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HE WAS A QUIET MAN
Out 16-Oct-08
Comedy Drama,2007,95 minutes,English,1.85:1,Dolby Stereo,MA 15+ (Sexual references, themes and coarse language),tbc,Frank A Cappello,Christian Slater, Elisha Cuthbert, William H Macy,"He Was a Quiet Man casts its own perversely funny spell thanks in large part to Slater, whose wonderfully shifty, beaten-down performance is easily his best in the 17 years." LA Weekly
"An excellent, unpredictable and often extremely witty film… Slater is superb” Screen International
"Visually arresting, structurally inventive and entirely unpredictable, the film plays like the bastard child of 'Fight Club', 'Brazil' and 'Amelie', and has the potential to be a genuine cult hit if it gets the international release it so obviously deserves.” Time Out London
"Audacious... Slater [delivers an] implosive, fearlessly self-effacing performance." Variety,Bob Maconel (Christian Slater), is having a bad day. Mentally unstable, toiling away in a lonely cubicle, constantly disrespected by his superiors, he dreams of murdering his co-workers. Beaten to the punch by a fellow office nut, Bob kills him in defense and becomes a hero. Promoted by his boss (William H. Macy) to suspicious vocational heights, Bob must deal with Vanessa (Elisha Cuthbert), his workplace fancy, now suicidal and paralyzed by the shooting.
From potential killer to inadvertent hero, Bob saves Vanessa only to have her ask him to kill her. In a tour-de-force performance by Christian Slater in what many critics claim is his greatest role ever, HE WAS A QUIET MAN is totally unpredictable and entirely original in its depiction of a modern man driven to the edge in today’s complex, high-pressured society.
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