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The Well [VHS]

starring: Pamela Rabe, Miranda Otto, Paul Chubb, Frank Wilson (II), Steve Jacobs
directed by: Samantha Lang

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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780794201128
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 0794201121
Label: Fox Lorber
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Fox Lorber
Release Date: April 16, 2002
Running Time: 98 minutes
Studio: Fox Lorber
Theatrical Release Date: July 31, 1998

Editorial Review:Creepiness abounds in this beautifully shot, well-acted Aussie suspense flick. The Well is especially satisfying because it takes its time, carefully setting up the characters before getting to the meat of the plot. Stiff, quiet Hester, edging into middle age, lives alone on an isolated farm with her father. When Hester brings young, pretty Katherine to the farm to help with the housework, her life begins to change, subtly revolving more and more around her young maid. To reveal any more would deprive the viewer of watching the quietly chilling plot unfold. Director Samantha Long shoots the movie skillfully and patiently. Her best device is the use of a blue-gray filter, with sudden bright flashes of red and yellow around Katherine. The cast is uniformly good, but special kudos goes to Pamela Rabe, who reveals the passion hiding just beneath Hester's surface. --Ali Davis

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Could have been great
"The Well" would have worked much better as a straight out drama than a film which tries to incorporate a "supernatural" element into it. On the cover a critic from the New York Times raves about how it is the creepiest exercise in cinematic sleight of hand since "The Blair Witch Project". I wonder if he even saw this movie.

There are top knotch performances in this film, and at times they even approach greatness:Pamela Rabe as the aging, self controlled Hester, gives us a character ... Read More

Rating:

- Good concept but very poorly done
The plot has so much potential, it's a pity they ended up producing such a dull movie. Really the only things that kept me watching it was the hope that it would get better (hope springs eternal) and the fact that I have found so many times in the past that what starts out as a dull, slow-paced movie often ends up to be a gem. This is NOT the case with this movie. Only for a few minutes in the movie does it pick up beyond a snail's pace. It's difficult to sympathize with any of the characters when ... Read More

Rating:

- A unique brooding drama
Shot mostly with a filter of subdued blue, and occasional greens for trees and grass, The Well, an Australian drama, is more than anything else an exercise in mood. A middle-aged spinster, well acted by Pamela Rabe, lives with her old decrepit father and cares for him with an undercurrent of grudge. When he dies she takes into her house a much younger woman, also well played by Miranda Otto, who is the opposite of the older woman--in age and temperament both.Rabe's Hester has lighter ... Read More

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