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Ana Claudia Talancón, Colin Hanks, Jordana Spiro, Jonathan Trent

A quiet but disturbed young man puts the life of a woman he's obsessed with under a virtual microscope in this independent psychological thriller. Amy (Ana Claudia Talancón) is an attractive young wom... read more read more...an who has recently broken up with her boyfriend and is feeling a bit lonely. Amy isn't so sure she's ready to start dating again, but she keeps bumping into Doug (Colin Hanks), a geeky but friendly guy who goes out of his way to be nice to her and seems to have very similar tastes and interests. Amy establishes a friendship with Doug even through he's awkward and not really her type, but Amy's best friend, Jennifer (Jordana Spiro), senses that there's something not quite right about Doug. And Jennifer is right -- Doug is a high-tech stalker who has wired Amy's apartment with a number of inexpensive security cameras and listening devices and constantly watches her, studying her tastes, her habits and her emotions as well as looking in as she sleeps and showers. Alone With Her is shot entirely from the perspective of Doug's cameras, so we see the film's events as he sees them, and are frequently made aware that each scene represents another invasion in Amy's privacy. Alone With Her received its world premiere at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 19 min.

Directed by: Eric Nicholas

Release Date: January 17, 2007

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DVD Release Date: May 22, 2007

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  • LorenzoVonMatterhorn
    June 21, 2009
    LorenzoVonMatterhorn
    "Anytime. Anywhere. He's watching."

    In Los Angeles, the psychopath Doug stalks the sexy Latin woman Amy is a park and follows her.

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    Shot entirely using body cams and spy cams, the mo... read morevie attempts to explore the horror of the increase in stalking due to the advances in and availability of technology. The movie begins with a stalker, played by Colin Hanks, filming women at the beach and at the park, obviously searching for a victim. He chooses a girl, played by Ana Claudia Talancón, and begins following her, planting cameras in her apartment and slowly inserting himself into her life, using the knowledge he gained from the cameras to find common ground. I could see what the writer/director was trying to accomplish, but it was not entertaining enough to hold my interest without taking breaks. The acting was mostly convincing, although there were some spells of poor acting. The ending seemed very film-school and amateur.
  • kiriyamakazou
    March 27, 2009
    kiriyamakazou
    Stalker thriller where we are shoved right into the stalker's perspective. Shot entirely through secret cameras this is similar to other "real" films such as Blair Witch and Cloverfield. Hanks does well in the lead, but is also too recognisable to have the desired affect. He's pl... read moreeasant, creepy and sympathetic. Many of his plans work surprisingly well, which sometimes destroys the illusion. Though Amy is supposedly a naive and vulnerable soul, so it does make sense most of the time. The film checks all the boxes for any thriller and the only real difference is how it's filmed. Well made and engrossing for it's 78 minutes.
  • fb1144932598
    October 4, 2008
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    Creepy little movie that will make you think twice about that nice guy you just met at the coffee shop. Especially if he seems a little "off". Doug (Colin Hanks) secretly installs cameras all over the house so he can watch Amy (Ana Claudia Talancon) as she goes about her day (and... read more night). I thought the exclusive use of surveillance cameras brilliant as it added to the sleaze quotient. Not a lot of surprises as one can easily guess what's coming, but still well enough done that it manages to keep the tension level high throughout. May cause single women living alone to rethink their living arrangements. Watch the alternate ending (in the extras) so you can sleep easier.
  • wbgoose13
    January 21, 2007
    wbgoose13
    Rote voyeur thriller rarely feels like more than an exercise.
  • lovablemisanthrope
    November 19, 2008
    lovablemisanthrope
    Awesome filming concept, but I felt that the movie was lacking.
  • jimbotender
    September 9, 2008
    jimbotender
    Intriguing but over the top little independent flick.I was stunned with the sole candid camera preference of showing the events but afterward it's tiring and..suddenly..where you expect the utter climax,it's just monotonous in the set-up of things.Remarkable acting by Talancon an... read mored some great ideas though in this chilling (thanks to the obsessive psycho) tale of physical/mental abuse.
  • cacutshaw
    July 22, 2007
    cacutshaw
    Decent, slow burn, creepy stalker flick. Probably scarier for females than males, the way it tells the story through hidden cameras (planted by the stalker) is reminiscent of My Little Eye. Plus, there's a couple shots where Colin Hanks looks the spittin' image of his daddy.
  • fb555928095
    April 2, 2012
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    A slow build thriller that plays more on creepiness than gore, brutality, or violence, Alone with Her is a relatively quiet but profoundly unsettling found-footage horror film about a stalker and the object of his adoration.
  • jk2two
    July 24, 2011
    jk2two
    Alone with Her is a first-hand look into the life of a stalker - fully equipped with all of the "widely available" digital spy stuff from the internet. Doug (Tom Hanks' brother Colin) singles out young Latina Amy (Talancon), and starts to follow her every move. As the audience we... read more are given a direct window into all of the hidden camera footage - nicely edited for our convenience. The two leads are really what makes this sucker tolerable, because it would be boring and weak without their performances. One has to hand it to first-time writer / director Eric Nicholas - he came up with an inventive (and economical) way to tell a somewhat typical and derivative story. Alone with Her is so real and natural that one can believe this stuff actually happens. That guy Doug actually exists somewhere, and he's not an easy guy to like. For that reason, it's actually a bit unsettling to watch this at times so, mission accomplished I guess...
  • lhillman979
    February 28, 2009
    lhillman979
    This movie was soooooo creepy. I just kept thinking I wonder if someone it doing this to me. If you want to be freaked out watch this movie.

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Critic Reviews

Lael Loewenstein
May 26, 2007
Lael Loewenstein, Los Angeles Times

Alone With Her is a pretty engaging tale, and it's refreshing to see a well-acted, suspenseful drama made without a bloated budget or a lot of bloodletting. Full Review

Richard Roeper
February 5, 2007
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

Alone With Her plays like an extended voyeur video with nothing new to say about hidden cameras or stalkers or anything.

January 25, 2007
New York Magazine

... this low-budget horror flick builds some claustrophobic tension out of modern anxieties, but it won't scare the bejesus out of you. Full Review

Ronnie Scheib
January 24, 2007
Ronnie Scheib, Variety

Leadenly scripted and blandly overliteral and therefore never capitalizes on the provocativeness of its premise. Full Review

Jack Mathews
January 19, 2007
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News

Alone With Her has the kind of high ick factor that leaves you squirming -- not because Doug is so diabolical a creation, but because what he does to satisfy his pathology is so practical. Full Review

Frank Scheck
January 19, 2007
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter

For all its technological ingenuity, however, the film is ultimately a fairly routine stalker thriller that soon becomes repetitive in its contrivances. And the footage, necessarily shot on digital vi...

Jan Stuart
January 18, 2007
Jan Stuart, Newsday

A B-picture waiting to cut loose in its final 15 minutes, when it devolves into generic stalker-thriller theatrics of the Julia-Roberts-in-distress kind. Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
January 17, 2007
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

A Blair Witch Project for the new, surveillance-obsessed millennium. Full Review

Matt Zoller Seitz
January 17, 2007
Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Times

Writer and director Eric Nicholas's latest film, Alone With Her, is a voyeuristic thriller that is fiendishly assured yet ultimately less than the sum of its parts. Full Review

Lou Lumenick
January 17, 2007
Lou Lumenick, New York Post

Far superior to the generic thrillers churned out by the big studios. Full Review

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