Winged Creatures (film)

"Fragments (film)" redirects here. For the 1991 Croatian film, see Fragments: Chronicle of a Vanishing.

2008 American film

Winged Creatures

Theatrical release poster

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

Peace Arch Entertainment

Distributed by| Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group

Release dates

* June 24, 2008 (2008-06-24) (Los Angeles Film Festival)
* July 31, 2009 (2009-07-31) (United States)

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]

## Plot

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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.[5]

## Cast

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* 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

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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]

## References

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1. ^ "Winged Creatures (2009)". Box Office Mojo.
2. ^ "Roy Freirich author profile". Goodreads. 2009.
3. ^ "Fragments". Fandango. 2009-08-07. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
4. ^ Screen, World (May 17, 2007). "WorldScreen.com - Articles - Sony Acquires Rights to Peace Arch Feature Film".
5. ^ "Movie Review: Fragments/Winged Creatures (2009)". Yahoo! Voices. 2009. Archived from the original on March 8, 2014.
6. ^ "Fragments". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 10 September 2022.

## External links

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* Winged Creatures at IMDb

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Films directed by Rowan Woods

* The Boys (1998)
* Little Fish (2005)
* Winged Creatures (2008)

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