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The Hitcher (2007 film)
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| The Hitcher | |
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| Directed by | Dave Meyers |
| Produced by | Michael Bay Andrew Form Brad Fuller |
| Written by | Jake Wade Wall Eric Bernt |
| Starring | Sophia Bush Sean Bean Zachary Knighton Neal McDonough |
| Music by | Steve Jablonsky |
| Cinematography | James Hawkinson |
| Editing by | Jim May |
| Distributed by | Rogue Pictures |
| Release date(s) | January 19, 2007 |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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The Hitcher is a 2007 remake of a 1986 horror film of the same name. The film is rated R for strong bloody violence, terror and language. The movie was planned to be released on April 13, 2007, but due to the early production it moved to February 9, 2007, and then to January 19, 2007.
The Hitcher was produced by Michael Bay’s production company Platinum Dunes, which also produced the remakes of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Amityville Horror.
Dave Meyers made his feature directorial debut on the film.
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The movie debuted at #4 on the Box office with $7,818,239 made in the opening week. After three weeks the movie placed #11 at the Box Office and subsequently made $16,366,370. 5 weeks after its nationwide release, The Hitcher had been pulled from most screens due to its poor performance at the box office and low reviews. The Hitcher begins its international release on March 1, 2007.
The DVD will be released May 1st 2007. The film itself will be presented in 2.40:1 anamorphic widescreen, along with English and French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround tracks. Extras will include:
- deleted scenes
- a Road Kill: The Ultimate Car Crash featurette
- a Fuel Your Fear: The Making of The Hitcher featurette
- a Chronicles of a Killer featurette
- Dead End feature.
A HD DVD combo release will also be available for $39.98
Grace Andrews (Sophia Bush) and Jim Halsey (Zachary Knighton) are tormented by a mysterious hitchhiker named John Ryder, a.k.a. The Hitcher (Sean Bean).
The young couple hit the road in a 1970 Oldsmobile 442, on route to spring break. Ryder dangerously stands on the road, near his car, which apparently has broken down. After passing they worry that they might have hit him. However, they do not want to check it out and give him a ride, because the man could be a criminal.
Later they meet him at a gas station, and he asks Jim for a ride. Reluctantly Jim agrees. In the car he turns out be a psychopath. Ryder threatens to kill Grace if Jim does not say that he likes to die. Jim manages to throw Ryder out of the car.
Later Jim and Grace see Ryder as passenger in another car, with a couple and two children, a boy and a girl. Jim drives alongside to warn the family for Ryder, not properly watching the traffic. A truck from the opposite direction almost crashes into them. In evading this the car ends up wrecked off the road.
Jim and Grace continue on foot and see the family's car, with the father dying and the mother and two children already dead. They drive the car trying to save the father. Ryder shows up driving a truck and unsuccessfully tries to run them off the road. They stop at a cafe. The father dies here. While Grace is in the toilet Ryder shows up there, but disappears again. Jim and Grace are arrested, suspected of the killings, and brought to the police station. There Ryder shows up and kills all three policemen. Jim and Grace take a gun and flee on foot.
A policeman arrives and tries to arrest them, but with the gun they manage to prevent that and take his gun. From some distance Ryder kills the policeman. The couple takes the policecar, and is chased by police in three cars and a helicopter, suspecting Jim and Grace of killing the policeman. Ryder appears and shoots at the police, who all crash and die.
The couple sneaks into a motel room and has a shower. While Jim is out to make a phone call at a payphone (the phone in the room only works through the front desk) Ryder shows up and there is a fight with Grace.
Ryder disappears and captures Jim, and ties him between a truck and its trailer. Grace, armed with a gun from the police station, finds Ryder seated in a truck, ready to tear Jim in half by moving it. Grace threatens to shoot him if he hurts Jim, but Ryder indicates that the truck will move if she kills him. He insists that she does so anyway, just as the police arrives. Grace is unable to kill Ryder. He swears: "what a waste", and moves the truck, killing Jim.
Ryder is taken into custody and Grace is brought to the police station for examination. During the transportation, Ryder manages to escape and kill the police force, resulting in the police car crashing. Grace and the police chief, who have been following behind, are caught in the crash. Grace decides to kill Ryder herself because "[she]'s done running", but he traps her inside the crashed police vehicle, firing at the leaking gas to make it explode.
Ryder kills the police chief while Grace manages to grab a dead police's shotgun and escape from the vehicle just after it explodes. While Ryder walks away, she shoots him in the back and in the chest, wounding him. She approaches him and aims the shotgun at his head. He says to her "Feels good, doesn't it? ", but she replies with "I don't feel a thing" before shooting him in the head, killing him.
Grace walks off the screen as the credits begin to roll.
The Hitcher, starring Sophia Bush and Sean Bean, will be on sale as of May 1st 2007. The DVD, featuring the theatrical R-rated cut, will be presented in 2.40:1 anamorphic widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1 tracks. Extras include deleted scenes, "Fuel Your Fear: The Making of The Hitcher," "Chronicles of a Killer," "Dead End" and "Road Kill: The Ultimate Car Crash" featurettes. Trailers round out the set. Also look for a DVD/HD-DVD combo release day and date. Retail is $29.98 and $39.98, respectively.
- Sophia Bush... Grace Andrews
- Sean Bean... John Ryder
- Zachary Knighton... Jim Halsey
- Neal McDonough... Lieutenant Esteridge
- Lauren Cohn... Marlene
- Skip O'Brien... Harlan Bremmer, Sr.
- Travis Schuldt... Harlan Bremmer, Jr.
- Yara Martinez... Beth
- Danny Bolero... Officer Edwards
- Michael J. Fisher... Police Officer
- Damon Carney... Negotiator
- Kyle Davis... Crazy store clerk
- Kit McGuire... Motel desk clerk
- Jeffrey Hutchinson... Young Father
- Kurt E. Soderling... Helicopter co-pilot
- Brad Robinson... Correction Officer #1
- Rutger Hauer (who played the original hitcher) was originally planned to have a cameo in the beginning of the movie.
- Despite being a remake of The Hitcher, the plot of this film bears much more resemblance to its direct to video sequel The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting.
- Wes Craven was lined up to direct but pulled out.
- During early development, Kirsten Dunst was set to play Grace.
- Zachary Knighton's first major lead role film.
- When the couple is leaving Austin, they are shown accidentally heading towards Houston, TX on U.S. Highway 290 instead of heading West towards New Mexico.