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Director: David Ondaatje
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From Time Out New York
This serial-killer procedural is about a West Hollywood slasher who apes Jack the Ripper, but the real crime is the travesty writer-director David Ondaatje perpetrates on Hitchcock. Like Hitch’s 1927 silent classic of the same name, The Lodger is based on a novella about a mysterious loner (Baker) who takes a couple’s spare room as a killing spree strikes the neighborhood. Alfred Molina has a fair stab as the cop on the case, but the script is stultifyingly clichéd, the execution atrociously attention-seeking, and the violence done to Hitch’s signature shots and motifs inexcusable.Author: Ben Walters
Time Out New York Issue 695: January 22 - 28 2009
Cast & crew
Director: David Ondaatje
Cast: Simon Baker, Hope Davis, Alfred Molina
Duration: 96 mins
US Release: Jan 23 2009
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