The Box (2009 film)

The Box is a 2009 American psychological thriller film based on the 1970 short story Button, Button by Richard Matheson, which was previously adapted into an episode of the 1980s iteration of The Twilight Zone. The film was written and directed by Richard Kelly and stars Cameron Diaz and James Marsden as a couple who receive a box from a mysterious man played by Frank Langella who offers them one million dollars if they press the button sealed within the dome on top of the box. However, once the button has been pushed, someone, somewhere, will die.

At 500 pm, Mr. Steward Frank Langella, a mysterious man with the left side of his face torn off, arrives to deliver a key to the box. He tells Norma that, if the button is pushed, he will give hermillion. However, someone she does not know, somewhere in the world, will die. Arthur, a NASA engineer, disassembles the box to find only a button and nothing under it.Later, Norma and Arthur have ethical and moral arguments about pushing the button, wondering whether a young and ambitious, or old and fragile person will die. Norma decides to push the button. Simultaneously, miles away, a man kills his wife and then flees, leaving their daughter locked in the bathroom. Police are perplexed as to why Jeffrey Carnes Ryan Woodle, a NASA employee like Arthur, shot his wife to death, because they had a happy relationship. ........

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