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He Was a Quiet Man

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Time Out says

Giving a creepy fantasist everything he has ever dreamed of is the intriguing set-up squandered by this odd and aimless film. When the office punchbag, Bob Maconel (Christian Slater sporting giant specs and a receding hairline), decides to murder his co-workers, he not only fumbles loading the gun, but finds himself beaten to it by the man who sits on the next desk. Maconel then sees his office crush (Elisha Cuthbert) hit the floor, kills the man and is hailed a hero. He even gets the (now paraplegic) girl. The only glitch is that he is still the same psychopathic loner. Slater does well to soften the lines of his no-hoper caricature, but writer-director Cappello steers his film to nowhere particularly memorable.
Written by Cath Clarke

Release Details

  • Rated:15
  • Release date:Friday 7 December 2007
  • Duration:91 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Frank Cappello
  • Screenwriter:Frank Cappello
  • Cast:
    • Christian Slater
    • Elisha Cuthbert
    • William H Macy
    • Sascha Knopf
    • Jamison Jones
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