Role: Cydney
Genre: Thriller adventure
Director: David Twohy
Written by: David Twohy
Running time: 107 min (Unrated cut), 97 min (Theatrical cut)
Budget: $14 million
Release Date: August 7, 2009
Additional Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Kiele Sanchez, Steve Zahn
Synopsis
Cliff and Cydney (Milla) are an adventurous young couple celebrating their honeymoon by backpacking to one of the most beautiful, and remote, beaches in Hawaii. Hiking the wild, secluded trails, they believe they’ve found paradise. But when the pair comes across a group of frightened hikers discussing the horrifying murder of another newlywed couple on the islands, they begin to question whether they should turn back. Unsure whether to stay or flee, Cliff and Cydney join up with two other couples, and things begin to go terrifyingly wrong. Far from civilization or rescue, everyone begins to look like a threat and nobody knows whom to trust. Paradise becomes hell on earth as a brutal battle for survival begins…
Reception
LA Times:
“Milla Jovovich takes a turn toward ‘normal’ in A Perfect Getaway”: “My priorities have shifted completely, which has helped my career because there’s this new peace that I have,” says the mother, with fiance filmmaker Paul W.S. Anderson, of 21-month-old daughter Ever. “If I never did anything again, I would be a mom and I’d be totally happy being a mom. Everything has fallen into place so beautifully because I’m not trying so hard. If my daughter’s OK, I can concentrate on something else. So it’s not like all day I’m thinking about me.”
MetroNews.ca:
“There’s an element when you are out dealing with nature around you that definitely as an actor I think is a lot easier than say, (if) this whole set was a jungle on a soundstage. The whole energy changes, you’re not projecting as much (on a soundstage) and people are like, ‘remember there’s wind and remember the rain.’”
Sunday Herald (Scotland) August 16, 2009:
“Being a mother is so much more than you could ever imagine. Having a baby is the most incredible thing I’ve ever done as a person and the biggest single teacher in the world for me is my child. I have found a different side of myself. I’m much more relaxed and patient than I ever thought I’d be. Also, I’m much less insecure. My daughter has brought me so much confidence in what I do. I have this responsibility and she’s number one in that sense. It’s made me care much less about other things. When you care a lot, you worry all the time about whether you’re good enough, and that fuels insecurities.”
Discussing The Fourth Kind: “The Fourth Kind is set in Alaska in this very small town that has had a lot of attention from the FBI, because there’s been a lot of disappearances and no one has been able to find out why. I play a young psychologist whose husband has killed himself. And with all these strange disappearances she thinks it might be aliens. It was interesting for me to see how a completely sane person, like this psychologist, could believe so sincerely that aliens are taking people. I thought that was fascinating.” She smiles. “I myself don’t believe in aliens.”
Discussing Keep Coming Back: “We had started filming on that, but the movie’s kind of fallen apart again because I have to get into Resident Evil: Afterlife. But I’m hoping that by next year things get better with the economy and smaller movies will have an easier time getting financed again. It’s been an uphill battle for us. I was the first actor to get involved with the project. William contacted me about the movie in November last year, so we’ve been trying to get it off the ground for a while.”
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Release
The film grossed $5,948,555 in its opening weekend within America.Worldwide, its grossing stands at $22,852,638. Its first week in the United Kingdom saw the film make £418,703 and reach number 10 at the UK box office.
The film was released in the United States on 7 August 2009. The unrated director’s cut DVD and Blu-ray were released on 29 December 2009.