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The Night Listener
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
EAN: 0786936718133
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Miramax
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Miramax
MPN: 05266900
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 09, 2007
Running Time: 81 minutes
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: August 04, 2006
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Editorial Review:
Robin Williams and Toni Collette star in this superb adaptation of Armistead Maupin's best-selling novel about a gay radio memoirist who becomes intrigued with a manuscript written by a survivor of sexual abuse.System Requirements:Run Time: 91 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 786936718133 Manufacturer No: 05266900
Celebrity and psychosis collide to truly creepy effect in The Night Listener. Radio personality Gabriel Noone (Robin Williams) is asked to read an advance copy of a memoir by a boy who was horribly abused by his parents. Struck by the boy's story, Noone starts talking to him over the phone, gradually taking an almost parental interest in him--until someone suggests that the boy may not be exactly who he seems. Troubled, Noone flies to Wisconsin, where he meets the boy's social worker (Toni Collette, The Sixth Sense, In Her Shoes) and uncovers some alarming secrets. Don't let the vague, faux-literary title The Night Listener lead you astray; this is a horror movie and a very good one. There are no supernatural monsters or relentless axe-murderers, only a damaged, manipulative mind, which proves to be creepier than any serial killer. Williams gives an excellent, quirk-free performance, but it's Collette who gets under your skin and crawls around. She's vividly eerie, the sort of performance that can stick with you for days. Stealthy, surprising, and wonderfully acted all around--the movie also features Joe Morton (The Brother from Another Planet), Bobby Cannavale (The Station Agent), and Sandra Oh (Sideways)--The Night Listener is an unexpected gem. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A Modest Proposal
No doubt it would have been scarier if Robin Williams had played the caregiver of the poor 14 year old abused boy Pete Logand, and Toni Collette had played the driven radio talk show host whose drab life gets a shot in the arm when she becomes obsessed with getting in touch with the boy, who has written what could turn out to be a best seller in the making, THE BLACKING FACTORY, describing his early life in his parents' basement as the victim of a gang of midwestern pervs. If Williams had been the ... Read More
Rating:  - A Good Start...but
The Night Listener, based on a true story, starts fairly auspiciously. A personally troubled, openly gay radio host (Robin Williams) is contacted by a teenage fan who is dying of AIDS, (although illness is only part of the boy's story). The host is given a manuscript of the boy's life story, which is soon to be published. The boy is reported to have been enslaved and subjected to unthinkable torture and rape at the hands of both his parents and others. We presume the boy contracted AIDS during that ... Read More
Rating:  - one can truly appreciate this movie if you understand factitious disorder
this movie is definitely what i see as a step beyond factitious disorder, where one acts as if he or she has an illness by deliberately producing, feigning, or exaggerating symptoms or intentionally acts physically or mentally ill. if one is interested in a deeper understanding, reference the DSM-IV, as factitious d/o is an actual mental diagnosis. sometimes one can have factitious d/o by proxy, where the feigning of an illness is put upon someone else. in the case of this movie, i say it's a step beyond ... Read More
Rating:  - Traumatizing!
I never recieved this product, however, amazon was prompt in refunding the money back to my account! thanks amazon~!
Rating: - Slow Moving Psycho Thriller
Gabriel Noonan is a writer and radio talk show host who is investigating the truth claims of a Wisconsin teenage boy who claims to have had a life of sexual abuse. He is now being cared for by his adoptive mother (Toni Collette).
Although the mom is not ready for Gabriel to meet the boy, he seems obsessed with finding him, anyway. He breaks into the home and into private hospital rooms and gets himself arrested.
For the rest of the film, you are left to wonder, "Who is the nutjob? ... Read More
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