Send Help
Horror Thriller Comedy English
Two colleagues become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash. On the island, they must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, but ultimately, it's a battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.
| Cast: | Rachel McAdams, Dylan O'Brien, Edyll Ismail, Dennis Haysbert, Xavier Samuel, Chris Pang, Thaneth Warakulnukroh, Emma Raimi, Bruce Campbell, |
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| Director: | Sam Raimi |
| Writer: | Damian Shannon, Mark Swift |
| Editor: | Bob Murawski |
| Camera: | Bill Pope |
All Guild Reviews of "Send Help"
A Delicious Send-Up of Hollywood Survival Thrillers
At once a deliriously funny horror movie and a shockingly scary comedy. Somehow, both tones co-exist without losing the essence of either. It’s an uncanny balance.
Sam Raimi’s Send Help stars Rachel McAdams as Linda Liddle, a disgruntled corporate employee who finds herself stranded on an island with the sexist young CEO of the company after his private jet crashes into the ocean. She’s the better survivalist (Survival is literally her favourite reality series), so the power dynamic is reversed on the island — and she starts to enjoy it a bit too much. Her injured but smug boss, Bradley, begins to rely on her like the volleyball Wilson might have depended on Tom Hanks in Cast Away. She likes his dependence. At some point, the two even threaten to enter romcom territory, what with the days and weeks of cohabiting and building sheds and cooking and hunting together. That’s how it goes: the two enemies fall in love, and their differences are fetishised.
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