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Trauma
2004
Awakening from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben’s (Colin Firth) world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben is out of hospital and, attempting to rebuild his life, he moves home and is befriended by Charlotte (Mena Suvari), his beautiful young neighbour. But all is not what it .. Read more
| Starring | Colin Firth, Mena Suvari, Naomie Harris, Brenda Fricker |
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| Director | Marc Evans |
| Genres | Thriller |
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Trauma
Awakening from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben’s (Colin Firth) world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben is out of hospital and, attempting to rebuild his life, he moves home and is befriended by Charlotte (Mena Suvari), his beautiful young neighbour. But all is not what it seems and, haunted by visions of his dead wife, Ben starts to lose his grip on reality…
| Starring | Colin Firth, Mena Suvari, Naomie Harris, Brenda Fricker |
|---|---|
| Director | Marc Evans |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 30 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 21 Feb 2005 Production year: 2004 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (6)
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Car-crash victim Colin Firth awakens from a coma to learn that his wife died in the same accident. The grieving and troubled man is befriended by a new neighbour (Mena Suvari), but his tenuous grip on reality is further threatened when he is questioned by the police about the murder of a pop diva. My Little Eye director Marc Evans's slow and confusing psychological thriller suffers from a fragmented screenplay that's overloaded with enigmatic dialogue, while the uncharacteristically pedestrian direction does little to obscure the “surprise” ending. On the plus side, Firth acts like it all actually matters, cleverly modulating his performance to support the film's premise, no matter how dense it becomes. Ultimately tiresome and timid, this is one genre jigsaw puzzle that's not worth solving.
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A psychological thriller in which reality and fantasy merge until only confusion remains.
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70 out of 80 people found this review helpful
Marc Evans: go to your room....
...and think about what you have done. My Little Eye was a truly inventive and fresh little film. This is pretty much the complete opposite in every conceivable way. Trauma opened with Colin Firth coming out of a Coma and continued until the (long overdue) end by driving me into one. Marc Evans is quite clearly capable of far greater things. I suggest he writes out 100 lines 'I will never Traumatise the audience again'. I may well be cured of my insomnia.
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
waste of time
i was looking forward to this film, boy what a waste of an evening. it didn't grip me from the start nor did the ending do anything for me. at one stage i was going to turn it off but stuck with it in case it got better, it didn't. it got 1 star because thats the minimum, not that it deserves a mark that high
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