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Wrecked

WRECKED (Alliance, 2011) D: Michael Greenspan, w/ Adrien Brody, Caroline Dhavernas. Rating: NNN Blu-ray package: NNN Rating: NNN


Wrecked boasts such pure visual storytelling that you could watch it with the sound off.

The sole survivor (Adrien Brody) of a terrible crash wakes up trapped in a car in the deep woods. He doesn’t remember who he is or how he got there. Things get worse when he finally drags himself out of the car. Some of the things he encounters are hallucinations, but not all.

Brody spends most of the movie with his leg in a splint, crawling on his belly over rocky ground and revealing every nuance of the man’s inner life as he gradually dies of exposure. It’s an astonishing performance.

Director Michael Greenspan helps it along with crisp pacing and hugely inventive camera angles that keep things visually interesting but never sacrifice the emotional tone.

The extras offer interesting details about getting a car far into the woods, and Brody shares his thoughts on working with a cougar, eating bugs and doing dangerous stunts.

EXTRAS Four making-of docs. Widescreen. English, French audio. English subtitles.

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