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La caja

Título original: The Box
  • 2009
  • B
  • 1h 55min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
5.6/10
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Cameron Diaz and James Marsden in La caja (2009)
A young couple is gifted with a mysterious box that promises them a handsome windfall with deadly consequences.
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Una pequeña caja de madera llega a la puerta de un matrimonio que sabe que si la abren ganarán un millón de dólares, y una persona a la que desconocen morirá.Una pequeña caja de madera llega a la puerta de un matrimonio que sabe que si la abren ganarán un millón de dólares, y una persona a la que desconocen morirá.Una pequeña caja de madera llega a la puerta de un matrimonio que sabe que si la abren ganarán un millón de dólares, y una persona a la que desconocen morirá.

  • Dirección
    • Richard Kelly
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    • Richard Kelly
    • Richard Matheson
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    • Cameron Diaz
    • James Marsden
    • Frank Langella
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
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      • Richard Kelly
    • Guionistas
      • Richard Kelly
      • Richard Matheson
    • Elenco
      • Cameron Diaz
      • James Marsden
      • Frank Langella
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    • 47Metascore
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    • Premios
      • 1 premio ganado y 6 nominaciones en total

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    Cameron Diaz
    Cameron Diaz
    • Norma Lewis
    James Marsden
    James Marsden
    • Arthur Lewis
    Frank Langella
    Frank Langella
    • Arlington Steward
    James Rebhorn
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    • Norm Cahill
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    • Dick Burns
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    • Walter Lewis
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    • Clymene Steward
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    • Martin Teague
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    7rivertam26

    you have no idea what to expect...

    The creator of Donnie Darko brings you a twilight zone themed tale of the oddest fashion. The film centers on a middle aged young couple living paycheck to paycheck in 1976. One day a mysterious box appears with a red button. Later on that day a spooky gentleman shows up and tells them that they have the choice to press the button and receive a million dollars but someone they don't know will die. It's a disturbing and provocative question suspensefully outlined in the trailer and TV spots. But let it be known that you just don't know what your in for until you see it. At times pretentious and a bit melodramatic the film is ultimately effective because of it's good performances and intriguing subject matter. It would be unfair to ruin any of the plot twists for you but lets just say the film will deliver on the aspects you expect it to and not completely fulfill others it begins to outline. There's a lot of apparent symbolism and subtext in the film which is both interesting and annoying as it wasn't so evident in his other superior film Donnie Darko. There isn't too much more to say without ruining the film for you. it's meant to inspire lots of cafe chatter afterwards. However, i'd also like to say It's shot well and has an appropriately aged look to it and it's worth a watch. Check it out.
    8trickygirlb

    I liked it.....

    After I heard how terrible this film was, I really wasn't expecting much. I almost didn't even rent it, but I am glad I did. I love Donnie Darko and I think with The Box, Kelly has gone back to the Darko style of writing and directing. I am not sure why it received so many bad reviews, maybe because like Donnie Darko it was too cerebral for the mainstream. It's not a movie you can do three things and watch, you have to pay attention to the little details. I do feel there are missing pieces that weren't explained, but that could be the way the film was edited and may come out later in a directors cut edition, or it could be Kelly's way of keeping the audience guessing. I can see how this movie wouldn't appeal to the masses, especially since it is a cautionary tale of morals and ethics, but if you liked Donnie Darko, you will probably enjoy The Box. I can see this having a cult following like Donnie Darko.

    Also I am not a Cameron Diaz fan, but I think she did a great job. I had heard awful things about her performance in this, but in my opinion this was one of her better roles.
    6manicman84

    creepy, strange and overall sinister, yet not very coherent or focused

    Richard Kelly's latest supernatural thriller "The Box" is creepy, strange and overall sinister, yet not very coherent or focused. One's opinion on the movie depends on whether one accepts its peculiar concept or not. I must say that I was initially enthralled by the movie's strange old-fashioned tone resembling sci-fi movies from the 1970s Kelly pays homage to. The movie handles its mystery rather well with Frank Langella's uniquely scary performance being the obvious highlight. Given that, the movie falters at the end when its otherwise intriguing concept gets bogged down by the series of ridiculous events that feel as if they were taken from a different movie. While The Box tends to approach the wrong territory and is rather unfocused, one can't help but acknowledge Kelly's ability to attract the viewer's attention. His obsessions may not be shared by very many people, but he manifests them in a richly textured manner. That's just enough to enjoy this movie despite its shortcomings. 6.5/10 (B-)
    6Movie_Muse_Reviews

    Over-ambitious "Box" leaves too many elements to consider

    As a fan of science fiction allegory, social experiment, "The Twilight Zone" and the thriller genre -- no less all those elements combined -- Richard Kelly and his film "The Box" should've at least won me over, but it doesn't. It can't even decide if it wants to remain completely mysterious or explicitly tell us what's going on and any film that has to contemplate that is too complex for its own good.

    With any story this daring, there's potential for something meaningful. "The Box" does let you glimpse it and draw a few interesting conclusions, but through intellectual jail bars placed before our eyes by the myriad of plot contrivances. In other words, too many plot elements exist in in the film that keep us from ever putting our mind around what Kelly is trying to say. Although he starts simply by focusing on a couple (James Marsden and Cameron Diaz) and their child making an ethical decision, the scope widens to include everything from Arthur C. Clarke references to mindless drones to some indiscernible notion of the afterlife.

    This beginning piece is based on Richard Matheson's story "Button, Button," which was a short story turned into a "Twilight Zone" episode. In "The Box," a mysterious man with a half-burned face played by Frank Langella drops off a box with a button in it at the doorstep of Norma and Arthur Lewis and their son Walter. He later comes back and gives Norma a proposition: don't press the button and nothing happens, or press the button and receive one million dollars and subsequently someone, anywhere in the world, whom they don't know will die.

    Well, Norma, a teacher, just lost her teacher tuition discount for her son and Arthur's application to be an astronaut was just denied and despite living in a nice looking house in Richmond, Virginia they apparently have no money, so it's not hard to figure out ultimately what they'll do. After all, don't press the button and there's no film -- not that some people who sit through this would've minded that in retrospect.

    As with his cult hit "Donnie Darko," Kelly keeps "The Box" fascinatingly creepy. It starts with the colors, the classic string soundtrack from the band Arcade Fire and some peculiar Easter eggs and moves on to more jarring occurrences. There is never a point where things get so absurd that you don't care what happens in the end, even if there's a chance the end could be terribly unsatisfying. It's one of few saving graces for "The Box," but perhaps even this is only for those intrigued by high concept sci-fi mystery that parallels human nature no matter how vague.

    When any thriller collapses somewhere after the midway point, you can usually blame the fact that too many occurrences in need of explaining were written in order for the writer to achieve his desired end. When James Marsden gets hit in a car by a truck and comes out of a giant light warehouse and that ultimately never gets explained, its degrading to the viewer.

    The real trouble with "The Box" is how ambitiously it tries to combine the ideas of intelligent life/space exploration with religious notions of life, death and what might come after as well as numerous other elements too many and too difficult to explain. Kelly found that balance between time travel and inter-relationship drama in "Donnie Darko" but "The Box" implodes on itself by severing its little social experiment from the characters with too much unexplained phenomena.

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    5evmcelroy

    Complicated...

    I read the original Richard Matheson short story (Button, Button) that this movie is based on when it was first published in the June 1970 Playboy Magazine. The short story was a relatively simple morality tale. Usually I am not one to compare source material with movies. They are totally separate animals and frequently the movie version is a big improvement on the original material.

    In this case, the two cannot even be compared - even the plot is barely recognizable in the movie version. That would be fine if the movie plot were an improvement. Instead we have a mush mash of hints, bloody noses and awkward special effects.

    I guess it is still a morality tale, but an overly complicated one. The performers do the best they can.

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    • Trivia
      The main characters, Norma Lewis and Arthur Lewis, were based on director Richard Kelly's parents. His mother also suffered a crippled foot after an X-Ray mishap; his father worked for NASA and co-designed the camera used on the Viking Mars Landers (as in the movie).
    • Errores
      911 emergency services weren't available in Richmond, VA, in 1976.
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      Martin Teague: Sir? If you don't mind my asking... why a box?

      Arlington Steward: Your home is a box. Your car is a box on wheels. You drive to work in it. You drive home in it. You sit in your home, staring into a box. It erodes your soul, while the box that is your body inevitably withers... then dies. Whereupon it is placed in the ultimate box, to slowly decompose.

      Martin Teague: It's quite depressing, if you think of it that way.

      Arlington Steward: Don't think of it that way... think of it as a temporary state of being.

    • Conexiones
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The Men Who Stare at Goats/The Fourth Kind/The Box/A Christmas Carol (2009)
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      Written by Stephan Sechi (as Stephan M. Sechi)

      Performed by Stephan Sechi

      Courtesy of Crucial Music Corporation

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 11 de diciembre de 2009 (México)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
    • Sitio oficial
      • Warner Bros.
    • Idioma
      • Inglés
    • También se conoce como
      • The Box
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Boston Public Library - 700 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos
    • Productoras
      • Warner Bros.
      • Radar Pictures
      • Media Rights Capital (MRC)
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    • Presupuesto
      • USD 30,000,000 (estimado)
    • Total en EE. UU. y Canadá
      • USD 15,051,977
    • Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
      • USD 7,571,417
      • 8 nov 2009
    • Total a nivel mundial
      • USD 33,334,176
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      1 hora 55 minutos
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