Hide and Seek – Du kannst dich nicht verstecken (2005)

Hide and Seek – Du kannst dich nicht verstecken: Directed by John Polson. With Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen, Elisabeth Shue. As a widower tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife’s suicide, his daughter finds solace, at first, in her imaginary friend.

“Widower David and his daughter Emily leave the big city for the country after the tragic death of the Misses. Due to the fate of her mother Emily is going through a tough patch, one might say she has some issues when weird things like mutilated dolls and dead animals appear. But the clincher is her new found u0026quot;imaginaryu0026quot; friend Charlie. As Charlie asserts himself more and more, darker things start to happen and we all know what that means.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNot a horrible film but the script is horribly clichéd. I enjoyed myself but not quite the way the filmmakers had in mind. My friend and I traded quips back in forth as if we were at our own MST3K party or something. I noticed many others in the audience doing the same so we werenu0026#39;t alone. DeNiro was solid if a bit restrained. Fanning is a pretty good actress for a ten year old. She held her ground with DeNiro and even bested him several times. Hell she barely blinked for the first 45 minutes of the film. The direction wasnu0026#39;t spectacular, not overly flashy but didnu0026#39;t need to be. The script…ahh the script is where the film skids into a tailspin. A veritable Frankensteinu0026#39;s Monster of plots, devices and red herrings that served other films well but became a tepid pool here.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eDisappointing but not a total waste of time if you can forgive its shortcomings.”