Even the smallest of light... shines in the darkness
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
Cast |
Alexander Ludwig, Christopher Eccleston, Ian McShane, Frances Conroy, James Cosmo, Jim Piddock, Amelia Warner, John Benjamin Hickey, Wendy Crewson |
Director |
David L. Cunningham |
Screenplay | John Hodge, from the novel by Susan Cooper |
Music | Christophe Beck |
Cinematography | Joel Ransom |
Editing | Geoffrey Rowland, Eric A. Sears |
Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
Made in | 2007 |
Produced by | Marc Platt Productions, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Walden Media |
Official Site | IMDB page | CAP Report | ScreenIt Report
Trailer: Small | Medium | Large
Genre | Fantasy, adventure |
Language | None |
Nudity | None |
Sex | None |
Violence | Frequent, threatening and menacing but unrealistic |
Prejudice | None |
Blasphemy | None |
Drug abuse | None |
Comments | None |
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Category | Score (-50 to 50) |
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Wanton Violence / Crime | 3 |
Impudence / Hate | 39 |
Sexual Immorality | 50 |
Drugs / Alcohol | 28 |
Offence to God | -50 |
Murder / Suicide | 43 |
Final score | 19 |
Sex / Nudity |
Violence |
Blood / Gore / Gross |
Guns / Weapons |
Profanity |
Alcohol / Drugs |
Smoking |
Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
Imitative Behaviour |
Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
Music (Scary/Tense) |
Music (Inappropriate) |
Topics to talk about |
Scale (Max) | 20 | |
What the Critics say | ||
Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith Mythical book turns mindless film. | 5 | |
Die Burger Jeanne Hugo Effens onafgeronde maar tog genotlike vertelling. | 10 | |
The Citizen Peter Feldman The Dark Is Rising is a limp adventure yarn based on Susan Cooper's second award-winning book. The producers have taken great liberties in translating her book to the screen, and the end result is a damp squib. | 6 | |
24.com Ivan Sadler The Dark is Rising is one of those films that just missed the band wagon and it secretly knows it. | 5 | |
BBC Paul Arendt All in all, this is a terrible bodge. | 5 | |
ScreenIt Suffers from far too many faults to work as intended. | 6 | |
Metacritic.com 21 critics | 8 | |
Rottentomatoes critics 82 critics | 8 | |
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer The magic of the book is lost in translation with The Seeker. | 3 | |
What the People say | ||
Internet 1214 Netizens Story and Originality are almost officially Dead | 10 | |
Average .. 33% | 7 |