Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Film This Week in Film: The Box
Posted by Lindy West on Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:26 PM
Life-ruiner Brendan Kiley gives away all its secrets without so much as a spoiler alert!!!
A middle-class couple in '70s Virginia receives a mysterious present, a box with a button protected by a glass dome. A man with a big hole burned into his face explains the deal: Press the button and you get a million dollars, but somebody you don't know will die. Easy, right? The couple is middle-class with a NASA husband (James Marsden), a Beckett-teaching wife (Cameron Diaz), and an annoyingly smart-ass son (Sam Oz Stone). They're running out of money to send their kid to private school, but it's not like they're starving or anything. And since rule number one in life is Don't Make Deals with Devils, they shouldn't push the button. Of course they push the button, almost casually. Why?
Read the whole spoiler-ridden thing HERE.
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