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Red Riding Hood
Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when Valerie's older sister is killed by a werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. Panic grips the town as Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast--one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect ... and bait.
2011 · Directed by Catherine Hardwicke · 100 min · Thriller · Drama · Fantasy · Mystery · Horror · Romance · Screenplay in the scene database · 13 frames
Tagline
Who's afraid?
Plot
Valerie lives with her parents, Cesaire and Suzette, and older sister Lucie in Daggerhorn, a village on the edge of a forest plagued by a Wolf that is also a werewolf. She is in love with her childhood friend Peter, a local woodcutter, but her parents arrange for her to marry Henry, son of the wealthy blacksmith Adrien Lazar. Valerie and Peter plan to elope, only to learn the Wolf has broken its truce not to prey on the townspeople and murdered Lucie.
The preacher Father Auguste calls upon the famous witch hunter Father Solomon for help, but the townspeople decide to venture into the Wolf's lair to kill it. As the village celebrates, Father Solomon declares that the slain animal is a common grey wolf, as the true werewolf would have reverted to human form.
Father Solomon's men isolate Daggerhorn and investigate the villagers to uncover the Wolf's identity. That night, the Wolf attacks, and the townspeople shelter in the church while Valerie and her friend Roxanne search for Roxanne's developmentally disabled brother, Claude. When the two become cornered by the Wolf, Valerie discovers she can understand him, who threatens to kill Roxanne and destroy the village if Valerie does not leave with him. It escapes, vowing to return for her decision.
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Crew
- Written by: David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick
- Cinematography: Mandy Walker
- Edited by: Julia Wong, Nancy Richardson
- Music: Alex Heffes, Brian Reitzell
- Production design: Thomas E. Sanders
- Produced by: Julie Yorn, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson
Cast
- Amanda Seyfried as Valerie
- Gary Oldman as Father Soloman
- Billy Burke as Cesaire
- Shiloh Fernandez as Peter
- Max Irons as Henry Lazar
- Julie Christie as Valerie's Grandmother
- Lukas Haas as Father August
- Virginia Madsen as Suzette
- Shauna Kain as Roxanne
- Michael Hogan as The Reeve
Production
- Country: Canada, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Appian Way, Random Films, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Budget: $42,000,000
- Box office: $89,162,162
- Themes: winter, fairy tale, little red riding hood, hood, werewolf, aftercreditsstinger, duringcreditsstinger, woman director, tense, romantic
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