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Panic
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: June 19, 2001
  • Originally Released: 2000
  • Label: Lions Gate

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Directed by
Edited by &
Music by
Screenwriting by
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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 4,337
Rating: A- -- It's less the plot than the texture that makes the film such an engaging surprise.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
May 17, 2001
...PANIC seeps with melancholy, old wounds, repressed anger, lust. That it is also caustically funny and heartwarming is miraculous...
Chicago Sun-Times
Jan 19, 2001
...Worth a look. Donald Sutherland and William H. Macy as father and son is an inspired idea...
USA Today
Jun 22, 2001
Radiates quiet and calm, while simmering with tension both comic and tragic.
Detroit Free Press
Apr 20, 2001
Rating: 4/4 -- Singlehandedly, William H. Macy turns "Panic" into a slimmed-down "American Beauty" - a passive man lashing out to break a cycle of dissatisfaction and familial strife for happiness, however fleeting. Full Review
The Film Yap
Sep 17, 2010
Quirky, funny, dark, it hits your funny bone, offends your sense of ethics, occasionally even touches your heartstrings. Full Review
San Diego Metropolitan
Oct 21, 2002
Rating: 3/4 -- The results are quietly electrifying.
Detroit News
Apr 20, 2001

Product Description:

Alex (William H. Macy) is having a midlife crisis; not only is he unhappy with his marriage, but he wants to get out of the family business, which happens to be killing people for hire. Seeking help, Alex turns to Dr. Josh Parks (John Ritter) for therapy. While in the psychologist's waiting room, he meets Sarah (Neve Campbell), a manic but beautiful young woman. Set reeling by his attraction to Sarah, Alex has to contend not only with his new feelings but also with his concerned wife (Tracey Ullman), his intuitive six-year-old son (David Dorfman), and his controlling father (Donald Sutherland). When Alex's tyrannical dad catches wind of his son's therapy and growing hesitation about their two-man operation, he gives Alex a new assignment--one that leads to a startling resolution.

A consistently remarkable actor, Macy delivers an outstanding performance, carrying director Henry Bromell's debut with a somber world-weariness. The film admirably manages to avoid certain tired scenarios, presenting an intriguing and unusual relationship between Campbell's impulsive Sarah and Macy's sullen Alex while portraying him as neither pathetic nor heroic. Well-written and expertly photographed, PANIC is an effective and engaging drama about one man's struggle to escape the numbness of his life.

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  • UPC: 012236117285
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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