The Box

The Box

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  • Genre(s): Thriller, Science Fiction
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Richard Kelly, Dieter Busch, Jason Altieri, Mark Carter, Maxine Bergen See all Crew
  • Cast(s): Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella, James Rebhorn, Holmes Osborne See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 1h 55min
  • Music: Win Butler,Goro Koyama,Régine Chassagne,Owen Pallett,William Britt
  • Award(s): Saturn 2010 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
  • Story:
    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.
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5.6/10
IMDb

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STORY AND RATINGS

Story
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.
Ratings

5.6/10

IMDb

AWARDS

Nominations
Saturn Award

Best Horror Film | 2010

Best Supporting Actor | 2010 | Frank

Chainsaw Award

Best Supporting Actor | 2010 | Frank

Best Score | 2010 | Owen

Worst Film | 2010

VES Award

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture | 2010

BOX OFFICE

Budget 30,000,000 USD

Box Office Collection 33,333,531 USD

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

The main characters, Norma Lewis and Arthur Lewis, were based on director Richard Kelly's parents. His mother also suffered a crippled foot after an X-Ray mishap; his father worked for NASA and co-designed the camera used on the Viking Mars Landers (as in the movie).

The short story "Button, Button," written by Richard Matheson, was first published in Playboy magazine (June 1970).

The short story by Richard Matheson was previously adapted as The Twilight Zone: Profile in Silver/Button, Button (1986).

When the nanny is looking through the stack of old Astounding science fiction magazines, she mentions the title of one story, "The Day of the Moron." "The Day of the Moron" was written by science fiction author H. Beam Piper, who wrote a story about how the human race originated on Mars and immigrated to Earth.

On the commentary of Tony Scott's Domino (2005), director Richard Kelly outright dismissed shooting a 1970s period piece with a digital camera. However, after seeing David Fincher's Zodiac (2007), Kelly's position quickly changed, and he was quoted saying, "It can be done."

Popular Dialogues

"Martin Teague: Sir? If you don't mind my asking... why a box? Arlington Steward: Your home is a box. Your car is a box on wheels. You drive to work in it. You drive home in it. You sit in your home, staring into a box. It erodes your soul, while the box that is your body inevitably withers... then dies. Whereupon it is placed in the ultimate box, to slowly decompose. Martin Teague: It's quite depressing, if you think of it that way. Arlington Steward: Don't think of it that way... think of it as a temporary state of being."

"Arlington Steward: If human beings are unable or unwilling to sacrifice individual desires for the greater good of your species, you will have no chance for survival."