The Return

November. 10,2006      PG-13
Rating:
4.7
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Joanna Mills has a successful career but feels her personal life is spinning out of control. She has few friends, an estranged father, and a crazy ex-boyfriend who is stalking her. Joanna begins having terrifying visions of a woman's murder, and it seems that she is the killer's next target. Determined to solve the mystery and escape her apparent fate, Joanna follows her visions to the victim's hometown and finds that some secrets just do not stay buried.

Sarah Michelle Gellar as  Joanna Mills
Peter O'Brien as  Terry Stahl
Adam Scott as  Kurt
Kate Beahan as  Michelle
Sam Shepard as  Ed Mills
J.C. MacKenzie as  Griff
Brad Leland as  Mr. Marlin
Frank Ertl as  Ambrose Miller
Angela Rawna as  Doctor

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Reviews

Hellen
2006/11/10

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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GrimPrecise
2006/11/11

I'll tell you why so serious

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CommentsXp
2006/11/12

Best movie ever!

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Maleeha Vincent
2006/11/13

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

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grandmastersik
2006/11/14

Sarah Michelle Gellar cuts herself on the leg as a kid and then on the arm as an adult... and because of two self-inflicted knife wounds some 10-15 years apart, we're supposed to believe that she's a troubled woman.That, unfortunately, is about as well scripted as this sore-fest is. We get told via someone's dialogue how troubled she is, that she's always moving around, and then later, she tells some bloke that she's kind of lost so keeps moving around. Yeah, it's that bad... only, not much seems to happen in between.Around the 45 minute mark there were hints of her character having some kind of repressed memories that are haunting her, and turning it off to take a phone call at the hour 6 minute mark, with the killer hot on her trail in some woods, I realised that I actually didn't care what happened in the end and never put the film back on.Normally, films that I turn off get a 1, but Sarah does her best to pull us into a tremendously non-event of a story and had I not been interrupted, I may have sat through it until the end... had I not dozed off.I honestly couldn't recommend this film to anybody.

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atinder
2006/11/15

I order the movie The Resident (2011) and few day later, I get this movie The Return (2006) which never even heard of it, So what hell give A watch.At the start of the movie a Dad is talking His daughter to A funfair but start here whisper of a man, goes into hiding.Few year later, She start sounds and wearied think to start to happen to her all over again and she start to hear the voice of the man again.I have no idea what was going on at all and they just kept getting more weird and even more confusing.This no horror element in this movie at all, it wasn't scary, or creepy and there was anything really get into the mood of this movie.The acting was descent of everyone but the movie is just time waster. 4 out of 10

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Leofwine_draca
2006/11/16

The best thing about this low-key supernatural chiller is the presence of Asif Kapadia as director, although what he's doing here is anyone's guess. Kapadia's a director who's difficult to pigeonhole, and he clearly isn't at home with this otherwise routine story of a girl who may be possessed by the spirit of a murder victim. For a far better example of the kind of film Kapadia excels at, check out his exceptional FAR NORTH.The presence of Sarah Michelle Gellar immediately reminds one of THE GRUDGE, but to be fair THE RETURN never depicts cheesy apparitions or predictable scare sequences. But that doesn't mean it's very good. In actual fact, it's a bit of a bore, one of those films with a too-slim plot that seems stretched out beyond all reason in order to sustain a feature-length movie. Thus half the stuff that happens on-screen (such as the scenes involving Adam Scott's villain) is totally extraneous to the main story.The film's well-shot but the scripting below par. Gellar once again struggles to bring life or vitality to an underwritten leading role, and you start to wonder if she's really cut out for movie parts. There was some novelty for me in seeing ex-NEIGHBOURS actor Peter O'Brien in the supporting role, but he also has little to do other than look moody and mysterious. The supernatural elements are subdued, the mystery elements too dull to entertain, and come the clichéd climax I was ready to switch it off. THE RETURN is a film that never once lifts from the norm.

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Green_Acres
2006/11/17

The Return is one of those under-appreciated thrillers that was marketed as 'horror'. For horror fans, beware, The Return does not have gore, it does not have people screaming, or cheesy chase scenes or killers. This is a more sophisticated adult mystery film. The Return is thankfully, different than modern-day thrillers. It has a slow pace, but has very beautiful imagery and cinematography. The acting is solid, and Sarah Michelle Gellar commands the screen with her quiet presence. Many people might feel restless, but at the end, the film's twist relies a lot on character and exposition, and that is why The Return works. It has many themes of life and death, together with some usual scares and some character drama. I was very pleasantly surprised, and I hope The Return gets the recognition it deserves in the future. It is one of the best, and most unique, thrillers of the decade

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