Additional information for The Box, which has a domestic theatrical release set for November 6, 2009. The film is being distributed by Warner Bros Pictures and has not yet been rated. The Box has a total running time of 115 minutes.
PG-13
USA
K-13
Finland
12A
UK
12
Switzerland
M
Australia
PG
Canada
15A
Ireland
12
Netherlands
PG
Singapore
IIA
Hong Kong
11
Sweden
M/12
Portugal
B
Mexico
PG-13
Philippines
G
Japan
14
Brazil
13
Argentina
PG-13
Malaysia
15
South Korea
16
Germany
115min
Kutija
Croatia
Kutija
Serbia
La caja
Mexico
La caja
Spain
La caja mortal
Argentina
La caja mortal
Chile
The Box
France
The Box
Italy
Το Κουτί
Greece
Посылка
Russia
A Caixa
Brazil
A doboz
Hungary
Kutu
Turkey
La boîte
Canada
Laatikko
Finland
Laegas
Estonia
Presente de Morte
Portugal
The Box - C'è un regalo per te...
Italy
The Box - Du bist das Experiment
Germany
The Box. Pulapka
Poland
To kouti
Greece
September 17, 2009
Sweden
October 29, 2009
Australia
October 31, 2009
Finland
November 04, 2009
Belgium
November 04, 2009
France
November 06, 2009
Canada
November 06, 2009
Spain
November 06, 2009
Sweden
November 06, 2009
USA
November 12, 2009
Malaysia
November 12, 2009
Slovenia
November 19, 2009
Russia
November 19, 2009
Ukraine
November 20, 2009
Estonia
November 20, 2009
Romania
November 27, 2009
Iceland
December 03, 2009
Lebanon
December 04, 2009
Ireland
December 04, 2009
UK
December 11, 2009
Bulgaria
December 11, 2009
Denmark
December 11, 2009
Mexico
December 17, 2009
Croatia
December 24, 2009
Kazakhstan
December 31, 2009
Kuwait
January 13, 2010
Egypt
January 14, 2010
Israel
January 15, 2010
Finland
January 21, 2010
Hungary
January 28, 2010
Singapore
February 04, 2010
Czech Republic
February 04, 2010
Netherlands
February 18, 2010
Germany
March 04, 2010
Greece
March 04, 2010
Peru
March 10, 2010
Philippines
March 19, 2010
Poland
March 26, 2010
Brazil
March 26, 2010
Turkey
April 14, 2010
Argentina
April 15, 2010
Argentina
May 08, 2010
Japan
July 21, 2010
Italy
August 26, 2010
Portugal
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A small wooden box arrives on the doorstep of a married couple, who know that opening it will grant them a million dollars and kill someone they don't know.
The film begins with a CIA internal memo being typed across the screen. It states that a man named Arlington Steward (Frank Langella) has recovered from severe burn wounds and is delivering units related to the Mars project.The film then opens up in 1976 with Norma (Cameron Diaz) and Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) cuddling in bed and awaking at 5:45 am as the doorbell rings. Norma goes downstairs and looks through the peephole, seeing a black car drive off. Upon opening the door, she sees a package on her doorstep. Inside, she and her husband find a wooden box with a button protected by a glass dome, locked with a key, and a note, reading Mr. Steward will come at 5:00 pm. Norma and Arthur then enjoy a nice breakfast with their son, Walter (Sam Oz Stone).Arthur goes to work at NASA, where he works in optics, and helped in designing the camera on the Viking Mars probe. He finds he has been rejected from the astronaut program due to the fact that he failed the psychological exam.Norma goes to her job as a teacher at an elite private school teaching literature, where they are discussing Sartre's vision of Hell. One of her students remarks on her limp, after which she shows her class her disfigured right foot, missing four toes. After class Norma is informed by her boss that she will no longer be getting a discount for tuition and won't be able to pay for school for her son. Later that day Norma returns home and Arlington Steward appears at their door. Half of his face is missing. Norma looks at the clock and realizes it is 5:00 pm.Arlington says that if she or her husband pushes the button, someone in the world that they do not know will die, and they will receive one million dollars. Arlington hands Norma a $100 bill from the brief case of money, and says she gets to keep it if the button is pushed or not. Arlington leaves and tells her she has 24 hours. Arthur returns and Norma tells him what has happened.After much discussion about whether or not they should press the button, and some tinkering with the box (Arthur finds nothing inside it), Norma suddenly jerks forward and hits it. The button rises slightly.Arlington returns and presents Norma and Arthur with the million, without asking whether they pressed the button or not. He informs that they will not know who will receive the offer next, and implies that Arthur, Norma, or their son will be the ones to die. Arthur storms after Arlington and attempts to return the million, but Arlington drives off. Arthur gets his license plate number.A 911 call is shown, where someone has been shot. The police enter the house and find a woman shot through the heart, and a little girl locked in the bathroom upstairs.Arthur and Norma then attend a wedding rehearsal dinner, where Arthur is instructed to select a present from a table (secret Santa). A waiter (who happens to be the student of Norma's who prompted her to reveal her disfigurement), holds up two fingers to Arthur. Arthur then sees a box much like the one left on their doorstep, with the button in it. This time, there a photograph of Arlington inside.Norma's sister tells Arthur that the student Arthur saw was the one who made fun of his wife's foot. Arthur meets and asks Norma's dad (who is a police officer) to run the license plate number of Arlington's car. Norma receives a phone call (she is informed by a waiter whose nose begins to bleed as he's leading her to the phone). It is Arlington, who scolds her for allowing her husband to make contact with the police (Arlington somehow knows Arthur has spoken to Norma's father). Arthur angrily approaches the student from Norma's class and yells at him for making fun of Norma. He then storms out of the party, with Norma following him. As they start their car, they see "No Exit" (the title of the Sartre play they went to see earlier) written into the frost on their windshield.When they get home, Arthur takes their babysitter, Dana, home. Dana had earlier gone down into the basement with their son Walter, to see Arthur's Mars collection. She notices the picture of everyone who worked on the development of the camera. As they are driving, Dana acts strangely, asking Arthur strange questions such as "Whats pushing your buttons?" and comments like "Look into the light." Her nose begins to bleed and she passes out. Arthur attempts to wake her up and finds her driver's license, which shows her name is not Dana, but Sara, and she is from Boston. He reaches the motel, where "Dana" has been staying and she wakes up with a start. She tells Arthur it's not safe for him there, and to look in the mirror because that's the only place with the answer. She then hurries away. In the motel, every door she passes opens and a startled looking person stares her down. She reaches her room, where she has a large map and pictures of Arthur, Norma, and Walter.At home Arthur looks at the large picture in the basement, and sees that Arlington (prior to his injury) is in the photo.At a supermarket, Norma is approached by a panicked woman who tells her to look up a certain call number in the library, and not to trust her husband, before passing out with a bloody nose. Arthur finds out that Arlington's license plate is registered to the NSA. He asks Norma's father if he can go with him to see the house where the shooting mentioned earlier took place. Once there, he finds pictures of Arlington and a picture of a Human Resources book, and a library call number. Arthur learns that the woman was shot at 4:45 PM, the same time Norma pushed the button.Norma and Arthur both visit the library, separately. Norma avoids Arthur, as instructed by the woman in the supermarket. Norma find a film reel, which shows Arlington prior to his disfigurement. Arthur is followed by a crowd of startled looking people. He finds himself in a large hall filled with more scared looking people. He approaches a woman he learns is Arlington's wife, and she tells him to follow her. He is presented with three "gateways," made of hovering water. Two lead to eternal damnation, one to salvation. Remembering the student who held up two fingers, Arthur picks gate two. He enters the water and finds himself whirling through whiteness.Norma is also led by two hollow looking women to Arlington. He asks her how she felt when she saw his disfigurement, and she says she felt love, because of her foot. She says that she felt bad for herself because of her foot, and seeing someone with a face disfigurement made her realize she would never feel sorry for herself ever again. Many years ago, her brother had dropped a barbell on her foot and when she went to the doctor he put it in an X-ray machine and forgot about her, destroying the tissue in four of her toes. Arlington informs Norma that he was struck by lightning, and can now communicate with "those who control the lightning." Norma begins to cry and Arlington takes her hand.Norma is suddenly lying on her bed, with Arthur suspended above her in the same hovering water he stepped into earlier. Norma moves away just before Arthur falls out of the water. The water falls too, going all the way down their stairs. When cleaning up, Walter demands to know what is going on. Norma and Arthur do not answer him.More drama occurs and eventually, at the wedding of Norma's sister, their son Walter is kidnapped. Arthur is taken away by a gun-toting former employee of NASA. He is the same man who shot his wife, as earlier seen in the 911 call. He reveals to Arthur that he had to choose between his wife or his daughter. He asks if it was him or Norma that pushed the button and he replies that his wife also pushed the button. He shows Arthur the book seen earlier in the picture, and the water portals or "triptychs." The book is some sort of manual. They are then stopped by a man in a Santa Claus uniform, ringing a bell. As the two men are trying to figure out what is going on, they are hit by a large truck.We then see Arthur emerge from a NASA warehouse, which has been surrounded by military. He is taken away and told by his NASA friend that everything that happens next will have great ramifications. Arthur and Norma return home and see Arlington in their kitchen. He informs them they face two final options. Their son, Walter, is now deaf and blind. They can either live on with their million dollars, and their disabled son, or Arthur can shoot Norma through the heart, at which point Walter's sight and hearing will be restored and the million will be placed in a high interest bank account for Walter to be held in trust until his eighteenth birthday.We learned earlier in a warehouse full of startled people, when Arlington's minion questioned him, that Arlington's employers are testing the human race to see if they are worth keeping.Arlington leaves, telling Norma and Arthur on his way out that their son is in the bathroom, locked upstairs. The two of them run upstairs and try to get him out, but cannot because he can't hear them pounding on the door. They decide that they must make a choice, and Norma leads Arthur downstairs.Another couple is sitting at a table with a box unit, staring at it with content, wondering whether they should push it. Walter and Norma are crying and hugging each other, and say goodbye.Walter shoots Norma, and the police arrive. He runs upstairs and sees his son is back to normal. It is implied that this process will go on and on.Arlington arrives at the other couple's house and hands them the million.Arthur's NASA friend informs him he and his son will be taken care of, as Arthur is escorted away by men in uniforms, who put him into a black car before driving off. Arthur's son looks down at Arthur leaving in that black car. Arlington then comes out of the house of other couple to whom he had given the $1 million, and the film ends.
Richard Kelly
Director(s)
Richard Kelly
Richard Matheson
Writer(s)
Sue Baden-Powell
executive producer
Terry Dougas
executive producer
Ted Field
executive producer
Ted Hamm
executive producer (as Edward H. Hamm Jr.)
Richard Kelly
producer
Paris Kasidokostas Latsis
executive producer
Dan Lin
producer
Sean McKittrick
producer
Producer(s)
Win Butler
Régine Chassagne
Owen Pallett
Composer(s)
Norma Lewis
Cameron Diaz
Arthur Lewis
James Marsden
Arlington Steward
Frank Langella
Norm Cahill
James Rebhorn
Dick Burns
Holmes Osborne
Walter Lewis
Sam Oz Stone
Dana
Gillian Jacobs
Lana Burns
Celia Weston
Clymene Steward
Deborah Rush
Rhonda Martin
Lisa K. Wyatt
Martin Teague (as Mark Cartier)
Mark S. Cartier
Wendell Matheson
Kevin Robertson
Rebecca Matheson
Michele Durrett
Vick Brenner
Ian Kahn
Charles
John Magaro
Jeffrey Carnes
Ryan Woodle
Don Poates
Basil Hoffman
NASA Executive #1
Robert Harvey
Chief Engineer
Gentry Lee
Black Op
Andrew Levitas
Waiter
Gabriel Field
Detective Starrs
Frank Ridley
Police Officer #1
Daniel Stewart Sherman
Police Officer #2
Matthew C. Flynn
Police Officer #3 (as Patrick Eugene Canty)
Patrick Canty
Timothy
Sam Blumenfeld
Malcolm
Kevin DeCoste
Female Neighbor
Mary Klug
Suzanne Weller (as Allyssa Maurice)
Allyssa Brooke
Estelle
Danielle Heaton
Garcin
Michael Zegen
Inez
Rachael Hunt
Female 911 Operator
Cheryl McMahon
Deborah Burns (as Evelina Oboza)
Evelina Turen
Dr. Earl Stupe
Bill Buell
Santa Claus
Paul Marini
Doctor Y (as Don Warnock)
Donald Warnock
Doctor Z
W. Kirk Avery
Employee
Don Hewitt
Employee
Floyd Richardson
Director(s)
Richard Matheson
Writer(s)
executive producer
Terry Dougas
executive producer
Ted Field
executive producer
Ted Hamm
executive producer (as Edward H. Hamm Jr.)
Richard Kelly
producer
Paris Kasidokostas Latsis
executive producer
Dan Lin
producer
Sean McKittrick
producer
Producer(s)
Régine Chassagne
Owen Pallett
Composer(s)
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