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The best I've seen....

I've read about this movie and I just wanted to see for myself how good this movie really is. And I must say, this is one of the best one I've seen.
I love this movie and Matthew Macfadyen did a real good job. So did the rest of the cast. I would recommend this movie to everyone I know.

In My Father's Den

This is a haunting story of missed chances, misunderstandings and an effort to heal the past by changing the future. We follow the plot as it twists and turns through a series of flash backs mixed with present events. Returning after seventeen years to attend his father's funeral, Paul (Matthew MacFadyen) now a world famous photo-journalist, must finally face the horrors of the past and ultimately confront the reason he ran away so long ago. Much is revealed within his flash backs- some of which he has repressed, and they slowly close in on him. Mistrusted and openly disliked by some, possibly because he managed to escape the small town, he befriends 16 year old Celia, in whom he recognizes pieces of himself. She feels as out of place in this small minded town as he did and still does. Condemned for his friendship, he still nurtures her aspirations to leave this claustrophobic environment. When he finds she is the daughter of his old girlfriend and she was born eight months after his departure, he confronts her mother but gets no satisfactory answer. The relationship grows into a playful yet protective, parental one. When she disappears, he is the first suspect. As his flashbacks intensify, they become more horrifying and much of the truth is revealed. The house of cards must fall leaving devastation in their wake. Yet there is still alive, a tiny spark of hope, that after all he has suffered,like the Phoenix, he just may rise from the ashes. I highly recommend this multi- award winning film. It will haunt long after the end credits roll.

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Awesome!

This movie is one of the best movies I seen in a long time. The actors do a wonderful job and the storyline is complex. It really is as great as all the reviews say it is. I can't really even describe how great it is other then it is really freaking awesome.

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Wonderful acting! Intriguing plot!

Matthew Macfadyen is simply a superb actor. I was intrigued by him in Spooks, delighted by him in The Way We Live Now, and bewitched body and soul (sorry, I couldn't resist...) in Pride & Prejudice. But In My Father's Den shows the true depth of his talent.

War journalist Paul Prior returns home for his father's funeral having left at age seventeen. Staying on to help his brother Andrew (Colin Moy, Riverworld) clear out the house, Paul is inundated with memories of his childhood; his relationship with his father, his mother's suicide and affair with ex-girlfriend Jackie (Jodie Rimmer, Snakeskin). At the center of all of these memories is his father's den - a secret room filled with books and atlases which he discovered as a boy and where he dreamed of traveling the world.

Taking a temporary teaching position at the local school, Paul befriends ex-girlfriend Jackie's sixteen year old daughter, Celia (Emily Barclay). When Celia goes missing, Paul is the prime suspect.

The ending is gut wrenching.

Emily Barclay's debut is excellent, but without question, Matthew Macfadyen's acting makes this movie. I really look forward to seeing more of his acting in the future.

Macfadyen has the ability to make you forget you're watching a movie and isn't that what all actors should aspire to?

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Great Britain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: English (Dolby Digital 2.0), ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SYNOPSIS: In My Father's Den (2005), a universally acclaimed New Zealand feature, swept over 15 international honors and virtually owned the 2005 New Zealand Film Awards. This intelligently crafted, penetrating drama travels in the footsteps of such masterpieces as The Myth of Fingerprints, In the Bedroom, and The Son's Room by detailing an indigenous, scarred family's attempt to heal from age-old wounds. The haunting story begins with war journalist Paul (Matthew MacFadyen), who returns to his childhood home to bury his father. Although few words are spoken, the pain and resentment of past traumas continue to sear and burn in Paul's mind, and become rapidly evident via Paul's struggles to interact normally with his brother (Colin Moy) and eerily laconic sister-in-law (the celebrated Miranda Otto). Upon moving into a local cottage, Paul feels somewhat validated and encouraged when he inadvertently (and innocently) befriends a teenager, Celia (Emily Barclay), an intelligent girl with a love of books who starts to borrow volumes from Paul's personal library; they share a distaste for the community and its people, and a difficulty with social adjustment. But when Celia goes missing, and all fingers in the narrow-minded, gossip-ridden small town point in Paul's direction, the bough starts to break for the young man. In an effort to clear the accusations, Paul starts an informal investigation, from which the unspoken secrets of his family's past and the mystery of Celia's absence will ultimately dovetail into a tragic discovery. SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu,

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