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| Sinister looks and shadows and darkness lurk on this poster for Pieter Kuijpers' Off Screen |
A mad bus driver takes a couple of men as hostages in a skyscraper in Amsterdam. He wants to talk to the CEO of Philips...
Off Screen is written by Hugo Heinen (Stroomopwaarts (1991)) and directed by Pieter Kuijpers (Godforsaken/Van God Los (2003)).
The strange story doesn't succeed in hooking our interest due to the depressing focus on the thankless life of the bus driver. Abused and spat upon, he becomes paranoid. Voilà. This seems apparent and not worth an hour and a half of our precious time in a film that uses numerical graphics to seem to give us the uncertainty: Could the bus driver with his paranoia be onto something real?
SPOILER No he isn't and it's a dull ugh time to watch Off Screen.
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Cost: 1.5 mil. €, approximately 1.48 mil. $
Box office: 998k $
= Huge flop (returned 0.67 times its cost)
[Off Screen was released 3 February (Netherlands) and runs 94 minutes. Shooting took place in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The film opened #9 in Netherlands, where it peaked at #6 and grossed 998k $ as the only recorded market, though the film was also released in Belgium. Kuijpers returned with Dennis P. (2007). Jeroen Krabbé (Farinelli (1994)) returned in Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005); Jan Decleir (Loft (2008)) in Matroesjka (2008, TV-series) and theatrically in Someone Else's Happiness/Een Ander Zijn Geluk (2005). 1.3k+ IMDb users have given Off Screen a 6.6/10 average rating.]
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