Title: A Little Trip to HeavenRelease Date: 03/13/2007
Label/Distributor: First Look
Rating: R (Restricted)
Retail Price: $24.98
Genre: Horror Cast: Forest Whitaker, Julia Stiles, Jeremy Renner, Alfred Harmsworth
Running Time: 86
DVD Video Options: Closed-captioned, Color, Subtitled
DVD Audio Options: English, Original Language; Spanish, Subtitled
UPC Code: 687797117298
A Little Trip to Heaven
By Ed Hulse -- Video Business, 1/29/2007
FIRST LOOK
Street: March 13, Prebook: Feb. 6
> Perfectly timed to capitalize on buzz surrounding Whitaker.
A bleak-looking, motivationally murky thriller with flashes of mordant humor, Little Trip to Heaven bears a thematic and stylistic resemblance to the Coen brothers'Fargo but isn't nearly as good. Insurance investigator Abe Holt (Forest Whitaker) is dispatched to the scene of a car accident that seems to have claimed the life of a convicted con man. When Holt questions the victim's sister (Julia Stiles), he can tell she's hiding something. Largely shot on desolate locations in Iceland, Trip abounds in plot twists—some predictable, some not—and has a measured pace that nearly proves its undoing.
Shelf Talk: This oddball thriller will benefit from interest in Whitaker following his much-deserved Golden Globe win and Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland.
Thriller, color, NR (mature themes, language, violence), 87 min., DVD $24.98Extras: none
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
First Run: DVD premiere
