Shadowboxer
Knowing herself suffering from a dangerous disease, female killer Rose decides t complete an important contract and then retires to live in peace in the rest of her life. Can her wish turn into the truth?
20 June 1997, New Jersey, USA
16 December 1978, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, USA
14 November 1968, Connellsville, Pennsylvania, USA
8 May 1950, Detroit, Michigan, USA
4 October 1975, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1 November 1988, New Hope, Pennsylvania, USA
13 June 1927, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
6 September 1967, Canton, Ohio, USA
29 July 1973, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
17 February 1981, Los Angeles, California, USA
24 December 1959, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
26 July 1945, Chiswick, London, England, UK
5 February 1963, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
December 30, 2006
Mirren and Gooding are interesting -- and sexy -- to watch together. Once she leaves the film, the picture loses a bit of its uniqueness.
December 30, 2006
That most wonderful of films, the kind that works on every level, but can't be easily pigeonholed.
November 04, 2006
The script can't quite get a grasp on character depth, yet it also can't quite deliver the cheap thrills such a trashy tale might otherwise provide.
July 14, 2007
This cat-and-mouse caper's Swiss cheese plotline is riddled with too many holes to consider this flick as much more than a snuff film.
August 07, 2006
The one thing I'll say about Shadowboxer is that it's never boring. Of course, I could also say that about stepping on crushed glass.
August 26, 2007
The raw materials for a gutsy, gritty, fearless, fascinating thriller are here, but they amount to some intriguing individual parts and not a satisfying, cohesive whole.
August 04, 2006
It ... has an insistently fussy and grandiose production design that mistakes lavish textures, brilliant colors and exotic backdrops for story atmosphere and style.
August 25, 2006
Thumbs down to a movie of such vile and violent temper.
March 01, 2007
Despite assembling a talented cast and crew, Daniels is stymied here by a script that takes itself far too seriously.
August 25, 2006
Gosh, it's almost too bad/good to be true.
August 03, 2006
It tells a story that would fit perfectly in a standard Hollywood action thriller, but it tells it in the grammar and syntax of an art film. The two sensibilities make no sense together.
February 01, 2009
Aaron Spelling may be slapping his forehead, but a few cemetary plots over, 1950's melodrama king Douglas Sirk is smiling.
