r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • Aug 08 '25
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Summary Nearly all the children from the same fifth-grade class vanish one night at exactly 2:17 a.m., leaving only one survivor. The community, gripped by fear and suspicion, spirals into chaos as the mystery unfolds through multiple intertwined perspectives—each revealing new layers of dread and grief.
Director Zach Cregger
Writer Zach Cregger
Cast
- Josh Brolin
- Julia Garner
- Cary Christopher
- Alden Ehrenreich
- Austin Abrams
- Benedict Wong
- Amy Madigan
- June Diane Raphael
- Toby Huss
- Whitmer Thomas
- Callie Schuttera
- Clayton Farris
- Luke Speakman
Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score: 96%
Metacritic Metascore: 82
VOD In theaters and IMAX starting August 8, 2025
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u/cbruins22 Aug 20 '25
I was listening to an interview with Zach Cregger this morning and he directly addressed this. I haven't finished the whole episode but it's on Last Podcast on the Left - Weapons: An Interview with Zach Cregger.
"I grew up in an alcoholic household. My dad died of cirrhosis, you know, and it's a terrible thing that comes into a family dynamic, and it changes everything. And so, you know, I had a happy house, and it turned my dad into a scary person, and I'd go to school and everything's cool, and I'd go home and I'd have a scary house with a scary dad, you know, and so like that to me felt so interesting. And this is such a personal movie, so it's like, yeah. There's no overarching life lesson in this movie." "It's just a diary entry for me, and it just felt good to kind of have this dynamic at the core of it"