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Like Minds (2006)
Director: Gregory J Read
Movie review
From Time Out London
A schoolboy is suspected of murder in this Australian-British thriller set at a boarding school in the UK. Toni Collette is Sally Rowe, a police psychologist who spends much of the film interviewing posh, sulky Alex (Eddie Redmayne) in a wavering English accent. Alex denies shooting his equally posh, sulky classmate Nigel (Tom Sturridge), and as he relates his version of events, flashbacks show how keen taxidermist Nigel began to draw Alex into his dark world.And so Rowe must attempt to wrestle the truth from the supposedly brilliant young mind. But debut writer-director Gregory J Read makes it hard to care, offering up superficial, monotonal characters (you never escape the feeling that you’re watching pretty boys playing psychopaths). Interesting plot developments – such as Alex’s fatal crush on a schoolgirl – are all too brief, buried under heavy-handed scoring and semi-intelligible waffle about secret societies, pacts and so on. The ending is unclear: the old explanatory-flashback trick might have helped in this case. Toni Collette must have owed the director quite a favour.
Author: Anna Smith
Time Out London Issue 1916: May 9-15 2007
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- just a book secret said...
- Posted on Jan 01 2009 03:30 y love nigel from like minds is a verry craizzy mind but a verry intresting men and verry nice the movie whit a verry intresting secret and eddie is a verry good actor and tom is verry perfect from eddie. :)) :D :)
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- laura said...
- Posted on Sep 26 2008 14:48 wonderful!! i like this movie... and Tom Sturridge is very good handsome and good actor. perfect!. i don´t forget Toni And Eddie.
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- MHN said...
- Posted on Sep 03 2008 22:45 the phychology in the film was complicated enough to become an exciting and challenging watch. It's a flim unlike any other...it's like marmite..you either hate it or you love it...i loved it
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- MHN said...
- Posted on Sep 03 2008 22:45 the phychology in the film was complicated enough to become an exciting and challenging watch. It's a flim unlike any other...it's like marmite..you either hate it or you love it...i loved it
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- MHN said...
- Posted on Sep 03 2008 22:45 the phychology in the film was complicated enough to become an exciting and challenging watch. It's a flim unlike any other...it's like marmite..you either hate it or you love it...i loved it
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- JL said...
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Posted on Jan 10 2008 08:08
i liked it
i think i fell in love with Nigel!!
he is so cute! - Report as inappropriate
Cast & crew
Director: Gregory J Read
Cast: Toni Collette, Eddie Redmayne, Tom Sturridge, Cathryn Bradshaw, Kate Maberly, Patrick Malahide, Jon Overton, Richard Roxburgh, Amit Shah, Ben Szoradi, David Threfall full cast
Duration: 109 mins
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