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The Return
Directed by
Asif Kapadia
PG-13
2005
85m
Drama
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Thriller
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4.7
15%
32%
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Joanna Mills, a traveling business woman, begins having nightmares of a murder that occurred 15 years ago. Soon she is drawn to an old farmhouse, where the murder took place.
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Cast of The Return
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Joanna Mills
Peter O'Brien
Terry Stahl
Adam Scott
Kurt
Kate Beahan
Michelle
Sam Shepard
Ed Mills
J.C. MacKenzie
Griff
Wally Welch
Snack Stand Vendor
Brad Leland
Mr. Marlin
Darrian McClanahan
Young Joanna Mills
Erinn Allison
Annie
Robert Wilson
Billy
Frank Ertl
Ambrose Miller
Brent Smiga
Higgins
Angela Rawna
Doctor
Bonnie Gallup
Bella
Peyton Hayslip
Laraine
Ben Hamby
Extra
Erica Jones
Additional voices
Glori Renee Euwer
Nurse
The Return Reviews
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
The horror movie workhorse Sarah Michelle Gellar is back to chill us with The Return, a rote thriller with an intriguingly frenetic shooting style.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
As B-level suspensers go, though, The Return isn't actively awful -- just slow and cursed with a lead who acts with her T-shirt.
Los Angeles Times
Sam Adams
The Return universally fails to establish any sense of reality, which makes it hard to register when Joanna's world starts falling apart.
AV Club
Keith Phipps
[The Return is] more haunting than it has any right to be, thanks to its love of long, lonesome highways and the way the violence of the past bleeds into the present.
Entertainment Weekly
Gregory Kirschling
Mellow -- nay, snoozy -- atmospherics trump actual scares, and it makes almost zero sense.
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
The Return isn't the worst movie of the year -- or even in the top 10. But it's hard to imagine anyone seeing this movie and thinking they got their money's worth.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Gellar, who isn't bad with comedy, can't do drama, even in the chocolate-colored hair she wears this time.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Since Adam Sussman's script is as lazy as Asif Kapadia's direction is disjointed, nothing ever makes sense, even after the anticlimatic explanation is revealed. Not even Gellar can work up any interest in Joanna's fate.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
Sarah Michelle Gellar may have ditched the Grudge franchise, but her predilection for illogical horror continues with The Return.
UGO
Brian Tallerico
The Return is a slow burn that's often way too slow, feeling stretched to meet a running time that's still under 90 minutes.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
This murky psychological horror effort is not likely to inspire a return.
Variety
Dennis Harvey
Time-killer chiller reps an undistinguished U.S. debut for U.K. helmer Asif Kapadia, though the undernourished script may be most at fault.
Filmcritic.com
Keith Breese
a low point in the on-going battle to scare U.S. teens from their allowances
FEARnet
Scott Weinberg
Austerely directed but shamelessly dry, uneventful and derivative.
Movies for the Masses
Joseph Proimakis
full review in Greek
Detroit Free Press
John Monaghan
Sarah Michelle Gellar battled countless monsters as Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Her biggest challenge in The Return is to keep from yawning.
Sacramento News & Review
Jim Lane
...merely a good ending in search of a proper build-up.
E! Online
Maidel Barrett
Why is Sam Shepard in this movie?
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