Synopsis
Matthew, a young advertising executive in Chicago, puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his life who left him without a word two years earlier, walking out of a restaurant one day.
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Cast
- Josh HartnettMatthew
- Rose ByrneAlex
- Matthew LillardLuke
- Diane KrugerLisa
- Christopher CousinsDaniel
- Jessica ParéRebecca
- Vlasta VranaJeweller
- Amy SobolEllie
- Ted WhittallWalter
- Isabel Dos SantosChamber Maid
Recommendations
- 75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The film is stylish, the compromising elements that usually junk up a Hollywood "date movie" are nowhere to be seen, the ensemble of supporting actors is strong and, despite a certain woodenness, Hartnett is appealing and mostly very believable. - 50
Chicago Tribune
To work, it has to make us feel crazy with love, like "Vertigo" did. Instead, it often just makes us feel crazy for believing any of it. - 40
Village Voice
Dippy romantic thriller. - 40
The New York Times
The French original was a clever Hitchcock homage with a murder at its center. For reasons unknown, the murder plot has been dropped from the remake (though a few confusing traces of it remain), which leaves Wicker Park without much real urgency to drive its extremely contrived plot. - 38
New York Daily News
Structure overwhelms everything, but it's not as if Wicker Park has nothing to say. It's full of ugly truths about emotional frailty, and implies that stalking is a bad thing only when you're not charming enough about it. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
May have been adapted the 1996 French film "L'Appartement," but pretty much all evidence of what was once an engaging psychodrama has been lost in the translation. - 30
Los Angeles Times
An elegant tale of romantic obsession weighed down by a needlessly convoluted plot that yields far more confusion than psychological suspense. - 25
Miami Herald
The whole incoherent mess is sort of like a downbeat Gap ad, only longer and a lot more boring.
