Nightwatch Summary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ole Bornedal
Genres: Crime, Horror
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Like The_Vanishing (1988 and 1993), Nightwatch is an English-language version of a foreign-made film with the original director hired to remake his own movie. Ole_Bornedal was the writer-director of the suspenseful 1994 thriller, Nattevagten, which had no U.S. release immediately on the heels of its success in Denmark. For the second time around, Bornedal directed, but Steven_Soderbergh wrote a new script based on Bornedal's original film. Both were produced by Michael_Obel. Nattevagten was Bornedal's directorial debut, and reviews praised the film for the claustrophobic atmospherics and suspense generated from the very first establishing scene. For the 1998 English-language remake, the artistic elements of the original gave way to name actors, slicker production values, and the more conventional grindhouse genre approach, opening with a brutal prostitute murder in a pre-credit sequence. University student Martin (Ewan McGregor) ignores warnings to take a city-morgue night watchman job for extra cash. Odd happenings at the morgue are linked to a serial killer, and Inspector Thomas Cray (Nick_Nolte) investigates. Soon Martin's girlfriend Katherine (Patricia_Arquette) learns that Martin has become a key suspect. However, some might suspect Martin's edgy friend James (Josh_Brolin). Brad_Dourif fills the role of a doctor, and young Alix_Koromzay portrays vulnerable teen hooker Joyce. Bhob Stewart, Rovi
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