Seven

UPC: 794043698927

Studio: New Line Home Video

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Graphic Violence, Not For Children, Profanity]

Summary: Director David Fincher's dark, stylish thriller ranks as one of the decade's most influential box-office successes. Set in a hellish vision of a New York-like city, where it is always raining and the air crackles with impending death, the film concerns Det. William Somerset (Morgan Freeman), a homicide specialist just one week from a well-deserved retirement. Every minute of his 32 years on the job is evident in Somerset's worn, exhausted face, and his soul aches with the pain that can only come from having seen and felt far too much. But Somerset's retirement must wait for one last case, for which he is teamed with young hotshot David Mills (Brad Pitt), the fiery detective set to replace him at the end of the week. Mills has talked his reluctant wife, Tracy (Gwyneth Paltrow), into moving to the big city so that he can tackle important cases, but his first and Somerset's last are more than either man has bargained for. A diabolical serial killer is staging grisly murders, choosing victims representing the seven deadly sins. First, an obese man is forced to eat until his stomach ruptures to represent gluttony, then a wealthy defense lawyer is made to cut off a pound of his own flesh as penance for greed. Somerset initially refuses to take the case, realizing that there will be five more murders, ghastly sermons about lust, sloth, pride, wrath, and envy presented by a madman to a sinful world. Somerset is correct, and something within him cannot let the case go, forcing the weary detective to team with Mills and see the case to its almost unspeakably horrible conclusion. The moody photography is by Darius Khondji; the nauseatingly vivid special effects are by makeup artist Rob Bottin, best known for more fantasy-oriented work in films like The Howling (1981). ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi

Category: Thriller

Awards: Best Editing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – National Board of Review Best Cinematography – Chicago Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actor (Runner-up) – National Society of Film Critics Best Cinematography – American Society of Cinematographers Best Supporting Actor – National Board of Review

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Seven

Format: DVD

Release Date: 02/03/2004

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: DD-EX Dolby Digital Surround EX (simulated 6.1), DTS-ES Digital Theater Systems, DDS Dolby Digital Surround

Runtime: 127 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: English,French

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
1. The Last Seven Days [4:08]
2. Main Titles [2:08]
3. Monday [1:14]
4. Gluttony [7:13]
5. Somerset Wants Out [2:20]
6. Tuesday [1:04]
7. Greed [3:30]
8. Seven Deadly Sins [2:44]
9. Hitting the Books [5:01]
10. Wednesday [:58]
11. Close Quarters [2:45]
12. A Late Supper [4:15]
13. Forced Attention [4:55]
14. Mrs. Gould [1:09]
15. Help Me [4:10]
16. Thursday [2:35]
17. Sloth [4:06]
18. Feeding Off His Emotions [3:03]
19. Friday [4:16]
20. Methodical, Exacting and Patient [2:34]
21. Who's Reading What [1:39]
22. John Doe [1:27]
23. A Reason to Knock [7:18]
24. I Admire You [5:48]
25. Saturday [3:33]
26. Lust [:57]
27. Apathy Is Easy [3:10]
28. Sunday; Pride [4:49]
29. Surrender [:53]
30. The Deal [2:48]
31. Ready to Move [2:17]
32. You Won't Miss a Thing [1:49]
33. The Chosen One [3:10]
34. It's Close [6:48]
35. The Package [2:12]
36. Envy and Wrath [3:50]
37. End Credits [5:03]

Lucia Bozzola

With its old cop/young cop pair trailing a brilliant psycho, Seven (1995) could have been just another serial killer movie. Director David Fincher's prodigious visual talent for choreographing an atmosphere of grim tension and evocative, partially hidden horrors, however, made it a disturbing foray into human darkness. From the jittery, unsettling credits sequence on, Seven reveals just enough of the grisly murders signifying the Bible's deadly sins, and the extremity of killer John Doe's devotion to his project, to allude to unspeakable terrors without actually showing a lot of violence. Circumspect old-timer Morgan Freeman's dedication and tyro Brad Pitt's fury both mirror the telling responses of their characters, and reveal signs of how tenuous the line is between cop and killer. Enhancing the aura of universal, unfathomable mystery shrouding Seven's unnamed city, Darius Khondji's cinematography creates a neo-noir urban murk of permanently rain-swept streets and deep interior shadows wanly pierced by flashlights that allow Doe to literally hide in plain sight from the audience before he turns himself in. Though the film divided some critics over whether it was stylishly rote depravity or tour de force filmmaking, Seven became a surprise smash, redeeming Fincher after his ill-fated debut feature, Alien 3 (1992). ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Cast and Crew: David Correia  Actor 
Pamela Tyson  Actor 
Leland Orser  Actor 
Reg E. Cathey  Actor 
Michael Massee  Actor 
John Cassini  Actor 
Julie Araskog  Actor 
Brian Evers  Actor 
Richard Portnow  Actor 
Shannon Wilcox  Actor 
Bob Collins  Actor 
Mark Boone, Jr.  Actor 
Dominique Jennings  Actor 
Richard Schiff  Actor 
George Christy  Actor 
John C. McGinley  Actor 
Bob Stephenson  Actor 
Peter Crombie  Actor 
Allan Kolman  Actor 
Lexie Bigham  Actor 
Hawthorne James  Actor 
Charles Tamburro  Actor 
Andrew Kevin Walker  Actor 
Gene Borkan  Actor 
Michael Reid Mackay  Actor 
Tudor Sherrard  Actor 
Harrison White  Actor 
Daniel Zacapa  Actor 
David Fincher  Director 
William C. Gerrity  Producer 
Arnold Kopelson  Producer 
Howard Shore  Composer (Music Score) 
Gianni Nunnari  Executive Producer 
Dan Kolsrud  Executive Producer 
Andrew Kevin Walker  Screenwriter 
Phyllis Carlyle  Producer 
Anne Kopelson  Executive Producer 
Brad Pitt  Actor 
Morgan Freeman  Actor 
Gwyneth Paltrow  Actor 
Kevin Spacey  Actor 
R. Lee Ermey  Actor 
Richard Roundtree  Actor 

Country: USA