| The Impossible |
|
| Directed by |
J.A. Bayona |
| Produced by |
Álvaro Augustin
Belen Atienza
Enrique López Lavigne |
| Written by |
Sergio G. Sánchez |
| Starring |
Naomi Watts
Ewan McGregor
Tom Holland |
| Music by |
Fernando Velázquez |
| Cinematography |
Óscar Faura |
| Editing by |
Elena Ruiz |
| Studio |
Apaches Entertainment
Telecinco Cinema |
| Distributed by |
Warner Bros. (Spain)
Summit Entertainment
(United States) |
| Release date(s) |
- 9 September 2012 (TIFF)
- 11 October 2012 (Spain)
|
| Running time |
113 minutes[1] |
| Country |
Spain |
| Language |
English |
| Budget |
$45 million[2] |
| Box office |
$60,339,000[3] |
The film marks the second collaboration between Watts and McGregor after appearing together in the 2005 film Stay.
Contents
- 1 Plot
- 2 Cast
- 3 Production
- 4 Release
- 5 Reception
- 5.1 Critical response
- 5.2 Response from tsunami victims
- 5.3 Box office performance
- 6 Music
- 7 Awards
- 8 References
- 9 External links
|
Plot
The film tells the true story of a Spanish family, played by Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor, and their three children. It starts as the family begins their Christmas vacation in Thailand,
with the intention of spending a few days at a tropical paradise
resort. However, their idyllic vacation is interrupted on the morning of December 26, 2004, when a devastating tsunami
interrupts their relaxation and destroys the coastal zone. The family
is separated in surviving the apocalypse, and they begin a desperate
search to reunite.
Cast
- Naomi Watts as Maria
- Ewan McGregor as Henry
- Tom Holland as Lucas
- Samuel Joslin as Thomas
- Oaklee Pendergast as Simon
- Geraldine Chaplin
- Marta Etura
- Simon Blyberg as Ferdinand
Production
The film is a co-production between the Spanish companies Apaches Entertainment and Telecinco Cinema. The crew consists of the same key people who made The Orphanage, including director, writer, production manager, cinematographer, composer, and editor.[4]
Principal photography began August 23, 2010 in Alicante, Spain, and continued in October in Thailand.[5][6]
Release
Warner Bros. released the film in Spain on October 11, 2012. The United States distribution rights were pre-bought by Summit Entertainment.[5] A teaser trailer was released on December 26, 2011.[7]
After a full-length English-language trailer was released on August 20,
2012, a United States release date was confirmed by Summit of December
21, 2012.[8]
Reception
Critical response
Early reviews for the film were positive, with much praise going to
the performances of Watts, McGregor and newcomer Tom Holland. Review
aggregator Rotten Tomatoes
reports that 81% of critics have given the film a positive review based
on 79 reviews, with an average rating of 7.2/10. It currently has an
83% rating with the audience.[9] At Metacritic,
which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from
mainstream critics, the film currently holds an average score of 75,
based on 29 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews."[10]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times
gave the film a perfect four star rating, praising the performances of
Watts and McGregor, as well as the direction by Bayona. He would go on
to call it "one of the best films of the year".
Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter
gave the film a perfectly positive review, praising the performances of
the two leading stars, stating that "Watts packs a huge charge of
emotion as the battered, ever-weakening Maria whose tears of pain and
fear never appear fake or idealized. McGregor, cut and streaked with
excessive blood he seems too distraught to wash away, keeps the tension
razor-sharp as he pursues his family in a vast, shattered landscape."
About the film itself, she added: "The Impossible is one of the
most emotionally realistic disaster movies in recent memory -- and
certainly one of the most frightening in its epic re-creation of the
catastrophic 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami."[11]
Justin Chang of Variety
magazine also gave the film a perfectly positive review, praising
Barona's directing and Sánchez's writing: "Collaborating again after
their impressive 2007 debut feature, The Orphanage,
Bayona and Sanchez get many things right here, starting with their
decision to eschew a more panoramic view of the disaster to follow one
family's journey from start to finish." About the performances of the
main cast members, he added: "Watts has few equals at conveying physical
and emotional extremis, something she again demonstrates in a mostly
bedridden role, and McGregor, in one of his better recent performances,
manages to turn a simple phone call home into a small aria of
heartbreak. Holland, in his live-action bigscreen debut, is wonderful as
a kind, somewhat short-tempered kid who still has plenty to learn,
setting the tone for similarly heartrending turns by young Joslin and
Pendergast."[12]
Damon Wise of The Guardian
gave the film four stars out of five. He also praised the performances,
stating that "as Maria, Watts is both brave and vulnerable, and her
scenes with the young Lucas (the excellent Tom Holland) are among the
film's best, with adult and child now unexpected equals, the mother
humbled, the son rising to the challenge. McGregor, meanwhile, gives one
of his best performances as the sad and desperate Henry, trying to play
the hero, the provider, while knowing his cause is almost certainly
lost." About the film, he added: "Part of the appeal of this affecting
and powerful drama is that it puts the viewer right in the moment at
every stage, using authentic locations and tsunami survivors to hammer
home the reality of this tragedy."[13] Eric Kohn of IndieWire
gave the film a "B-" grade, and stated that the film "suffers from the
greater problem of emphasizing a feel-good plot within the context of
mass destruction."[14]
Response from tsunami victims
The London Daily Mail
reported that British survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami felt
"horrified" and "ambushed" and were reduced to tears by the film's
trailer, which was screened prior to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Tsunami Support UK, a support group for survivors of the tsunami, lobbied to have the trailer screened with a warning notice beforehand.[15]
Box office performance
In Spain, the film was released on October 11, 2012, and opened in
638 theaters, grossing $11,569,306 on its opening weekend, ranking #1
with a per theater average of $18,134.[16] That is the highest-grossing opening weekend ever for a film in Spain.[17] On its second weekend, the film remained on #1 and grossed $9,016,065 with a per theater average of $14,022.[18] By its third weekend, it remained once again on #1 and made $5,768,184 with a per theater average of $9,098.[19]
sumber : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Impossible_%282012_film%29
