Genre:
Drama/Horror/Thriller
Directed by:
Chan-wook Park
Starring:
Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode,
Nicole Kidman
Release date:
Fri 01, Mar 2013
Stoker is a 2013 British-American
psychological thriller directed by Park Chan-wook and written by Wentworth
Miller. It stars Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, and Nicole Kidman. It was
released on March 1, 2013. It was the last movie produced by Tony Scott, who
died during production.
During her 18th birthday, India
Stoker (Mia Wasikowska)'s life is turned upside down after her loving father
Richard (Dermot Mulroney) dies in a horrific car accident. India is then left
with her estranged unstable mother Evelyn (Nicole Kidman). At Richard's
funeral, Evelyn and India are introduced to Richard's charming and charismatic
brother Charlie (Matthew Goode), who has spent his life traveling the world. He
then announces that he is staying indefinitely to help support India and
Evelyn, much to Evelyn's delight and India's chagrin.
Shortly after Charlie moves in,
India witnesses him argue with Mrs. McGarrick (Phyllis Somerville), the head
caretaker of the house. Mrs. McGarrick then disappears and is never seen again.
Charlie and Evelyn grow closer and intimate while India continues to rebuff
Charlie's attempts to befriend her. Later, India's great aunt Gwendolyn (Jacki
Weaver) arrives to visit the family, much to Evelyn and Charlie's dismay. At
dinner, Gwendolyn grows suspicious of Charlie's claims of traveling the world
and tells Evelyn that she needs to talk to her about Charlie.
Later that night, Gwendolyn changes
hotels due to an unexplained fear and suspicion of Charlie. However, she loses
her cell phone and tries to call the Stoker home from her hotel payphone. While
making her call, Charlie tracks her down and corners her in the phone booth,
seeming to be upset. He hands Gwendolyn her phone and then strangles her to
death with his belt after explaining that he found her through the cab company.
Meanwhile, India goes into the basement to eat ice cream and discovers Mrs.
McGarrick's body in the freezer, realizing that Charlie murdered her, as well.
After India discovers that Charlie
is a killer, she unleashes her inner aggression at school and stabs a bully,
Chris Pitts (Lucas Till), in the hand with a pencil after he makes sexually
derogatory remarks at her about Evelyn. This draws the attention of another
classmate, Whip Taylor (Alden Ehrenreich). India goes home and later witnesses
Evelyn and Charlie growing intimate and wonders off to a local diner where she
runs into Whip. She and Whip go into the woods where they proceed to make out
until India aggressively bites Whip. Whip then attempts to rape India until
Charlie rescues India and breaks Whip's neck with his belt. India then aids
Charlie in burying the body in her garden. She then attempts to call Gwendolyn,
but hears her phone ring deep in the garden, realizing Charlie killed her, too.
India takes a shower and experiences a sexual awakening, masturbating to the
memory of the murder, climaxing as she remembers Charlie breaking Whip's neck.
Later, India goes through Richard's
office to gather things of his she wants to keep. She discovers that a key she
received as a birthday present belongs to a locked drawer to Richard's desk.
Inside, she finds several letters from Charlie, which detail his travels.
However, India discovers that the letters are all lies after finding the
sending address on the back of the envelopes are from a mental institution.
India then confronts Charlie who explains the truth: Charlie murdered his and
Richard's younger brother Jonathan as a child because he was jealous that
Richard paid more attention to him over Charlie. Charlie was then locked in a
mental institution for several years. When released on India's 18th birthday,
Richard gave Charlie a car, a generous amount of money, and an apartment in New
York to cut off ties with him and prevent him from meeting India. Feeling hurt
and betrayed, Charlie beat Richard to death with a rock and staged the car
accident.
At first, India is in shock and
angered. However, she seemingly forgives Charlie and grows closer after he
provides an alibi for India when Sheriff Howard (Ralph Brown) questions her
about Whip's disappearance. They grow close to intimate before Evelyn witnesses
them. Later that evening, Evelyn coldly expresses her desires to watch India
suffer before confronting Charlie about how she knows the truth about him.
Charlie seduces Evelyn and then attempts to strangle her before India appears
and fatally shoots Charlie in the neck with a hunting rifle. She then buries
Charlie's body in the backyard and proceeds to leave for New York in his car.
She is shortly pulled over for
speeding by Sheriff Howard, who then asks her why she's in a hurry. India replies
she wanted to catch his attention before plunging a pair of garden shears into
his neck. India then follows the bleeding sheriff into a field and is last seen
aiming her rifle in his direction.
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References.
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