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	Hide and Seek Movie Review at Hollywood Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Sure, elements of Hide and Seek are derivative—that's bound to happen when the number of movies produced exceeds the number of possible twists—but the bottom line is that this movie is highly compelling and utterly creepy.
		And in Hide and Seek, just out on DVD, her Bette Davis eyes are pools of grief and terror as the child whose new best friend appears to harbor an alarming homicidal streak.
		"Hide and seek" is her new pal's favorite game, Emily informs her father, and it all seems harmless enough, until a series of cruel pranks becomes ever more elaborate and dangerous—and far too complicated for a child to pull off on her own.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=119887 (1958 words)

	Hide and Seek, 2005, A Review by Phil Calabro
		The movie is composed of nothing more than 45-minute intervals of nothing, a rough cut of 1 or 2 good scares, and the confusing ending.
		In the end, 'Hide and Seek' is just another silly film that's miscast with good actors, and tarnished once the screenwriter decides to throw in the unimpressive finale.
		'Hide and Seek' is a formulaic and silly flick that either bores or gives a short-lasting jolt to the audience.
	home.comcast.net /~cineman87/HIDEANDSEEK.html (783 words)

	Hide and Seek (2005)
		I’m not entirely sure whether the folks behind Hide and Seek intend it to be a legitimately scary movie, or just a fun and trashy bit of camp, but it doesn’t entirely succeed as either.
		While the movie attempts to keep the whole “who or what is Charlie and what the HELL will he do next?!?!?” tension cranked at eleven, the answer to the question is obvious about 15 minutes into the film to anyone who’s paying attentionor, for that matter, to anyone who’s ever seen a movie before.
		Hide and Seek has its moments, and might make for an entertaining DVD rental for a dark and stormy night.
	www.moviepie.com /rent/hide_and_seek.htm (694 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Hide and Seek (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Since John Polson's "Hide and Seek" is a thriller, he finds the ideal new home: A vast frame summer home, with lots of attics and basements and crannies and staircases, on a lakeside that must be jolly enough in the summertime, but is deserted now in the wintertime.
		Also a movie where the father brings home a woman for dinner, and the daughter resents her role in her father's life.
		At the beginning of "Hide and Seek," I thought I was going to be interested in the characters all the way to the end, but then the plot went on autopilot.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050127/REVIEWS/50119001/1023 (901 words)

	Hide and Seek (2005) - Review - Moviefone
		Families who see this movie could talk about why Emily did not feel like she could talk about her emotions directly and what other characters might have done to let Emily know she was not alone.
		Hide and Seek, despite early signs of higher goals, is a factory-standard box of shocks.
		"This movie was not as scary as we all expected...good psychologicial thriller.
	movies.aol.com /movie/hide-and-seek-2005/18522/reviews (644 words)

	Hide and Seek (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Hide and Seek is not your typical thriller.
		Hide and Seek gives both performers a chance to show their range, but the biggest surprise is perhaps that Fanning can match De Niro step for step.
		While the style and content of Hide and Seek are very different than The Shining--Hide and Seek is even more understated--that's also a slower-paced film that finds much of its effectiveness from its thick atmosphere and commendable performances, and fans of Kubrick's great horror film should find enough to enjoy here as well.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0382077 (796 words)

	TheMovieBoy Review - Hide and Seek (2005)
		"Hide and Seek" features two actors—one a veteran A-lister returning to his dramatic roots after a string of comedic misfires, the other quickly becoming the mostly rightfully in-demand child star of her generation—working at the top of their games.
		Directed by John Polson with a similar sleek, stylish vigor he injected into 2002's "Swimfan," "Hide and Seek" is an absorbing mystery-thriller for its first hour, indelibly creepy and scrupulously paced, until it races off the tracks toward a dumb, albeit predictable, twist ending and violent, distasteful slasher movie conventions.
		Also disheartening about "Hide and Seek" is its ultimate relegation toward cheap scares, questionable child endangerment, and pointless death scenes of both the human and animal variety.
	www.themovieboy.com /reviews/h/05_hideandseek.htm (834 words)

	Hide And Seek (2005)
		Actually, she provides the movie’s sole good performance, as she does her best with the limited scope of the material and manages to give Emily a little more personality than should have been the case.
		Hide and Seek appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.40:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		Perhaps the movie wanted to be overly dark, but I thought the shots were too tough to make out too much of the time.
	www.dvdmg.com /hideandseek.shtml (2218 words)

	A FromTheBalcony Review: Hide And Seek (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Hide and Seek takes an intriguing first hour of buildup and flushes it down the toilet by downgrading itself to another "killer on the loose" fable that has been done time and again as of late.
		The critical error that Hide and Seek makes is the decision to reveal its big secret little more than halfway through the film.
		Hide and Seek, sadly enough, is another throwaway January leftover.
	www.fromthebalcony.com /reviews/2005/05_hideandseekbc.htm (927 words)

	Hide and Seek (2005) Movie Review - RopeofSilicon.com
		The movie turns out to be one the worst, most clichéd films I have seen in a long time.
		With a lack of an original plot, the movie tries to rely on the acting to carry it, which does not happen, and while the acting is good, nothing can save this atrocity.
		Hide and Seek is an embarassment and a film in which De Niro, Fanning, Shue and Janssen should all be questioning their involvement while looking for new agents at the same time.
	www.ropeofsilicon.com /review.php?id=1245 (372 words)

	Hide and Seek (2005): Reviews
		Through its first two-thirds, at least, Hide and Seek does a good enough job of piquing our curiosity that the movie's ultimate dumbness is more than a minor insult.
		The movie is OK for a January horror picture, but given the premise and the cast--it should wring you out emotionally as it's scaring you witless.
		Hide and Seek follows no semblance of internal logic--the unveiling of Charlie is a ludicrous cheat, the last reel a unique paroxysm of rancid idiocy.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/hideandseek (1396 words)

	Movieman's Guide to the Movies - Hide and Seek (2005) - Widescreen Edition - Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning
		Hide and Seek is about psychologist David Callaway (De Niro) who moves with his daughter, Emily (Fanning), to a remote part in upstate New York with the hope that it would help her deal with the death of her mother who had committed suicide.
		I don't think I need to name them, do I? As a whole, Hide and Seek isn't a bad film per se and is probably worth a rental, but this isn't a movie I really want to see again anytime soon.
		For their parts, Robert De Niro and Dakota Fanning are both good (Fanning could certainly be creepy, though the jet fl hair and chilling eyes help), but neither of them could dig it out of the murkiness of a sludgy and predictable plot.
	www.moviemansguide.com /reviews/DVD/hideandseekDVD.php (828 words)

	Hide and Seek (2005) Movie Review - The Hollywood News
		Hide and Seek boasts a roster of A-list acting talent, perhaps the two finest actors of their respective generations in DeNiro and Dakota Fanning and, if the trailers can be trusted, a promising evening of thrills and chills at the Bijou.
		DeNiro plays a Clinical Psychologist, and for her part, Fanning is perfect as the badly drawn girl, with the dark, bagged eyes that hide behind them the secret of the film.
		The creators of Hide and Seek, offer two or three possible "Charlie" candidates - hoping that may throw enough of a head-fake at the audience so as to surprise them.
	www.thehollywoodnews.com /reviews/archive/2005/hide-and-seek.php (453 words)

	"Hide and Seek" (2005) / a review and/or comments from Christian Spotlight on the Movies
		“Hide and Seek” is a dark, disturbing tale of a father pushed to the breaking point and his young ten year old daughter who is cruelly caught in the midst of his nightmare.
		This movie is too frightening for children and aptly rated R, even though there is but one vulgarity, no sex scenes or nudity to speak of.
		Families who see this movie should talk about why Emily did not feel like she could talk about her emotions directly and what other characters might have done to let Emily know she was not alone.
	christiananswers.net /spotlight/movies/2005/hideandseek2005.html (2609 words)

	Hide and Seek (2005) Starring: Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Elisabeth Shue - Three Movie Buffs Review
		Hide and Seek is a mediocre thriller with a stellar cast.
		And as a thriller/horror movie should, this one provides a few jumps and thrills along with its mysteries, even if some of them are by the numbers horror movie standards, such as the heroine hearing a noise in the cellar and going to investigate.
		Decent, but not great, Hide and Seek is a mystery that didn't make enough of an effort to hide itself.
	www.threemoviebuffs.com /review.php?movieID=hideandseek (567 words)

	Hide and Seek (2005 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hide and Seek is a 2005 film, directed by John Polson and starring Robert De Niro, Famke Janssen and Dakota Fanning.
		The film opened in the United States in January 2005 and was top of the box office.
		The twist occurs when, late in the movie, David discovers that he is suffering from multiple personality disorder.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hide_and_Seek_(2005_film) (985 words)

	nofreelist.com - Hide and Seek (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This movie is about a young girl,Emily, who is suffering over the loss of her mother.
		She enjoys the company of Charlie who clearly throughout the movie is not really a good influence on her, as she starts to pickup Charlie's gruesome and disturbing activities and not only scare her father, but people she is close to.
		This movie was a none stop thriller over all but they could have explain the plot a lot better.It was hardly any type of horror for the taste of my friends and I.It had its scary parts but it was only the blood that was the most graphic.
	nofreelist.com /review/?movieid=1218 (893 words)

	Hide and Seek (2005) - Movie Info - Moviefone
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	Hide and Seek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Robert De Niro and especially Dakota Fanning have earned some praise for their work in Hide and Seek, but critics have called the rest of the film derivative, illogical and somewhat silly.
		In a classic case of bait and switch, Hide and Seek squanders its carefully built setup.
		Another movie in which rich white people who don’t seem to have or need jobs move to a mansion in the country to be terrorized by a mysterious, faceless, evil.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/hide_and_seek (1062 words)

	Amazon.com: Hide and Seek (Widescreen Edition): DVD: John Polson,Robert De Niro,Dakota Fanning,Famke Janssen,Elisabeth ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The movie pretends to play out on the psychological effect of grief, which here came from the death of the mother.
		The movie plays out fairly predictably, in the sense that you can tell who is going to die and who isn't.
		If you are looking for a movie that would put you in the edge of your seat in every single minute for 100 minutes or so, this is one of those.
	www.amazon.com /Hide-Seek-Widescreen-John-Polson/dp/B00092ZLSK (2374 words)

	MovieFreak.com - "Hide and Seek" Movie Review
		The new Twentieth Century Fox thriller Hide and Seek is a surprisingly sleek and suspenseful tale of melancholy, paranoia and murder that unfortunately goes so far off the rails during its final third I almost had to laugh.
		For much of Hide and Seek, he underplays David perfectly, letting the audience absorb the growing tension through his ever more restless eyes.
		The publicists beg mercilessly that we critics don’t give away the movie’s supposedly ingenious “twist,” and while I’m more the willing to acquiesce I can’t help but feel audiences are going to come away with that same look of disgust they carried walking out of last summer’s The Village.
	www.moviefreak.com /reviews/h/hideandseek.htm (725 words)

	Hide and Seek
		The writers just decided to make up stuff at the end of the movie that contradicts everything we've already seen just so they could try to explain their stupid plot twist.
		It looks like the writers decided to hide about 2/3rds of the way through, and nobody bothered to seek out good writers to finish the script.
		Hide and Seek is an effective thriller for about an hour.
	www.themoviemark.com /moviereviews/hideandseek.asp (1285 words)

	Hide and Seek review (2005) Robert De Niro - Qwipster's Movie Reviews
		The problem with this little bit of trickery isn’t just that it is redundant and tired, but that once all of the cards are revealed, the glaring plot holes run through your mind for the remainder of the film.
		The main reason why it doesn’t work is due to the fact that the most bizarre set of coincidences, as well as the most befuddling character motivations, are necessary in order for this film to come close to working, and even then it makes very little sense from a practical standpoint.
		Despite quality actors, Hide and Seek proves that some films are better off staying hidden.
	www.qwipster.net /hideandseek.htm (477 words)

	Movie Review - Hide and Seek
		But one might think that hiding her remarkable acting talents would be a bit more difficult.
		The performances in Hide and Seek are the best things about the film.
		All in all, Hide and Seek would be better suited as a legendary ghost story told to gullible little children around the campfire, than as a horror plot for a major motion picture.
	www.franksreelreviews.com /reviews/2005/hideandseek.htm (710 words)

	Hollywood Gothique: Hide and Seek (2005) Review
		This mechanical construction robs HIDE AND SEEK of any genuine impact, reminding us once again that the surprise ending of Hitchcock's PSYCHO works because, in retrospect, it is integral to the story.
		With its slick production values and solid cast, HIDE AND SEEK cannot help generating a few scares, but by the end the misguided story-telling has undermined any attempt to create a solid, serious thriller.
		In spite of this, the audio commentary continually insists on how good the scenes are ("I like this scene," "There's nothing wrong with this scene," etc), expressing regret that they had to be removed to speed up pacing; at least director Polson seems aware that many of the scenes were redundant.
	www.hollywoodgothique.com /hideandseek2005.html (1056 words)

	Hide And Seek Movie, Review, Cast for Hide And Seek \| TVGuide.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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	SPLICEDwire \| "Hide and Seek" movie review (2005) "Hide & Seek" review, John Polson, Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning
		Hide and Seek movie review, John Polson, Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen, Dylan Baker, Robert John Burke, Amy Irving, Elisabeth Shue, Melissa Leo.
		If the ridiculous title and the cheap emotional flmail of putting a pretty little girl in peril aren't enough to tip you off that "Hide and Seek" is a rotten horror movie, then describing its myriad of other deficiencies may be a waste of time.
		While Fanning gives such a perfectly frightened performance that it's hard not to wonder what's wrong with her Hollywood stage-parents for letting her take such a role in such a movie, De Niro seems to be phoning it in as her clueless pop.
	www.splicedonline.com /05reviews/hideseek.html (294 words)

	Hide And Seek (2005) movie review at Real Movie News
		In the case of “Hide and Seek,” point B doesn't even follow sensibly from point A, so it feels like it's cheating, trying to do less work to justify its resolution.
		She acts the way she acts (i.e., creepy and disturbed) just to put the audience at unease, and whether or not it works for her character doesn't seem to be an issue.
		This is because the movie can easily fall back on the "trauma excuse" to explain her actions.
	www.realmovienews.com /reviews/1794 (751 words)

	calendarlive.com: MOVIE REVIEW - 'Hide and Seek'
		The year's first laugh-out-loud-funny thriller, "Hide and Seek," owes much to Stephen King and not a little to the perilous path of being too self-referential.
		Unfortunately, a far more frequent occurrence in "Hide and Seek" is inadvertent laughter at the film's silly dialogue and the dunderheaded actions of its characters.
		It's really Fanning's film anyway, allowing her to add a gothic layer to the preternatural children she played in "I Am Sam," "Man on Fire" and the sci-fi miniseries "Taken." Any campiness is strictly the result of John Polson's direction.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-et-hide28jan28,2,173674.story (621 words)

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