Panic Room

Director: David Fincher

2012 / 112min / 35mm

Newly divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her sullen adolescent daughter Sarah (a pre-Twilight Kristen Stewart) have just begun to acquaint themselves with their new digs, a four-story Upper West Side brownstone previously owned by a wealthy recluse with a horror of home invaders, when they find themselves under siege by the insalubrious trio of Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam, and a cornrowed Jared Leto, mother and daughter narrowly escaping to find sanctuary—and entrapment—in the house’s concrete-and-steel reinforced “panic room.” A claustrophobic, heart-in-your-throat thriller with a drum-tight script courtesy David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible), unusually precise in its attention to fine points of psychological motivation and architectural detail—in a game-of-inches battle like the one that Fincher’s film depicts, nothing is incidental.

Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment

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