Genre: Romance, Drama, Love, Suspense, Betrayal, Thieves, Love Triangle
Tagline: Passion never dies.
Plot: From the moment Matthew sees Lisa, nothing else matters. She walks past the window of the shop where he works in the Wicker Park section of Chicago, and he’s immediately captivated; he follows her, they meet, and soon they fall deeply in love. Everything about their relationship seems perfect – until the day she disappears without a trace.Two years later, Matt has built a new life for himself, but he’s still haunted by her memory and the nagging torment of unanswered questions. Then he catches a quick glimpse of someone he thinks must be her in a bar…but is it? Thus begins a twisting, obsessive search for the woman who captured his heart years ago – and for someone who’s playing with his mind right now. Intricately moving back and forth in time and revealing the story from varying perspectives, Matthew’s search for the truth will lead him deeper into the mystery, with each discovery more deceiving than the next. Obsession can go both ways, and Matthew discovers it’s possible to love someone too
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 One of the reasons I think Wicker Park works is because it tells a story that could be presented as a thriller in a straightforward, dramatic fashion. Instead of scares and moments of high tension, the film focuses on the characters and the motives that drive them.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
Josh Hartnett stars in this romantic thriller that fails to raise a single goose bump, but does raise the question: What if the lead character's cellphone worked?--Stephanie Zacharek (Salon)
This is a smart movie, full of astonishing reverses and switchbacks, and it adroitly walks the thin line between too clever by half and not clever enough by three-quarters.--Stephen Hunter (Washington Post)
Where the movie collapses from the weight of its own stupidity, however, is when it reveals to the audience just how everyone's wires got crossed in the first place. And at that point it ceases to be a thriller (let alone much of a mystery), and becomes a soggy, improbable love story you can't wait to be over.--Michael O'Sullivan (Washington Post)
WICKER PARK is a dense, elegant mystery directed by Paul McGuigan, who knows the difference between being stylish and being showy.  --Andrea Chase (Killer Movie Reviews)
Wicker Park sums up everything that's wrong with American remakes of foreign films: it's dumbed down so far, it's just plain dumb.  --Jamie Russell (BBC Films)
"Wicker Park" shows the rarely seen negative aspects of stalking -- the obsession, the lying, the breaking and entering and so forth. It's about time Hollywood dealt with this subject matter! C+--Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com)
WICKER PARK is a movie that runs too long, starts to feel contrived about halfway through and seems to go over some of the same things over and over again, but at the end of the film, I was smiling, I was happy about how things turned out and I noted howI was never particularly bored during the screening. 6/10--'JoBlo' (JoBlo.com)
A stylish-looking drama, ‘Wicker Park’ is a terrible waste of potential with laughable performances that already weaken an unnecessarily complicated plot.--Harrison Cheung (Movie-Gurus.com)
Not a patch on the original, this is basically the same story but completely stripped of atmosphere, style and tension – rent the French version instead. --Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
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Paul McGuigan
Lucky Number Slevin, Gangster No. 1, The Acid House |
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| Brandon Boyce
Apt Pupil, The Mayor of Castro Street, Public Access |
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 | Rose Byrne
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, Troy, Two Hands | | | Jessica Paré
Lost and Delirious, Bollywood/Hollywood, Stardom | | |
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| Wicker Park is a good-looking but empty film -- pretentious, bland and overly ambitious to a fault. Perhaps the French might have made this premise fly, but in Hollywood, the deft hand of Alfred Hitchcock is sorely missed. --Vince Leo (Qwipster.net)
Make no mistake—I do want Wicker Park to be seen—even with all of my complaints of it. It’s just disappointing that, in all its meanness and leanness, it had to be so detached from its audiences.  --Danny Baldwin (BucketReviews.com)
Expertly-directed but sadly mis-cast, this engaging romantic thriller brings us less a love triangle than a love dodecahedron - so make sure you're paying attention if you don't want to end up lost! 7/10--Gary Panton (Movie Gazette)
Having Josh Hartnett and Matthew Lillard simultaneously on screen honestly used to be enough for me to justify praising a film. This time around, however, I don’t think that’s gonna happen. C---Dan Deevy (TheCinemaSource)
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