Famke Janssen Movie:

		List Price: $24.95		Label: The Asylum Salesrank: 30645 Released: October 20, 2009
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		MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Media: DVD

Editorial Review:
Studio: Asylum Home Entertainment Release Date: 10/20/2009 Run time: 101 minutes

100 Feet Reviews:
Love never dies: so neither does hate
2009-11-19 - When i first read about this film i must say i was a bit weary about renting it as it seemingly was from one of these new "extreme" companys that produce so many films a month that all are poorly made, edited and just in general are stupid much like The tattoo artist, Sublime, and bascialy anything "dimension extreme" has to produce Unless you care for very poor special effects and nudity that is placed in the film just because it can be done. But i digress, 100 feet tells the story of a woman recently opted for house arrest from prison after the gruesome murder/ self defense act against her husband, a well known and liked police officer, whos former partner just so happens to be the officer in charge of watching after her during her sentence. While she is free from the prison bars, she quickly learns her own home is becoming a prison itself, as neighbors whom she once chatted with now turn away from the "murderer" and children are told to stay away from her house altogether even on halloween during trick or treating ( a rather sad scene itself there) as well as the realization that despite the fact her husband has passed on, his angry and vengeful spirit has decided to extract his final revenge in the one place she cant leave, the place she should feel comfort in her own home. While the special effects arent over the top for the husband, i will say they are remeniscent of the effects in Hollow man, the actress does a trully great job at portraying a broken woman trying to find peace for herself in the mortal world and justice for herself in the spirit world

Not nearly as stupid as I expected it to be.
2009-10-26 - 100 Feet (Eric Red, 2008)

I get the feeling that the story of the making of 100 Feet is actually more interesting than the movie itself. You have a writer/director, Eric Red, who should have been a household name after two of the movies he wrote in the mid-1980s, the underrated thriller The Hitcher and Near Dark, one of the hundred best movies ever made. He didn't however, and he's worked only sporadically in Hollywood ever since. Red teams up with a lead actress with a similar story, Famke Janssen, whose road to stardom was derailed in the mid-nineties (after a fantastic role in Lord of Illusions, another highly underrated movie) by the curse of the Bond Girl. She's quite a good actress when she's got a real role to sink her teeth into (viz. The first X-Men flick), but she's made some choices that, shall we say, leave something to be desired. (Did you see Deep Rising? Yeah, neither did anyone else, and for good reason.) Because of that, she hasn't gotten nearly the work she deserves. Throw in a script (by Red) that's nowhere near as good as those he's best-known for and a few actors who the casting office probably could have done better (it's become a rule of thumb in the past fifteen years that any movie featuring Michael Pare is going to suck), and you have a recipe for disaster.

Despite all that, 100 Feet is not nearly as bad as I expected it to be as soon as I saw Michael Pare's name go flying across my screen.

Janssen plays Marnie Watson (and, really, does she look like a Marnie to you?), just released from prison after a two-year sentence for killing her abusive husband in self-defense. Of course she was convicted; her husband (Pare) was a cop, and the law did not look well on her, especially his partner, Shanks (Snakes on a Plane's Bobby Cannavale). She's sentenced to a year of house arrest, with an ankle bracelet tuned to a large box placed in her second-floor alcove from which she can travel no more than one hundred feet for more than three minutes without the police being summoned. Not that they'll need summoned; Shanks, just waiting for her to slip up, spends an awful lot of time in his car across the street from her house. (Maybe he took vacation time?) All well and good, until Marnie realizes that she's not alone in the house--the spirit of her dead husband is there as well, and doesn't plan on letting her get away with murder. She finds some solace in the friendship of Joey (Gossip Girl's Ed Westwick), the guy who delivers her groceries, but she may not be around to enjoy his friendship too long if the ghost has his way. Shanks, of course, is convinced there's some more rational explanation, but Marnie is convinced her husband left something in the house to which he's tied...

I have finally figured out how to make a Michael Pare movie not suck: give him a non-speaking role. (He does say one word, but it still counts in my book). This is Pare's best onscreen turn since Eddie and the Cruisers twenty-six years previous. Cannavale isn't bad as the gruff cop, and Janssen, as I said before, really is a good actress when she's got a role she can really get her head around, and this is one of those roles.

Where the movie fails, however, is in its script. The people in this movie make some intensely stupid choices, and they do so over and over again. The dialogue tries for witty and fails a few times too many, there's a painfully obvious subplot about Marnie's sister and the will of their mother, who died while Marnie was in prison, that goes nowhere (is forced to go nowhere given the climax of the film)... I'm just touching the surface here. This is not Eric Red's best screenwriting moment by a longshot, which is probably the reason this movie went straight to DVD. Still, it's got some decent acting and some workable characters, and hey, any movie where Michael Pare doesn't suck is worth your time for that fact alone. * ½


No subtitle or Closed Captioned
2009-10-24 - Just recently start play, turn out there is no Subtitle (Not even in Spanish too) or Closed Captioned. Yes, I am Deaf if you curious why I put down 1 star.

eh ...
2009-10-19 - This is okay. It starts out a lot better than it actually delivers by the end. Acting is actually pretty good throughout, but the FX were just annoying. Premise is a great one. With a tighter script, better fx, and a better ending, this could have worked really well. Not bad for a spin though.

Don't Pay Any Mind To The Bad Review Above
2009-10-19 - First I give this movie 3 and a half stars, and second I half to defend some of the absurd statements the other reviewer made. This guy blames a character for not telling anyone one her dead husband has come back from the grave to severely beat, and haunt her. No one would believe her at all. His critazitsm makes no sense. She behaves in a very rational manor. Only two people vist her on a regular basis. A young boy she wants to have sex with, and a police detective. If she tells the boy, he will think she's crazy, and never come back. If she tell the detective, he will have her thrown back in jail, or put in an institution. Keeping her under house arrest is a very clever idea. Eric Red is a very under rated director that should be making many more movies than he does. So many were great little B movies that have gone unnoticed by most people, and this is no exception. It's scary, well acted, and well directed. I'm not sayin this is the greatest thing to happen to horror, but it's so much better than all those PG-13 affairs we get. If your a horror fan, or you just want something scary to watch for Halloween, then see this movie! And check out some of Eric Red's other movies as well. There all good fun.