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Release
Date: |
09/01/2006
- Nationwide |
Run
Time: |
1
hr. 46 min. |
MPAA
Rating: |
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| For
disturbing images and violence, language and thematic issues. |
Genre: |
Drama |
Starring: |
Nicolas
Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Molly Parker, Leelee Sobieski, Kate Beahan |
Director(s): |
Neil
LaBute |
Producer(s): |
Nicolas
Cage, Randall Emmett, Norman Golightly, Avi Lerner, Joanne Sellar |
Writer(s): |
Neil
LaBute, Anthony Shaffer |
Studio: |
Warner
Bros. |
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| Synopsis |
| Out patrolling a California
highway, police officer Edward Malus 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. Edwards 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 fiancée,
Willow, 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 the only person she trusts to
help relocate 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, is
bound together by arcane traditions and a pagan festival known as
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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