maggie ( film )
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“maggie” is playing as part of the tribeca film festival. a theatrical release will follow on may 8 .
the film will be released on 24 july. it premiered at the tribeca film festival in april to mixed reviews .
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maggie was shared with an audience for the first time at the 2015 tribeca film festival on wednesday. the film was originally scooped up by lionsgate before its initially - scheduled world premiere at toronto last year .
2015 film credits include: maggie' s plan by rebecca miller, james lapine' s custody and the silent treatment by ira sachs .
maggie screens again at the tribeca film festival on april 25, 9: 30pm. for more information and to purchase tickets, visit the festival' s website. maggie opens in theaters and vod on may 8 .
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raw deal … arnold schwarzenegger and abigail breslin in maggie. photograph: lukas ettlin
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its creepy atmosphere aside ,
maggie
is a slog of the living dead .
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sony pictures classics has set an awards - qualifying december release in the u. s. for “the lady in the van, ” starring maggie smith. the film will premiere as a special presentation at the toronto film festival. “the lady in the van” is a film version of a british play that starred smith. the movie is directed by [ … ]
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as for maggie, i hope it' s as good as i' ve read .
wade brings maggie back to his kansas farm, where he lives with maggie' s stepmother caroline (joely richardson); maggie' s own mother, wade' s first wife, has died years before. wade and caroline' s two other children have been sent to live with caroline' s sister for safety, so that they can look after maggie .
maggie then says
freddy' s dead .
and the credits roll, showing archive footage of all the six films (at the time of the film' s release) .
the film will be directed by commercial director henry hobson. production will commence in the fall .
julianne moore portrays a columbia professor and the wife of ethan hawke’s character in “maggie’s plan. ”
‘she’s wonderful - she’s just kind of destroying my life’ … gerwig and hawke in maggie’s plan .
i' m absolutely thrilled that sony classics will be distributing maggie' s plan. they are an iconic company and the perfect home for this film ,
said miller in a statement .
played the role of wade in the film for $ 0 after falling in love with the script .
miller is also the screenwriter of the feature film proof (2005) adapted from the stage play .
greta gerwig plays a single woman and ethan hawke a married educator in rebecca miller’s “maggie’s plan. ”
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“in maggie, i am the everyman … dealing with the most basic concerns – protecting his family. ”
arnold schwarzenegger is turning to the zombie world, signing on to star in and produce “ maggie. ”
as part of the deal, the film will not screen at the toronto fest, as had been planned .
written and directed by miller - - with a script based on a story by karen rinaldi - - the comedy - drama premiered at the 2015 toronto international film festival and will screen soon at the new york film festival .
according to box office mojo, maggie will come out in theaters on may 8th from roadside attractions. directed by hobson off a black list script by john scott 3, maggie stars schwarzenegger, breslin, and joely richardson .
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the film also features bill hader, maya rudolph, travis fimmel, ida rohatyn, wallace shawn and mina sundwall .
, is intent on living out a meticulously planned life. to conquer that goal, maggie controls the lives of others to help meet her needs. writer / director rebecca miller’s film is tonally the complete opposite of its lead – true to life, it’s unpredictable and a bit of a mess. and that’s what makes maggie’s plan such a delight .
maya rudolph and bill hader play a married couple who are friends with ms. gerwig’s character in “maggie’s plan. ”
it’s most prestigious star would have to be dame maggie smith, who played violet crawley, dowager countess of grantham .
wade brings maggie home to his wife / maggie' s stepmother caroline (joely richardson) and her siblings bobby and molly (aiden and carsen flowers). the children are sent to stay with their aunt until maggie' s issue is dealt with. she talks to bobby, who more or less knows what' s going to happen to her .
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after a couple of weeks seeking out his teenage daughter maggie, wade finds her in the quarantine wing of a hospital. maggie has been infected by a lethal outbreak that transforms the victim into a zombie. wade' s friend dr. vern kaplan releases maggie to spend her last days with wade and her family. her stepmother caroline asks wade to take their little kids to her sister' s house to keep them safe. while maggie is slowly transformed, wade stays with her protecting maggie. but dr. vern warns him that the moment that he will have to take an ultimate decision is closer .
arnold schwarzenegger' s
maggie ,
an indie zombie drama shot in new orleans last fall, has landed a distribution deal, and on the eve of what would have been its premiere at next month' s toronto international film festival. according to deadline, lionsgate acquired director henry hobson' s film this week, with an eye for an early 2015 release .
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baumbach’s muse and frequent collaborator, greta gerwig, also gives the film a feeling of familiarity as the title character. we’ve seen her play a version of maggie many times before; it is her bread and butter. maggie is guileless and enthusiastic—one sharp - tongued character aptly describes her as “a little bit stupid”—which gives a purity to her fumbling attempts toward maturity and stability .
schwarzenegger is showing no signs of slowing down as he continues ramping up his film career following his seven years as california governor .
there is potential for a touching film about goodbyes here, but debutant director henry hobson doesn' t really pull it off .
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the directorial debut of henry hobson, “maggie” is a zombie drama about what happens to a rural midwest family in the wake of their eldest daughter being bitten. that inky black bite marks maggie (“zombieland’s” abigail breslin) for death. in her final days, maggie’s father (schwarzenegger) reminisces with her, cares for her, and wonders what to do when she turns from his firstborn into one of the walking dead. the law demands maggie be turned over to the police for confinement, and eventual euthanasia, but family man and farmer wade struggles with the cruel possibility that it might be kinder to put down maggie himself .
it’s a bold tonal decision, to be sure, but—not unlike the plan in “maggie’s plan”—it doesn’t quite turn out as expected .
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galt niederhoffer' s the romantics, which premiered at 2010' s sundance film festival, marked levy' s third trip to utah. in 2008, he launched the first series of green porno which also screened at the toronto and berlin international film festivals. between parts 1 and 2 of the green porno series, levy lensed wendy and lucy. the film earned rave reviews for its cinematography after opening at the cannes film festival. in 2007 levy provided cinematography fellow service to the sundance institute director' s lab .
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as a film, “maggie” feels slight. set after the rise of the “necro - ambulist” virus, the film tells the story of wade, a father (schwarzenegger) who finds his daughter maggie (abigail breslin) after she has run away. unfortunately, at some point, she was attacked and bitten by someone with the virus, so by the time he finds her, it' s too late. she' s been infected, and doctors inform wade that she will turn at some point in the next few weeks, and when that happens, his options are limited. he can turn her in to the government quarantine, he can give her the same “cocktail” drug they administer in the quarantine, or he can find a way to kill her quick. there is no good option, and from the beginning of the film, it' s just a slow sad countdown to that moment where maggie isn' t maggie anymore .
last year, some eyebrows were raised when the zombie movie “ maggie, ” originally scheduled to premiere as part of the midnight madness lineup at the toronto international film festival, was pulled at the last minute, when lionsgate acquired the movie just before the fest. and while some wondered if it was an indication of the film’s quality, it was actually a canny move on behalf of the studio. “maggie” is not your standard zombie movie, and while it tantalizingly puts action hero arnold schwarzenegger into the lead role, the film is actually low on setpieces, and instead is a ponderous, sombre take on the genre that may leave those looking for a traditional horror flick disappointed .
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maggie is a us horror drama about a young woman returning to her family home after she' s been infected with an incurable disease .
caa is repping domestic rights to “maggie. ” lotus, which was formed this year by execs from inferno, is selling international rights .
the most moving part of maggie is a brief sequence during which maggie gets to spend one last night with a group of high school friends, including trent (bryce romero), a guy she had a relationship with who’s now also infected. whereas all of the moments between maggie and wade feel rather monotonous, seeing an infected maggie try to have some fun with her healthy high school friends is incredibly refreshing. there’s no forgetting the fact that maggie is on her way out, but getting to see her hang out with her best friend allie (raeden greer) and share one last tender moment with trent makes her two subsequent scenes with them the most effective tearjerkers of the movie .
most of maggie is so dark you can barely make out the zombies or the humans. it also moves more slowly than the ghouls .
it completely undercuts a later scene in which maggie meets up with her friends, and one of them, who’s infected and a bit further along than her, casts doubt on whether quarantine is a place anyone should want to go and generally illustrates the internal struggles of the film’s characters in a much less expository way than all the over - intense doctor lectures. if things had seemed more normal after maggie first got infected, the scene would be a great turning point and a way to illustrate the challenges maggie’s family will soon face without over - explaining them .
wade tries to create of his home a fortress to protect them from the outside world, but that becomes increasingly difficult. wade has to kill a couple of neighbors who have turned into zombies, and the local police threaten to forcibly take maggie into custody. still, wade tries to preserve some sense of normalcy for maggie, as they reminisce about her late mother, and maggie spends a night hanging out with old friends. but even while with her friends, maggie is reminded of what awaits her; her boyfriend has also been infected with the virus .
when maggie finds the trapped fox, she returns to the house to get a gun. the closeup of the gun on the mantle reveals it to be a double barrel shotgun, but when maggie takes it from the mantle it is in fact a. 22 bolt action rifle .
the film tells the story of a deadly zombie virus that has put a plague on the world. when maggie, a vivacious young woman becomes infected, her father brings her home to let her be with their family. as maggie’s condition worsens, their relationship is tested, a father’s love holding on stronger than the disease. this heart - wrenching twist on the zombie apocalypse puts a human face on an inexplicable horror .
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reviewed at tribeca film festival (spotlight), april 22, 2015. mpaa rating: pg - 13. running time: 94 min .
summary maggie is a us horror drama about a young woman returning to her family home after she' s been infected with an incurable disease .
maggie' s condition starts to get worse. she goes into the woods and encounters a small fox. she later runs back into her home with her face caked in blood. maggie mentions the fox to her parents. wade goes into the woods and finds the fox in pain, and he shoots it. caroline urges wade to call the authorities in to take maggie away. a couple of officers do show up later, but wade fights one of them. maggie comes in and assures them that she is fine so that they won' t take her away .
he shot maggie' s plan for director rebecca miller, starring greta gerwig, ethan hawke, julianne moore, bill hader and maya rudolph .
the film tells the story of a deadly zombie virus that has put a plague on the world. when maggie, a vivacious young woman becomes infected, her father brings her home to let her be with their family. as maggie’s condition worsens, their relationship is tested, a father’s love holding on stronger than the disease. this heart - wrenching twist on the zombie apocalypse puts a human face on an inexplicable horror .
hobson, 34, born in salisbury, wiltshire, has no film connections in his family. his father is a university lecturer, his mother a radiographer. he could barely believe it as he watched the footage produced during the film’s 25 - day shoot. schwarzenegger is in almost every scene .
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cut to a few years later. john has left georgette and married maggie. the two have a daughter together but also split time with john’s kids with georgette (mina sundwall and jackson frazer). they seem happy—and maggie is even thriving amid the chaos of balancing work and mothering three kids—but it doesn’t take long for john to wallow in misery once more. all this time later, he still hasn’t finished the behemoth book that brought him and maggie together in the first place. this makes maggie begin to question her own happiness—and question whether she even wants to be with john anymore .
arnold schwarzenegger and abigial breslin are being joined in new orleans by joely richardson as production begins this month on the independently produced zombie drama
maggie .
the film has been in pre - production for several weeks, with principal photography under way and expected to last through the end of october .
breslin’s portrayal of the film’s title role, maggie, marks her second venture into walking dead territory, following zombieland, the 2009 feature in which breslin teamed with a rag tag group of survivors to fend off zombies in a post - apocalyptic world. the award - winning actress was last seen in the weinstein company’s award - winning film august: osage county, as well as the recent films, enders game, the call, perfect sisters, and new year’s eve. her latest film final girl, directed by tyler shields with wes bently and alexander ludwig, is set for release in 2015 .
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the film is currently available via on demand. also starring academy award® nominee abigail breslin (best supporting actress, little miss sunshine) and joely richardson (tv’s “nip / tuck, ” the girl with the dragon tattoo), maggie follows the outbreak of a deadly zombie virus that sweeps the nation .
as maggie advances toward maternity — but before she is actually pregnant — a work mix - up conspires to introduce her to john (ethan hawke), a part - time professor who asks maggie to read the first chapter of his novel. that should be a warning — isn’t there some office at city hall that distributes cautionary pamphlets about guys with novels that supposedly need reading? — but maggie falls for him anyway. also, he’s married .
her plan is derailed when she meets john (ethan hawke), a hunky new adjunct professor at her place of work, the new college. over some chilly outdoor coffee dates, maggie gives john feedback on a novel he’s writing, and learns of his unhappy marriage to georgette. “she’s wonderful - she’s just kind of destroying my life, ” john says of georgette to maggie. it isn’t long before maggie and john spark up an affair .
“ as the nation reels from a lethal virus that turns its victims into zombies, wade’s (schwarzenegger) daughter maggie (breslin) has been infected. now, as maggie’s condition worsens, wade will stop at nothing to protect her from the authorities seeking to kill her to eradicate the virus. ”
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it actually plays very much as a first draft; nothing about it is necessarily bad, but it would’ve been significantly better with just a bit of care towards taking the idea of maggie’s inexorable transformation and restructuring all the other plot elements to fit in with it. instead, the film skips the beginning of maggie’s illness and starts with wade bringing her home after she ran away to hide it. most of the detail of the dilemma he and maggie now face is explained in conversations with doctors rather than in interactions with other characters, which takes all the emotions that should slowly evolve over the course of the film and puts them in your face up front, leaving you to feel like, “ok. they’re sad about all that stuff. now what? ”
rather than dwell on the burgeoning (and warmly winning) romance, miller boldly shifts the action to three years later, well before the film hits its halfway mark. maggie, now married to john and with a three - year old child of her own, has everything she’s ever wished for – except she’s unhappy, despite her new family and spacious apartment. frustrated by john’s inability to finish his novel, and worried they’re bound to eventually fall out of love, maggie makes it her mission to reunite john with his ex - wife. regrettably for maggie, her grand scheme doesn’t go to plan .
schwarzenegger said he was looking forward to playing an everyman character, as a father trying to save his daughter, in maggie. photograph: yonhap / aap
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sony pictures classics has set an awards - qualifying december release in the u. s. for “ the lady in the van, ” starring maggie smith .
at the start of the film, no doubt most zombie genre fans will be thinking the smart choice is to just kill maggie so she' s not a threat to the rest of the family or society. fans will assume wade' s desire to avoid turning his daughter over to quarantine makes him that stereotypical character from every zombie film who is infected or has an infected loved one but keeps it secret and endangers the rest of the group. which is exactly what you' re supposed to think at first, because the rest of the film depends on you having those early assumptions in order to give you the experience of changed perspective .
this level of emotional heft is rare for a schwarzenegger film, but the action icon carries it better than any other performance of his entire career. his tired eyes gaze across the smoking fields of the midwest with a broken and hopeless desperation. even more beautifully executed is breslin’s take on maggie, and daresay eclipses arnold entirely by exhibiting the exact opposite of subtle emotion. there is no serenity for maggie; there is only the knowledge that soon she will lose control and “turn” .
that' s precisely what writer john scott 3 and director henry hobson conspire to do in their film maggie, a zombie apocalypse horror film starring action star arnold schwarzenegger that' s actually not an apocalypse after all; that has more drama than horror; and in which schwarzenegger is not only not the main character, but is instead an ordinary father left helpless in the face of his daughter' s horrible illness. it' s really a film about how families and society deal with terminal illness and the terrible pain it inflicts - - in quite different ways - - on the sick individuals, their families, and on the community around them .
that his daughter is dying of some kind of zombie - inducing virus is not the problem that ultimately derails “maggie”. director henry hobson and screenwriter john scott 3 are dealing in allegory here. what undoes this film is its unwillingness to be as emotionally brutal as this material requires. the actors are game for the ultimate heart of darkness of its scenario, that of a father possibly having to kill his own daughter, yet “maggie” prefers to hide behind the heavy - handed symbolism of its visuals rather than deal with its tragedy head - on. the ending is an infuriating cop - out, negating the tense crisis build - up the film successfully created .
and this is perhaps the cleverest aspect of the script by john scott 3. ultimately, “maggie” is concerned with what comes with the decision to take a life. while we have seen scores of movies about the undead in recent years, with many of them stacking up the body count for pure entertainment value, this film finds wade, caroline, and even maggie herself, grappling with the choice of what to do when the fateful moment arrives when the young girl can’t control her urges. will wade be able to hand over his daughter to the authorities when he’s been told that quarantine will only guarantee maggie a horrible, painful death? is caroline’s pragmatism and fear about maggie’s condition only heightened because it’s not her own flesh and blood child? or is wade being too naive in thinking he can control whatever comes next? these are all bigger thematic concerns than you would usually see in this kind of genre movie, and yet, “maggie” can’t sustain on those ideas alone .
arnold schwarzenegger, left, abigail breslin and joely richardson are starring in the new orleans - shot zombie drama' maggie,' production of which is currently underway .
maggie' s friend allie (raeden greer) visits her and invites her to hang out with friends. they gather around a bonfire, along with a boy named trent (bryce romero), who is also infected. he says he would blow his brains out if he needed to. maggie spends some alone time with trent, culminating in a kiss between the two of them. at the end of the night, allie brings maggie home, and allie cries alone in her car .
“maggie’s plan” is rated r (under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). discreet sex and intense academic jargon. running time: 1 hour 38 minutes .
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for decades, arnold schwarzenegger has been more than an action hero. he’s been a titan, an unstoppable force, the definition of invincible. but in his latest film, “maggie, ” he’s faced with a challenge that offers no bad guy to topple, no win to be had. his daughter is dying, and there’s nothing he can do, save for shed a few tears. in short, “maggie” is not what most fans would expect when hearing that schwarzenegger made a zombie movie .
the number compares very well with the last film adaptation of a bennett play: the history boys debuted with £795, 000 in 2006, on its way to a total of £4. 34m. much of the difference can be attributed to the box - office power of smith, who supported the film with an appearance on the graham norton show, her first chatshow appearance in four decades. the film had a very defined (older) audience, which the distributor sony was able to target with marketing .
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besides its negative critical reviews, some fans also considered the film as one of the worst nightmare on elm street films along with freddy' s revenge and 2010 remake .
geoff gilmore, chief creative officer of the tribeca film festival, in his introduction to the world premiere of maggie, the first feature by henry hobson - starring some guy you may have heard of named arnold schwarzenegger - called the film
a cross between a zombie movie and a family melodrama .
that' s as accurate a description as any for what this film aspires to be, and largely achieves. the zombie genre - and there' s more than enough films, not to mention tv, books, comics, etc. , to qualify as such - has proven elastic enough to encompass many variations and combinations. maggie, as gilmore indicated, combines the zombie movie with an arthouse - friendly family drama. it' s an elegantly made, moody and restrained piece, capped with an equally restrained and quiet central performance by schwarzenegger .
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i honestly wish i liked the film more, but at this point, we' ve seen a whole lot of zombie movies, and while this one tries to find a new way into the idea, it doesn' t do anything particularly new. there' s one scene where, after wade kills two zombies he encounters in the woods, he is forced to deal with a surviving family member face to face and watch her grieve over them. it' s a moment we never see in the horror movie version of this story. little by little, the film keeps tightening its focus until it is simply wade, alone in the house with his daughter, waiting for her to become something he no longer recognizes. if the entire function of the film is to create a framework in which we see schwarzenegger cry, then, sure, mission accomplished. but “maggie” eventually disappoints. even back at the beginning of the modern version of this genre, george romero made movies that were positively laden with subtext. a film like this almost feels like the filmmakers believe they are too “good” to make a real horror film, and as a result, “maggie” feels toothless, no matter how pronounced its taste for flesh .
maggie is lacking in action, so must rely on its performances to succeed. the casting certainly makes it notable as a curiosity, but as cinema it’s the hobbling dead .
the last 20 minutes of the movie was in 3d. in order to know when to put on the glasses, doc gave glasses to maggie to use in her dream .
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we' re delighted to continue our relationship with arnold schwarzenegger, who turns in a performance that marks a dramatic departure from his action persona, and partner with our friends at lotus entertainment on a film that will resonate with thriller aficionados everywhere ,
stated lionsgate' s coo steve beeks. bill johnson and jim seibel, co - chairs of lotus entertainment, producers on the film, added :
maggie takes the zombie genre in exciting new directions, and it offers something for everyone – star power, horror, suspense and riveting performances that will keep moviegoers on the edge of their seats .
silver reel and gold star films financed the film which lionsgate will release theatrically in north america in early 2015 .
maggie is almost completely zombified. wade sits in the living room with his shotgun, not quite ready to use it. maggie walks downstairs, her skin all grey and her eyes blackened. she sees her father sleeping, holding the gun. she goes over to him and kisses his forehead one last time. she then goes to the roof of the house and thinks about her mother. maggie jumps off the roof, and the last thing she appears to see is her as a child frolicking through the flowers with her mother .
it’s a rare light comedy from miller, best known for weighty dramas like “ personal velocity ” and “ the ballad of jack and rose. ” but despite the machinations and manipulations of the film’s titular plot, “maggie’s plan” almost isn’t screwball enough. the characters must undergo some introspection, as well, and striking a balance between those two dynamics proves challenging .
maggie, starring abigail breslin, arnold schwarzenegger, and joely richardson, is a movie that tries to take the zombie craze and boil it down to its most personal, human elements—to varying degrees of success. for a movie that tries so hard not to be a “zombie movie, ” maggie as at its best when it embraces its natural sense of suspense .
most of the global population has been plagued by the necroambulist virus that turns people into zombies. farmers have burnt down their fields and crops to prevent further contamination. maggie' s father wade (arnold schwarzenegger) goes out searching for his daughter. maggie is taken by armed officials and placed in an area at the hospital with other infected people. she has a bite wound on her arm, and the infection is going to gradually spread throughout her body. wade is allowed to take maggie home to settle her affairs until the virus progresses to the point where she must be quarantined. on the trip back, they stop at a store for maggie to get sunglasses. wade encounters a zombie and breaks its neck .
schwarzenegger leads the film as wade, a father who manages to track down his missing daughter in the midst of a zombie apocalypse only to find out that she’s been bitten. even though he’s well aware that maggie (abigail breslin) will become increasingly dangerous, he’s willing to put his own life at risk so that they can spend her last few weeks together .
remained in first place on the per theater chart with an average of $ 18, 182. it wasn' t the only film in the $ 10, 000 chart this week .
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stars schwarzenegger as a father clinging to the draining humanity of his infected daughter (abigail breslin), and we now know when lionsgate affiliate roadside attractions will release the film to theaters .
the itv period drama came to an end on christmas day in 2015, but it was finally confirmed by the sun in may that a full length feature film edition would be made .
i t didn’t take long for the protests to begin. disability - rights advocates, having perceived–whether they’d seen it or not–a different film than i had, began attacking eastwood and million dollar baby as an anti - disability “snuff film. ” disabled members of the anti - assisted suicide group not dead yet staged a civilized protest in chicago on jan. 19, where the chicago film critics association (including well - known critic roger ebert, with whom i had corresponded frequently via e - mail) had gathered to pay tribute to veteran filmmaker robert altman .
maggie’s step - siblings are sent away to live with other family members as soon as she’s brought home with the virus without giving much time to show her normal life with them. there’s an aspect of creeping isolation to maggie, but it would’ve worked better if it was slowly spaced out over the course of the film instead of starting so abruptly and then not coming up again until caroline eventually leaves wade alone with her in the final stages of infection. the isolation was present, but it could’ve had greater impact with a slower, steadier progression .
gerwig plays maggie, a young woman who, at the outset of miller’s borderline romantic comedy, seems to have a firmer head on her shoulders than the bumbling dancer the actor played to perfection in frances ha – still the actor’s strongest vehicle to date. maggie is single, but hell - bent on having a baby via a surrogate, who fancies himself a “pickle entrepreneur”. she urgently relays this to her close friend, tony (a delightfully wry bill hader), over the whirlwind opening minutes of miller’s rapid fire, new york - set film .
the duo' s other films include: while we' re young, which premiered at the 2014 toronto international film festival and stars ben stiller, naomi watts, amanda seyfried and adam driver; and frances ha in stylish black - and - white, co - written and starring gerwig, which premiered at the 2012 telluride film festival and opened in theaters the following year .
home win … maggie smith and alex jennings in the lady in the van, this week’s highest - earning new release at the uk box - office. photograph: allstar / bbc films
it is not often that a film comes along which not only subverts genre expectations, but in fact uses that subversion of expectations to create a disconnect between how we traditionally perceive the themes and moral imperatives inherent in the genre and what we are experiencing in the film itself. as our expectation of fulfillment of tropes takes root during viewing of a film, teasing us into aligning ourselves with certain traditional attitudes in order to grant our approval for a certain outcome, our embrace of those assumptions makes us vulnerable should anyone decide to yank the rug out from under us .
breslin made her feature film debut as the leading lady to mel gibson – at the age of five – in m. night shyamalan’s 2002 blockbuster film signs. four years later, for her performance as the pageant - obsessed olive in the 2006 sundance festival award winner little miss sunshine, breslin was nominated for academy award ®, sag and bafta “best supporting actress” honors, making her the fifth youngest actress ever nominated for an oscar. she also received a “best actress award” from the tokyo international film festival and was honored as showest’s “female star of tomorrow” in 2008 .
from the press release: the film tells the story of a deadly zombie virus that has put a plague on the world. when maggie, a vivacious young woman becomes infected, her father brings her home to let her be with their family. as maggie’s condition worsens, their relationship is tested, a father’s love holding on stronger than the disease. this heart - wrenching twist on the zombie apocalypse puts a human face on an inexplicable horror. stay tuned for updates and a trailer before the release next year. we' re definitely curious about this .
maggie was young in years when she began working on jane, a murder, and when she finished, her writing had changed. she was no longer writing a book of lyric poetry. instead, she transforms jane’s journal entries into lyric poetry by a process of selection and lineation. paragraphs of prose from newspapers, letters, and in maggie’s own voice mingle with the poetry. in the end, the speaker and her subject are so intimately related that distinguishing between them – pulling them apart to see light between them, saying, this is jane and this here is maggie – becomes impossible and perhaps irrelevant. such is the promiscuity of unconscious life. such is the effect of maggie’s innovations in form. the last two stanzas / paragraphs are these :
when maggie talks to kelly, she discovers that neither he nor anyone else remembers carlos, spencer, or john. doc, who is able to control his dreams, tells her that freddy didn' t just kill them; he erased them. later, maggie, tracy, and doc each have nightmares about freddy; maggie discovers that she is freddy' s daughter, and now he can kill more victims outside springwood. freddy tells doc that the dream demons gave him his power, and doc tears off a shred of freddy' s sweater before he wakes up .
the film is hytner’s first directorial outing after ending his decade at the head of the british national theatre. he and bennett previously collaborated on “the madness of king george” and “the history boys. ”
in my professional opinion, eastwood, who turns 75 on may 31, is now making the best, most challenging films of his career. more than any film eastwood has made, million dollar baby lends itself to complex and conflicting interpretations, which is a mark of masterful filmmaking. nearly unanimous critical praise can’t be casually dismissed; it arises from carefully considered assessment of a praiseworthy film .
but that makes it all the more frustrating that maggie isn’t really good, either. maggie could have been a rare treat: a genre movie that eschews big explosions and bloody showdowns to get to the intimate, human tragedy underneath. instead, what we get is a genuinely new take that winds up feeling, somehow, like the same old stuff we’ve seen a million times before.
maggie is a 2015 post-apocalyptic horror drama film directed by henry hobson , in his directorial debut , written by john scott 3 , and starring arnold schwarzenegger , abigail breslin and joely richardson . maggie is a dramatic departure for schwarzenegger , who is better known for his action film roles . the film was originally set to have its world premiere at the 2014 toronto international film festival , but lionsgate bought the american distribution rights and pulled the film out of the festival 's roster . it instead premiered at the 2015 tribeca film festival on april 23 , 2015 , as part of their lineup , followed by a limited theatrical release and simultaneous vod release on may 8 , 2015 . 
maggie is a 2015 post-apocalyptic horror drama film directed by henry hobson, in his directorial debut, written by john scott 3, and starring arnold schwarzenegger, abigail breslin and joely richardson. maggie is a dramatic departure for schwarzenegger, who is better known for his action film roles. the film was originally set to have its world premiere at the 2014 toronto international film festival, but lionsgate bought the american distribution rights and pulled the film out of the festival's roster. it instead premiered at the 2015 tribeca film festival on april 23, 2015, as part of their lineup, followed by a limited theatrical release and simultaneous vod release on may 8, 2015.
maggie is a 2015 post-apocalyptic horror drama film directed by henry hobson, in his directorial debut, written by john scott 3, and starring arnold schwarzenegger, abigail breslin and joely richardson. maggie is a dramatic departure for schwarzenegger, who is better known for his action film roles. the film was originally set to have its world premiere at the 2014 toronto international film festival, but lionsgate bought the american distribution rights and pulled the film out of the festival's roster. it instead premiered at the 2015 tribeca film festival on april 23, 2015, as part of their lineup, followed by a limited theatrical release and simultaneous vod release on may 8, 2015.