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Original title

Seconds

Year

1966

Running time

105 min.

Country

United States

Director

John Frankenheimer

Screenwriter

Lewis John Carlino. Novel: David Ely

Cast

Music

Jerry Goldsmith

Cinematography

James Wong Howe (B&W)

Producer

Paramount Pictures

Genre

Sci-Fi. Mystery. Drama | Psychological Thriller

Synopsis

Arthur Hamilton is a middle aged New York banker living in Scarsdale. He's married with a grown daughter he rarely sees anymore. He is generally disengaged from everything in his life. Based on a series of telephone calls he receives from his supposedly deceased friend Charlie Evans, Arthur is drawn into a company that provides him with a second chance in life.

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Rankings Position

#85 Best Science Fiction Movies

Awards: 1966: Nominated for Oscar: Best Cinematography (B&W)

1966: Cannes Film Festival: Nominated for Palme d'Or (Best Film)

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Critics' reviews

"The film features a surprisingly good performance by Rock Hudson, an impeccable supporting cast and stunning cinematography by screen veteran James Wong Howe."

TV Guide
"This cult movie for the ages suggests a Twilight Zone episode taken to gruesome extremes."

Mike Clark: USA Today
"As a portrayal of identity and alienation in suburban America, it's about a hundred times as creepy and sincere as David Lynch's thematically similar Lost Highway."

Nathan Rabin: AV Club
"A beautiful x-ray of middle-aged existential crisis"

Bill Weber: Slant
"The technical dazzle can’t make up for the boring, unsympathetic characters. With no one to root for, this arty, humorless film ends up pretentiously empty."

Entertainment Weekly
"US suburbia boredom is treated in an original manner in this cross between a sci-fi opus, a thriller, a suspense pic and a parable on certain aspects of American middle-class life."

Variety Staff: Variety
"John Frankenheimer created this eccentrically brilliant thriller, an exercise in mid-sixties paranoia."

Liam Lacey: The Globe and Mail

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