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| The Wicker Man (Widescreen Unrated/Rated Edition) | 
| Director: Neil Labute
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Beahan, Frances Conroy, Molly Parker
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (225 reviews)
Sales Rank: 17977
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 102 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD110093D
UPC: 085391100935
EAN: 0085391100935
ASIN: B000JYW5DW
Release Date: December 19, 2006
Theatrical Release Date: September 1, 2006
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Description
Out patrolling a California highway, police officer Edward Malus (Nicolas Cage) stops a station wagon to return a little girl's lost doll. Moments later, a runaway truck slams into the station wagon, igniting it into a fiery wreck with the mother and child trapped inside. Edward fails to save them before the car explodes...and then spends months of his life choking down pills to get the image of their faces out of his head. But Edward is about to get a second chance. A desperate letter from his former girlfriend, Willow (Kate Beahan), arrives at his home with no postmark. Willow came into his life and left just as unexpectedly years before. But now, her daughter Rowan has gone missing, and Edward is theonly person she trusts to help locate her. She asks him to come to her home on a private island - Summersisle - a place with its own traditions where people observe a forgotten way of life. Edward seizes the opportunity to make his life right again, and soon finds himself on a seaplane bound for the islands of the Pacific Northwest. But nothing is what it seems on isolated Summersisle, where a culture, dominated by its matriarch Sister Summersisle (Ellen Burstyn), is bound together by arcane traditions and a pagan festival called "the Day of Death and Rebirth." The secretive people of Summersisle only ridicule his investigation, insisting that a child named Rowan never existed there... or if she ever did was no longer alive. But what Edward doesn't know is that Willow's plea for help has invited more into his life than a chance for redemption. In unraveling Summersisle's closely held secrets, Edward is drawn into a web of ancient traditions and murderous deceit, and each step he takes closer to the lost child brings him one step closer to the unspeakable. And one step closer to the Wicker Man.
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Nicolas Cage stars in The Wicker Man as a traumatized police officer investigating a lost girl on a mysterious, mist-shrouded island of imperious women and dimwitted men. Summoned by his ex-fiancee (Kate Beahan, Flightplan, who seems to have borrowed her lips from Angelina Jolie), Edward Malus (Cage, Adaptation.) blusters his way into a closed religious community by flashing his out-of-state badge around and insulting everyone he meets. To describe The Wicker Man any further would deprive viewers of enjoying the staggering ineptness of this absurd remake of the fairly creepy 1973 original. Despite a talented cast (including Ellen Burstyn, Requiem for a Dream, Molly Parker, Deadwood, and Leelee Sobieski, Joy Ride), the performances are uniformly awful, with Cage leading the pack; his overwrought cries of "How'd it get burned?!?" will provoke barks of laughter. Arbitrary wierdness abounds--ranging from animal masks to a body-stocking of bees--in a flailing effort to distract the audience from the narrative running madly off the rails. Maybe writer/director Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men, The Shape of Things) aspired to create a fever dream of male fears about women, but the result is a deformed hybrid of Invasion of the Bee Girls and The Village. A future camp classic. --Bret Fetzer
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 The Wicker Man December 25, 2008
I do not own the movie and will not own it. I saw the movie in the theater. Even though it is based on a true ritual it was still a very bizzare movie. If the reviews could give minus stars then I would give it a negative 1. I just don't think it is worth buying and definately was not worth seeing to begin with. I think Nicholas Cage could have made better time of doing another movie and not wasting his acting experience.
some movies shouldn't be remade December 16, 2008
The original wicker man is a classic b horror movie. With outstanding performances and a good story. This is like a pale shadow of that movie and they didn't even get the stuggle of the lead characters relgious faith against the older and sometimes more dangerous celtic faith , at least on the island he's on. Nick Cage is a excellent actor but he can't even begin to save this movie as it's lost the point of what the original wickerman film focus was. Buy that one. This is a hoot though for people who like bad horror films as it's a really bad horror movie with a higher budget, still the original is a great horror classic so that's not a good thing in this case.
Awful December 9, 2008
The worse movie Ive ever seen.
You truly think it will get better or some kind of trill.
Started to suck and ended as the worse way possible.
It gets one star only because there is no option for zero stars November 27, 2008
Who ever heard of anything like this?
A town in which the men are afraid of the women?
People who actually live in reality and no one else knows that they are there? (As in, government officials.)
A police officer disappears and no one notices? And this is after taking off of work and mixing police and personal business?
I only spent about US$0.30 on this movie (CNY2) and I still sometimes want to slap myself for wasting even that much money. This movie went *straight* into the trash after I viewed it.
The filmmakers should be ashamed. November 3, 2008
If you like seeing films about innocent protagonists being tortured and killed with no sense of justice, this movie is for you. Please do not support this type of filmmaking. It was bad enough that they made this movie the first time. Nicholas Cage and everyone involved with the making of this movie should be ashamed!
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