Godsend
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Godsend |
| Original title | Godsend |
| Country of production | USA , Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nick Hamm |
| script | Mark Bomback |
| production |
Marc Butan Sean O'Keefe Cathy Schulman |
| music | Brian Tyler |
| camera | Kramer Morgenthau |
| cut |
Steve Mirkovich , Niven Howie |
| occupation | |
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Godsend is a US-Canadian film directed by Nick Hamm from 2004. The film opened on July 8, 2004 in German cinemas.
action
After the accidental death of their son Adam, which occurs one day after his eighth birthday, the parents, Paul and Jessie Duncan, are taken over by Dr. Richard Wells of the "Godsend Institute" visited. He claims to be able to clone her son. They accept the professor's offer, but since the process is illegal, they leave town and cut off all contacts in order to cover it up.
The fertilization succeeds. The reborn Adam is celebrating his eighth birthday, ignorant of the things that have happened. He keeps having nightmares and visions of horror in which he sees a boy in a school. Adam becomes alarmingly violent and the situation escalates when he drowns a classmate in a stream. Adam's father is now looking for Dr. Wells to talk to him about how the surgery went badly. In the course of the film it is shown that Dr. Wells added the DNA of his own dead son Zachary Clark to reproduce Adam . It follows that Adam has a split personality: Adam Duncan and Zachary Clark. Paul Duncan, after researching the school from Adam's dreams and talking to Zachary Clark's nanny, finds out that Zachary set the school on fire, killed his mother, and then continued playing in his room. He perished in the fire he started. Paul introduces Dr. Wells in a church and is struck down by it. Adam and his mother are meanwhile at home, where Adam finds photos of his original. When Zachary's martial side emerges in him, he runs away. Jessie follows him into the woods where there is an old, abandoned cabin. Before Adam can kill his mother with the help of an ax, as Zachary did with his own mother, Paul appears and stops him at the last second.
Six months later, Dr. Wells read newspapers that wrote about his disappearance and searched obituaries for his name. Meanwhile the Duncans are moving into a new house. There, after a long time, Adam apparently has a horror vision again, and Zachary pulls him into his closet. The film ends when Paul and Adam leave the room.
Reviews
The film was criticized as unsatisfactory because there are some gaps in content, especially at the end of the film. The promotion via the website for the fictitious Godsend Institute (see Background ) was also criticized.
The magazine prisma asked why “a world star like De Niro gives up for this crazy mystery bullshit from Nick Hamm”. The film crosses "any self-imposed logical limit" and is "unnecessary".
"A speculative horror film without a formal sense of cut and rhythm, which works with realistic fears, rejecting any scientific basis and allowing the topic to slide into the esoteric."
backgrounds
To better promote the film, the production company Lions Gate Films had opened a website to represent the "Godsend Institute" depicted in the film. The head of the institute claims to be able to bring the dead to life. Soon Lions Gate Films was asked to make a website change to state that the site was only an advertisement for the film. Some people had previously reported to the production company and other agencies. They wanted to find out whether the institute really existed and whether they had the opportunity to clone people.
Web links
- Godsend in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official page ( page no longer available )
- Godsend at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Godsend at Metacritic (English)
- Fictional side of the "Godsend Institute"
- Godsend in the German dubbing file