Winged Creatures | |
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Directed by | Rowan Woods |
Written by | Roy Freirich |
Based on | Winged Creatures by Roy Freirich |
Produced by | Robert Salerno |
Starring | Kate Beckinsale Dakota Fanning Guy Pearce Forest Whitaker Jennifer Hudson Jackie Earle Haley Josh Hutcherson |
Cinematography | Eric Alan Edwards |
Edited by | Meg Reticker |
Music by | Marcelo Zarvos |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $39,171 (Foreign)[1] |
Winged Creatures (released as Fragments on DVD) is a 2008 psychological drama directed by Rowan Woods and starring Kate Beckinsale, Dakota Fanning, Josh Hutcherson, Guy Pearce, Forest Whitaker, Jennifer Hudson, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Embeth Davidtz. It is an adaptation of Roy Freirich's novel Winged Creatures.[2] It was released on DVD by Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group in the United States on August 4, 2009, as Fragments.[3][4]
While in a restaurant, Carla Davenport, the restaurant cashier; Charlie Archenault, a driving-school teacher; Bruce Laraby, an emergency room physician; Annie 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 Annie's father) and then himself. The film shows the aftermath as these five traumatized people struggle to regain their trust in the ordinary world.[5]
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."[6]