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Release Date: 2007-08-30
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TMDB Rating: 6.7/10 from 192 votes on TMDB
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Hallam's talent for spying on people reveals his darkest fears-and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, he instead finds himself searching the rooftops of the city for love.
Tagline:This is my story
Genres: Drama|
Comedy|
Thriller|
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Release Date: 2007-08-30
Movie Revenue: $2149799
Movie Runtime: 95
Language: English
Hallam Foe Box Office Collection: $8000000
Hallam Foe was released on 30 August 2007. It is a Drama, Comedy, Thriller film with a running time of 95 minutes. Produced in United Kingdom. Filmoria has been tracking Hallam Foe since its release, keeping this page updated with the latest cast, trailer and streaming details.
Filmoria's Take: Audience reaction has been solid without being universal. It has had time to find its audience by now. If you are into Drama, it is worth a look.
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After momentarily veering off course with a misguide adaptation of Patrick McGrath's eerie neo-gothic novel Asylum, Scottish director David Mackenzie is back on track, making good on the promise he initially showed with such dark, acclaimed features as THE LAST GREAT WILDERNESS and the award-winning YOUNG ADAM. Expert at lock picking and proficient at peering into other people's windows, 17-year-old Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) is a young Scot who can't get past the drowning death of his suicidal mother in the loch on the sprawling family estate. Dad (Ciaran Hinds) has since married his former secretary, Verity (Claire Forlani), whom Hallam hates and he takes no pains to hide his feelings. After his sister, Lucy (Lucy Holt), relocates to Australia, Hallam holes himself up in his tree house where he spends hours under a blow-up portrait of his late mother, contemplating whether or not Verity might have actually been responsible for his mother's death. When Verity confronts him with the private notes books in which he records not only his voyeuristic escapades around the village but his own self-digusted lust for Verity herself, Hallam explodes. Hallam accuses her of murdering his mother, then attempts to strangle her. They then have sex on the tree-house floor. Figuring now is as good a time as any to finally leave home, Hallam runs off to Edinburgh where he spots Kate (Sophia Myles), a young woman who bears a striking resemblance to his mother. Bewitched, he follows her to the landmark Balmoral Hotel where she works, then begs his way into a job as a kitchen porter just to be near to her. When he follows her home after work, he realizes he can see into her bedroom window from the Balmoral's famous clock tower. There he sets up post, watching Kate during her most private moments as he falls in love.. Based on the cult novel Hallam Foe by Peter Jinks, Mackenzie's film walks a very fine line between charming and downright creepy: There's no getting around the fact that Hallam has a few serious problems, compulsive voyeurism being the most troubling. But rather than underplay what makes this unusual character so compelling, Mackenzie leaves Hallam Foe has he found him, and Giles Nuttgens (ASYLUM, YOUNG ADAM and Deepa Mehta's gorgeous WATER) films it all in high style. Bell is excellent, the settings are spectacular and the right Scottish soundtrack features songs by Franz Ferdinand, Orange Juice and The Pastels.
Review via The Movie Database (TMDB)
The eponymous young lad (Jamie Bell) has a bit of a prurient streak - he loves watching people making out in the woods from his treehouse before applying his own, unique, form of contraception! His life at home is a troubled one after his mother committed suicide and "Hallam" certain that his new stepmother (Claire Forlani) was behind the crime. Unable to convince his father (Ciaràn Hinds) he flees to Edinburgh were he falls completely for hotel manager "Kate" (Sophia Myles). He pleads with her to give him a kitchen job and pretty swiftly, thanks to an eerie like vantage point atop the hotel, he is up to his old tricks again. Quickly, he discovers that she is having an affair with a married man (Jamie Sives). It's that man who cottons on to his peccadillo and swiftly "Jenny" becomes aware too. What's next for the disturbed young man? There's something very honest about Bell's performance here. He treads a tightrope between horny young man and one caught up in a traumatic mystery that might be true, or it might all be a figment of his very over-active imagination. The characterisation of the well-meaning "Kate" also works well too as does that of his curmudgeonly kitchen co-worker "Raymond" (Maurice Roëves). The story is a little far-fetched, but it has something of the getting into the mind not a child to it, and I found Bell an engaging actor to watch.
Review via The Movie Database (TMDB)
