Gothika (Widescreen Edition) | 
| Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Actors: Halle Berry, Penelope Cruz, Robert Downey Jr., Charles S. Dutton, John Carroll Lynch
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $12.98
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Rating:  230 reviews
Sales Rank: 16982
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dubbed, Dvd, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: WARD28380D
UPC: 085392838028
EAN: 0085392838028
ASIN: B0001FR3IQ
Theatrical Release Date: November 21, 2003
Release Date: March 23, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
A BRILLIANT & RESPECTED CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGIST, DR MIRANDA GREY, IS AN EXPERT AT KNOWING WHAT IS RATIONAL. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF HER HUSBAND, SHE TREATS DANGEROUSLY DISTURBED PATIENTS. BUT HER LIFE IS THRUST INTO TERRIFYING JEOPARDY AFTER A CRYPTIC ENCOUNTER WITH A MYSTERIOUS YOUNG GIRL LEADS TO A NIGHTMARE.
Amazon.com
The title of Gothika prepares you for a spooky, atmospheric thriller with an emphasis on supernatural mystery. The best way to appreciate the movie itself is to understand that it's a waking nightmare that needn't make sense in the realm of sanity. Making a flashy Hollywood debut after his superior 2000 thriller Crimson Rivers, French actor-director Mathieu Kassovitz pours on the dark and stormy atmosphere, trapping a competent psychologist (Halle Berry) in the prison ward where she treated inmates (including Penelope Cruz) until she was committed for killing her husband (Charles S. Dutton), who was also her boss. Did a car crash cause her to suffer ghostly delusions, or is a young girl--dead for four years--sending clues from beyond the grave? Berry has to prove her innocence while Kassovitz keeps everything--including the viewer and costar Robert Downey Jr. (as Berry's colleague)--in the dark about just where the nonsensical plot is leading. There's a better movie in here somewhere, among the catwalks and crannies of the impressive prison-castle setting, and Berry gives 100% in a performance that's consistent with the movie's overwrought tone. Attentive viewers will identify the killer early on, and the ending is anticlimactic, but Gothika serves up a few good shocks for ghost-story connoisseurs. --Jeff Shannon
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 GREAT DVD! May 17, 2009
Monica Jimenez (Los Angeles, CA)
This "used" movie looks and works like a brand new one! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! shipping was great as well!
 Disc Freezes & 2 Movies!?!? March 19, 2009
Janine Hansen
It got here in plenty of time, but by the time I watched it, I was sad knowing it was too late to return it. The disc froze the end of one chapter into the beginning of the next at a real integral part of the movie! I also wasn't expecting two movies in one when I got Queen of the Damned on the flip side, but hey I'll never complain about a free movie...
 Horrible November 21, 2008
S. messer (MI)
The story has a great concept i'll admit but the acting and such are just bad. why amazon recommended this to me i don't know.
 Makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up even afterward November 6, 2008
R. Kyle (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Gothika" doesn't seem to be a fitting title for this film, but the story truly is gothic. After a car crash, Dr. Miranda Grey (Berry) awakens a prisoner in the forensic mental hospital where she formerly worked. She's accused of killing her husband and boss (Dutton), but cannot recall.
This is a very atmospheric and tense thriller. One of Berry's best performances to date and haunting to say the least. Strongly recommend you do not watch this on a dark and stormy night.
Rebecca Kyle, November 2008
Nonsense. Neither scary nor suspenseful. February 16, 2008
Cestmoi
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
The plot is nonsense. The movie is nether scary nor suspenseful.
It's a waste of time and money.
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