Hide and Seek (2005 film)

Hide and Seek is a 2005 American psychological horrorthriller film starring Robert De Niro and Dakota Fanning. It was directed by John Polson. The film opened in the United States on January 28, 2005 and was a massive box office success. However it received mainly negative reviews. De Niro and Fanning received praise for their performances. Fanning received an MTV Movie Award for Best Frightened Performance in 2005.

When a family friend, Dr. Katherine Carson Famke Janssen, comes to visit David and Emily, Emily reveals that she and Charlie have a mutual desire to upset her father. Soon, they meet Laura Melissa Leo and Stephen Robert John Burke who are their neighbors. David is wary of their unusual interest in Emily. He later discovers that the reason for this is that the couple had a daughter who recently died from cancer and looked like Emily. Later, when David visits Laura, she nervously and ambiguously implies that her husband has begun abusing her in response to their childs death, emotionally and perhaps even physically.David meets Elizabeth Young Elisabeth Shue, a local woman, and her niece, Amy, who is roughly the same age as Emily. Hoping to cultivate a new, healthy friendship for Emily, David sets up a play date for her. Amy is anxious to become friends immediately, but the play date is spoiled when Emily cuts up Amys dolls face. After Amy runs out of the house, Emily tells David that she doesnt need any more friends. ........

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