The Box
All you have to do is push the button.
The Box (2009)
Timing:
1:55 (115 min)
5.612/10
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6.142/10
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76012
5.6/10
98000
98000
Country
Production
Genre
Thriller, Science Fiction
Budget
$30 000 000
Revenue
$33 333 531
Director
Actors
Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella, James Rebhorn, Holmes Osborne, Sam Oz Stone, Gillian Jacobs, Celia Weston, Lisa K. Wyatt, Mark S. Cartier
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Richard Kelly, Sean McKittrick, Dan Lin, Ted Field, Sue Baden-Powell, Terry Dougas, Edward H. Hamm Jr. , Paris Kasidokostas Latsis
Operator
Composer
Régine Chassagne
Artist
Audition
Suzanne Crowley, Mary Vernieu, Venus Kanani
Editing
Sam Bauer, Wendy Cox
All team (335)
All team (335)
Short description
Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. However pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world; someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the cross-hairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on Richard Matheson's short story "Button, Button".
- The main characters, Arthur and Norma Lewis, are based on the director, screenwriter, and producer Richard Kelly's parents. His mother also had health problems (with her leg), and his father also worked at NASA on the landing module for the Viking program.
- The main characters, Arthur and Norma Lewis, are based on the director, screenwriter, and producer Richard Kelly's parents. His mother also had health problems (with her leg), and his father also worked at NASA on the landing module for the Viking program.
- When James Marsden's character looks at a book on controlling people's minds, you can notice an illustration depicting a human skeleton with an arrow coming out of it in the chest area. This is the same illustration that appeared in the book "The Philosophy of Time Travel," which also appears in Richard Kelly's film "Donnie Darko" (2001).
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