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Funny Games U.S.


Category: Crime
All Genres: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Release Year: 2007
Country: USA, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Austria
Runtime: 111
Rating: 8 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Michael Haneke
Sound: Dolby Digital, SDDS, DTS
Taglines:

  • Shall we begin?
  • You Must Admit, You Brought This On Yourself
  • Pray You Win
  • I bet theyll be dead by morning.
  • Let the games begin…
  • Let the games begin
  • The rules are simple. Pick a family and make them play
  • Whether by knife or by gun, losing your life can sometimes be fun.


    • Writing by: Michael Haneke – (written by)

    Produced by: Rene Bastian – co-producer
    Christian Baute – producer
    Adam Brightman – co-producer
    Chris Coen – producer
    Skady Lis – associate producer
    Hamish McAlpine – producer
    Pascal Metge – line producer
    Linda Moran – co-producer
    Hengameh Panahi – executive producer
    Valerie Romer – line producer
    Jonathan Schwartz – co-producer
    Andro Steinborn – producer
    Douglas C. Steiner – executive producer
    Naomi Watts – executive producer

    Cast: Naomi Watts – Ann
    Tim Roth – George
    Michael Pitt – Paul
    Brady Corbet – Peter
    Devon Gearhart – Georgie
    Boyd Gaines – Fred
    Siobhan Fallon – Betsy (as Siobhan Fallon Hogan)
    Robert LuPone – Robert
    Susanne C. Hanke – Betsys Sister-in-Law
    Linda Moran – Eve

    Music: Roque Baños
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    Plot Outline: Two psychotic young men take a family hostage in their cabin.
    Plot: In this English-language remake of a deconstruction in the way violence is portrayed in the media, a family settles into its vacation home, which happens to be the next stop for a pair of young, articulate, white-gloved serial killers on an excursion through the neighborhood.

    Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    Outtakes play through the closing credits.

    Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Audio/visual unsynchronized: SPOILER: The mobile phone the couple attempt to use to call the Police after their sons shooting is a Nokia. When switched on, a Nokia start up tone is used. However, the key tone is that of a Motorola (the tone is heard when they press the Call button after 911).

    Trivia: There are 3 entries in the trivia list – like these:

    • Director Michael Haneke also directed the Austrian original: Funny Games (1997).
    • The production crew used the blueprints from the 1997 original. The set of the house in the 2007 American remake has the same proportions as that of the 1997 set.
    • The film is a shot-by-shot remake of the original.



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