during which, they commence dissecting a still alive Gallo).
Cast
. Milo Ventimiglia as Dr. Ted Grey . Michael Weston as Dr. Jake Gallo . Alyssa Milano as Gwen Williamson . Lauren Lee Smith as Dr. Juliette Bath . Johnny Whitworth as Dr. Griffin Cavanaugh . John de Lancie as Dr. Quentin Morris . Mei Melançon as Dr. Catherine Ivy . Keir O'Donnell as Dr. Ben Stravinsky . Dan Callahan as Chip Bentwood . Larry Drake as Fat Bastard . Buddy Lewis as Harper Johnson . Alan Blumenfeld as Mr. Williamson . Deborah Pollack as Mrs. Williamson . Anne Girard as Donna (Ben's Date) . Jarvis W. George as ICU Doctor (as Jarvis George) . Don Smith as Man on Bus . Sam Witwer as Party Boy
Critical reception
The film received mixed reviews from critics. As of April 23, 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 47% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 19 reviews. Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 55 out of 100, based on 8 reviews.
An Education
An Education is a 2009 British coming-of-age drama film, based on a memoir of the same name by British journalist Lynn Barber. The film was directed by Lone Scherfig from a screenplay by Nick Hornby, and stars Carey Mulligan as Jenny, a bright schoolgirl, andPeter Sarsgaard as David, the charming con man who seduces her. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards in 2009 including Best Picture and Best Actress for Carey Mulligan.
An Education premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim. It screened on 10 September 2009 at the Toronto International Film Festival and was featured at the Telluride by the Sea Film Festival in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA, on 19 September 2009. The film was shown on 9 October 2009, at the Mill Valley Film Festival. It was released in the US on 16 October 2009 and in the UK on 30 October 2009.
Plot
In 1961 London, Jenny Mellor is a 16-year-old schoolgirl on track to enter Oxford University when she meets a charming Jewish conman, David Goldman, who pursues her romantically. He takes her to concerts, clubs, and fine restaurants, and easily charms her parents into approving of the relationship. Jenny recognizes that David is a con man who makes money through a variety of shady practices. She is initially shocked but silences her misgivings in the face of David's persuasive charm.
Soon, David takes Jenny to Paris as a birthday gift. Jenny's parents invite Graham, a boy Jenny knows from Youth Orchestra, to Jenny's birthday party, but David arrives and Graham goes home. When David proposes marriage, Jenny accepts and leaves school. She then discovers David is already married. When she reveals her discovery to David, he drops out of sight. Jenny despairs, feeling she has thrown her life away, but with the help of her favorite teacher, resumes her studies and is accepted at Oxford the following year.
Cast
. Carey Mulligan as Jenny Mellor . Peter Sarsgaard as David Goldman . Dominic Cooper as Danny, David's friend and partner in crime (Orlando Bloom was originally cast in this role, but dropped out before shooting began) . Rosamund Pike as Helen, Danny's girlfriend . Alfred Molina as Jack Mellor, Jenny's father . Cara Seymour as Marjorie Mellor, Jenny's mother . Emma Thompson as Miss Walters, the headmistress at Jenny's school . Olivia Williams as Miss Stubbs, Jenny's concerned teacher . Sally Hawkins as Sarah Goldman, David's wife . Matthew Beard as Graham, a boy Jenny knows from the Youth Orchestra they play in. . Ellie Kendrick as Tina, Jenny's friend from school. . Beth Rowley as a nightclub singer.
Production
Writing
Mulligan during a Q&A following the screening of An Education at the Ryerson Theatre on 25 September 2009.
Nick Hornby created the screenplay based on an autobiographical essay by the British journalist Lynn Barber about her schoolgirl affair with Jewish conman Simon Prewalski, referred to by her as Simon Goldman, which was published in the literary magazine Granta. Barber's full memoir, An Education, was not published in book form until June 2009, when filming had already been completed. Hornby said that what appealed to him in the memoir was that "She's a suburban girl who's frightened that she's going to get cut out of everything good that happens in the city. That, to me, is a big story in popular culture. It's the story of pretty much every rock 'n' roll band.” Although the screenplay involved Hornby writing about a teenage girl, he did not feel it was more challenging than writing any other character: "I think the moment you're writing about somebody who's not exactly you, then the challenge is all equal. I was glad that everyone around me on this movie was a woman so that they could watch me carefully. But I don't remember anyone saying to me, 'That isn't how women think.'"
Recreating 1961 England
Although Jenny's family home and her school are supposed to be in the suburb of Twickenham, Middlesex (incorrectly referred to as 'Twickenham, London' - Twickenham did not become part of Greater London till 1965), the residential scenes featured in the film were shot on location in the Gunnersbury area of Ealing, west London as well as Mattock Lane in West Ealing and The Japanese School in Acton, which used to be the site of the girls' school called Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls.[12] The area is convincingly arranged to appear as it would have in the 1960s, with the only noticeable exception being the 1990s-era street lighting. There are several other anachronisms, such as a police two-tone horn at a time when bells were still used, the skirt lengths and hairstyles of the schoolgirls, and the fact that St John's Smith Square was not opened as a concert hall until 1969. The Pentax camera featured in the film (at 1.02.11) appears to be a Pentax S1 (or similar), which wasavailable at the time.
Release
Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard at the New York premiere in October 2009
Critical response The film currently holds a 94 percent "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 177 critics' reviews.
Box office An Education grossed £1,633,504 from its domestic release and $26,096,852 worldwide.
Allegations of anti-Semitism The film's release immediately raised questions regarding the necessity of having the con man be Jewish, a theme that plays into traditional anti-Semitic stereotypes. In an interview with The Forward, Hornby explained that he had wrestled with this question and had decided to remain faithful to the original essay, where the lead character is a Jewish con man. Hornby said he did not see the con man as particularly greedy, only a "petty criminal", and that he hopes that "we’re beyond the point where you can only show ethnic and religious groups in a positive light". Hornby also explained that the anti-Semitic comments by certain characters in the film upset people because "we didn’t kill the characters that make antisemitic remarks — that they’re not actually punished within the film. I think that people are not used to the idea that people go unpunished in movies". However, critics such as Joe Baltake argue that the film's plot itself goes out of its way to justify these anti-Semitic outbursts: "the ethnicity of her lover is unnecessarily made a crucial part in her betrayal". Irina Bragin argues that the film presents the stereotypical greedy and dishonest "wandering Jew" as the counter-stereotype to "refined, attractive, honest, sober and hard working" British Christian values.
Accolades
An Education won the Audience Choice award and the Cinematography award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.[7] Mulligan won a Hollywood Film Festival award for Best Hollywood Breakthrough Performance for a Female. It was selected as Sight & Sound's film of the month.
The film was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actress for Carey Mulligan and Best Adapted Screenplay. The 63rd British Academy Film Awards saw the film come away with one award (for Best Actress) from nine nominations. The film received six British Independent Film Awards nominations and five Satellite Awardsnominations.
The Ward
The Ward is a 2010 American psychological horror film directed by John Carpenter. The screenplay is written by. It stars Amber Heard, Danielle Panabaker, Mika Boorem, and Jared Harris. It is Carpenter's first full-length feature film since Ghosts of Mars in 2001. The story revolves around a young institutionalized woman named Kristen (Amber Heard) who is haunted by a mysterious and deadly zombie/ghost. As danger creeps closer, she comes to realize that this zombie might be darker than anything she ever could have imagined.
Plot
At the North Bend Psychiatric Hospital in 1966, a young patient named Tammy is attacked and killed by an unseen force during the night.
Kristen (Amber Heard), a troubled young woman sets fire to an abandoned farmhouse. The local police take her to the psychiatric hospital. She is taken to the ward where she meets other patients: Iris (Lyndsy Fonseca), Sarah (Danielle Panabaker), Emily (Mamie Gummer), and Zoey (Laura Leigh), and is given Tammy's old room. She meets Dr. Stringer (Jared Harris), her therapist, but is unable to recall anything about her past. She later attempts to escape, only to be caught and returned to her cell. Waking up in the middle of the night, she sees a horribly disfigured person staring at her. While she is with Iris and Emily, Kristen sees two people looking at her from Dr. Stringer's office, but the girls give no clue as to who they are. Whilst taking a shower, Kristen is attacked by the disfigured figure, but upon telling the nurse this, she is drugged and put through intense electroshock therapy. On a session with Dr.Stringer, Iris mentions Tammy, but is immediately halted by the doctor.
In Iris's last therapy session, Dr. Stringer uses hypnotherapy to unlock her hidden memories. After the session, Iris is killed by the disfigured zombie. Kristen tries to find out what happened to her friend and finds Iris's sketchbook, where there is a sketch of the zombie that had attacked her, with the name Alice Hudson written on top. It is revealed that Alice was a patient at the hospital. That night, despite Sarah and Zoey's warning that it is nearly impossible to leave, Kristen and Emily attempt to find Iris and escape. However, the alarm is triggered. Kristen is thwarted by Alice's zombie and blacks out, reawakening back in her room, and it is revealed that Emily was caught. On her way to her final appointment with Dr. Stringer, Sarah flirts with a nurse, but is rejected. She then goes to the other girls and asks Kirsten what happened to her plan and also seemingly gives her a clue that they did not find Iris because they were "not looking into the right places." After bickering with Emily, she is killed by Alice's zombie. Kristen, noticing Sarah is missing and finding out that Zoey's doll formerly belonged to Alice, she forces the girl to tell her what is happening. She finds out that all of the girls had killed Alice, lead by Tammy, because Alice constantly hurts them. Now the ghost is after them for revenge. Emily attempts to commits suicide, thinking she is doomed. Kristen attempts to stop her, but Alice's zombie appears again and kills Emily. Kristen plans a last attempt to escape by holding Zoey as a pretend hostage. Their attempt is thwarted by Dr. Stringer. She is drugged and placed in astraitjacket. However, she manages to escape and takes Zoey with her to try and break out one last time. Zoey is captured by the zombie and killed. Kristen manages to kill the zombie, and finds a file on Alice Hudson, which details her treatments and all of the girl's names, including Kristen's.
Dr. Stringer then reveals the truth: Kristen's real name is Alice Hudson. Throughout the film, various flashbacks are shown of a young girl in chains, about to be sexually abused by an unknown man. The girl in the flashbacks is Alice herself, who was kidnapped from her home eight years ago. Alice was left chained up for two months in the basement of the same farmhouse "Kristen" had burned down; in order to survive the past torture, she created different personalities. Alice is suffering from multiple personality disorder, creating Tammy, Zoey, Sarah, Iris and Emily. Over time, Alice's own personality became so overwhelmed by that of the others that she became lost. Through experimental techniques, Dr. Stringer explains that her treatments were working until "Kristen" appeared, yet another invention of Alice's mind to protect itself from reliving the trauma at the farmhouse. After this revelation, Alice's ghost appears and throws herself and "Kristen" out of the window, reawakening Alice.
Alice's parents, who she had seen earlier in Dr. Stringer's office, come to take her home because she is finally fully treated. After gathering her belongings, Alice takes one last look around her room. Upon opening her cabinet, "Kristen" suddenly comes out and attacks her.
Cast
. Amber Heard as Kristen, the main protagonist. A beautiful girl with no memories of her life but the strong belief that she is not crazy. She feels the constant need to escape the ward no matter the cost. She is the first in noticing the other girls are disappearing and that a vengeful ghost might be the one behind it. . Mamie Gummer as Emily. She is tough and free-spirited but also the one who mostly acts in wild, insane manner, annoys the other patients, and calls everyone crazy, which often starts conflict among girls especially between her and Sarah. Initially, she tries to intimidate and scare Kirsten, but eventually, Kirsten's strength makes her admire her. She hides a guilty feeling inside her though it seems unlikely she will open to it. . Danielle Panabaker as Sarah, a vain, beautiful redhead and the flirtatious one of the group. She flirts with a male nurse but is turned down because she is a mental patient. She often puts down the other girls through her snobbish ans snooty disposition. . Laura-Leigh as Zoey, a girl with an emotional trauma so hard that she keeps acting and dressing like a little girl. She carries around a stuffed rabbit everywhere she goes. She seems oppressed by the others due to her instant trust in Kristen. . Lyndsy Fonseca as Iris, artistically talented and prim and proper, she is the first of the girls in befriending Kristen. She is nice and kind to everyone. She also carries a sketchbook where she likes to draw. She seems to be the most aware of their situation in the ward since she explains Kristen everything about their seclusion. . Mika Boorem as Alice, a girl who used to be a patient at the ward but is nowhere to be found anymore. Kristen tries to find out what happened to her during her time at the Ward. . Jared Harris as Dr. Stringer, the girls' psychiatrist. He seems hopeful in curing Kristen, though his real intentions seem mysterious the whole time. . Sydney Sweeney as Young Alice, a young girl who Kristen sees in flashbacks, both hands chained in a cellar. Nothing is really explained about her in the beginning. . Dan Anderson as Roy, the chief orderly at the ward. Serious and unpredictable, tries to maintain order inside the ward. He is the main target of Sarah's flirting. . Susanna Burney as Nurse Lundt, the chief nurse at the ward. Tends to consider Kristen a loose end, and constantly tries to act without the authority of Dr. Stringer. . Sali Sayler as Tammy, a girl who disappears from the ward unexpectedly. Her disappearance upsets the other girls. Her empty room is later occupied by Kristen. She is the mastermind behind Alice's "death" at the hands of the girls. . Mark Chamberlin as Mr. Hudson, the sad man (as Iris describes him and his wife). They constantly visit the ward and are often seen watching the girls from a window. . Jillian Kramer as Monster Alice, the ghost responsible for the disappearances. Using surgical tools as torture means on her victims. Not much is clear about her rather than the fact that she is getting rid of the girls one by one.
Production
The first footage revealed from the movie was on French channel Canal+.
Release
The film premiered on September 13 at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.
The full trailer for the film was released by Warner Brothers on January 7, 2011. The Ward was released in the UK on January 21, 2011 with a 15 viewing age rating.
After its debut in a handful of film festivals in late 2010, The Ward was released in US theatres on July 8, 2011.
The Ward was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in the UK on 24 October 2011.
Reception
Film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a 33% on the Tomatometer, with a rating of 4.4/10 based on 64 reviews. Metacritic gave The Ward a 38 out of a 100, with 18 critics giving it a generally unfavorable review.
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