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Seconds

1966

John Frankenheimer

Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph, Will Geer ...

7.1

3,555

Sci-Fi. Mystery. Drama Arthur Hamilton is a middle aged New York banker living in Scarsdale. He's married with a grown daughter he rarely sees anymore. He is generally disengaged from everything in his life. Based on a series of telephone calls he receives from his supposedly deceased friend Charlie Evans, Arthur is drawn into a company that provides him with a second chance in life. Initially resisting this opportunity, 'they' convince him that he has little ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	TV Guide	"The film features a surprisingly good performance by Rock Hudson, an impeccable supporting cast and stunning cinematography by screen veteran James Wong Howe."	POS
Canada	Liam Lacey The Globe and Mail	"John Frankenheimer created this eccentrically brilliant thriller, an exercise in mid-sixties paranoia."	POS
United States	Mike Clark USA Today	"This cult movie for the ages suggests a Twilight Zone episode taken to gruesome extremes."	POS
United States	Nathan Rabin AV Club	"As a portrayal of identity and alienation in suburban America, it's about a hundred times as creepy and sincere as David Lynch's thematically similar Lost Highway."	POS
United States	Bill Weber Slant	"A beautiful x-ray of middle-aged existential crisis"	POS
United States	Entertainment Weekly	"The technical dazzle can’t make up for the boring, unsympathetic characters. With no one to root for, this arty, humorless film ends up pretentiously empty."	NEU
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"US suburbia boredom is treated in an original manner in this cross between a sci-fi opus, a thriller, a suspense pic and a parable on certain aspects of American middle-class life."	POS

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