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2011 · thriller · crime · drama · survival

Trespass

Directed by Joel Schumacher1h 31m2011
ElsewhereIMDb5.347kRT9%Metacritic37
  • heavy
  • extreme
  • twisty
Movie DNA

Heavy, steady, extreme thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Kyle and Sarah Miller have it all: a huge gated house on the water, fancy cars, and the potential for romance in their relationship. He's just back from a business trip and their teen daughter Avery is sneaking out to a party, when four thugs in security uniforms and ski masks stage a home invasion. They want what's in the safe: cash and diamonds. As Kyle stalls them, trying to negotiate for Sarah's freedom, the fault lines in Kyle and Sarah's marriage and the pasts of the four robbers come into play. Is there room here for heroism?

Our read · Trespass (2011) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded thriller · crime · drama entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a claustrophobic home-invasion thriller with Cage and Kidman fighting back.

ends triumphantit leaves you shakengrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencedrug usejump scares

Skip it tonightSkip if overheated performances, hostage tension, and B-movie chaos annoy you.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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