Panic Room Brownstone
Now on digital and dvd.
Panic room brownstone. Meg altman and her daughter sarah address. Trapped in their new york brownstone s panic room a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break ins newly divorced meg altman jodie foster and her daughter sarah kristen stewart play a deadly game of cat and mouse with three intruders burnham. The interiors were shot in manhattan too manhattan beach los angeles that is where production designer arthur max built the giant set within the studio. Panic room now on digital and dvd.
The brownstone where meg altman jodie foster and daughter sarah kristen stewart hole up in the eponymous strong room is 38 west 94th street on new york s upper west side. When city police find a murder victim who was somehow forced to die of overeating it puts veteran detective william sommerset and his new talented but still green partner detective david mills on a desperate hunt for a serial killer who is making statements by staging his victims as tableaus of the seven deadly sins. The term panic room was apparently just coined to add drama to the movie as for meg and sarah at the end we see them on a peaceful bench in central park cruising listings for upper west side apartments not houses and strictly avoiding anything larger than a two bedroom. Fincher mounts some clever tense sequences in which the trio devises increasingly threatening strategies to force meg and sarah out of the panic room only to be matched with improvised ingenuity.
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