Winged Creatures (film)
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Plot
While in a restaurant, Carla Davenport, the restaurant cashier; Charlie Archenault, a driving-school teacher; Bruce Laraby, an emergency room physician; Anne Hagen; her father; and her best friend, Jimmy Jasperson, suddenly hear gunshots. Annie and Jimmy retreat under a table as a suicidal gunman shoots several people (including Anne's father) and then himself. The film shows the aftermath as these five traumatized people struggle to regain their trust in the ordinary world.[4]
Cast
- Kate Beckinsale as Carla Davenport
- Dakota Fanning as Anne Hagen
- Josh Hutcherson as Jimmy Jasperson
- Forest Whitaker as Charlie Archenault
- Guy Pearce as Dr. Bruce Laraby
- Jeanne Tripplehorn as Doris Hagen
- Jennifer Hudson as Kathy Archenault
- Jackie Earle Haley as Bob Jasperson
- Walton Goggins as Zack
- Embeth Davidtz as Jo Laraby
- Troy Garity as Ron Alber
- Robin Weigert as Lydia Jasperson
- Andrew Fiscella as Numbers Man
- Jaimz Woolvett as the Swedish Cook
- Hayley McFarland as Lori Carline
- Soren Fulton as Howard
Reception
In the United States' review aggregator, the Rotten Tomatoes, in the score where the site staff categorizes the opinions of independent media and mainstream media only positive or negative, the film has an approval rating of 45% calculated based on 31 critics reviews. By comparison, with the same opinions being calculated using a weighted arithmetic mean, the score achieved is 4,7/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Sensitive but not insightful, Fragments pieces an ensemble together in the same way Crash did but without the gravitas."[5]
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