Winged Creatures (film)

2008 American film

June 24, 2008 (2008-06-24) (Los Angeles Film Festival)
July 31, 2009 (2009-07-31) (United States)

Running time

100 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBox office$39,171 (Foreign)^[1]

Winged Creatures (released as Fragments on DVD) is a 2008 psychological drama directed by Rowan Woods and starring Kate Beckinsale, Dakota Fanning, Josh Hutcherson, Guy Pearce, Forest Whitaker, Jennifer Hudson, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Embeth Davidtz. It is an adaptation of Roy Freirich's novel Winged Creatures.^[2] It was released on DVD by Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group in the United States on August 4, 2009, as Fragments.^[3]^[4]

Plot

While in a restaurant, Carla Davenport, the restaurant cashier; Charlie Archenault, a driving-school teacher; Bruce Laraby, an emergency room physician; Annie Hagen; her father; and her best friend, Jimmy Jasperson, suddenly hear gunshots. Annie and Jimmy retreat under a table as a suicidal gunman shoots several people (including Annie's father) and then himself. The film shows the aftermath as these five traumatized people struggle to regain their trust in the ordinary world.^[5]

Cast

Kate Beckinsale as Carla Davenport
Dakota Fanning as Annie Hagen
Josh Hutcherson as Jimmy Jasperson
Forest Whitaker as Charlie Archenault
Guy Pearce as Dr. Bruce Laraby
Jeanne Tripplehorn as Doris Hagen
Jennifer Hudson as Kathy Archenault
Jackie Earle Haley as Bob Jasperson
Walton Goggins as Zack
Embeth Davidtz as Jo Laraby
Troy Garity as Ron Alber
Robin Weigert as Lydia Jasperson
Andrew Fiscella as Numbers Man
Jaimz Woolvett as the Swedish Cook
Hayley McFarland as Lori Carline
Soren Fulton as Howard
Mae McGrath as the swag bystander
Nick Farrell as swag bystander's wife and son

Reception

In the United States' review aggregator, the Rotten Tomatoes, in the score where the site staff categorizes the opinions of independent media and mainstream media only positive or negative, the film has an approval rating of 45% calculated based on 31 critics reviews. By comparison, with the same opinions being calculated using a weighted arithmetic mean, the score achieved is 4,7/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Sensitive but not insightful, Fragments pieces an ensemble together in the same way Crash did but without the gravitas."^[6]

References

^ "Winged Creatures (2009)". Box Office Mojo.
^ "Roy Freirich author profile". Goodreads. 2009.
^ "Fragments". Fandango. 2009-08-07. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
^ Screen, World (May 17, 2007). "WorldScreen.com - Articles - Sony Acquires Rights to Peace Arch Feature Film".
^ "Movie Review: Fragments/Winged Creatures (2009)". Yahoo! Voices. 2009. Archived from the original on March 8, 2014.
^ "Fragments". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 10 September 2022.