Proxy
2013 · Movie · NR · 122 min · ★ 5.5 · 61% critics
After a brutal attack destroys a pregnant woman's sense of safety, she finds comfort in a support group for grieving parents. As new bonds form, the film turns into a dark, slow-building thriller about loneliness, unstable behavior, and how dangerous shared trauma can become.
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Details
- Years
- 2013
- Release date
- 2014-04-18
- Language
- English
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 122 min
- Critic score
- 61/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.5/10 (112 votes)
About
You may like this if you want a bleak, unsettling psychological thriller with big shocks and an off-kilter mood, somewhere between Rosemary's Baby and Shut In; Not for you if you dislike graphic violence, ambiguity, or very dark themes.
Pros: eerie atmosphere; unpredictable turns; disturbing premise | Cons: slow pacing; confusing story; uneven performances
Themes
- loss of loved one
- support group
- raid
- pregnant woman
- mugging
- retaliation
- murder by gunshot
- lesbian
- unborn baby
Cast & crew
Alexia Rasmussen
as Esther Woodhouse
Kristina Klebe
as Anika Baron
Alexa Havins
as Melanie Michaels
Joe Swanberg
as Patrick Michaels
Brittany Wagner
as Counter Girl
Faust Checho
as Detective Allen
Erika Hoveland
as Mary Wilkens
Kitsie Duncan
as Support Victim
Jim Dougherty
as Store Manager
Mark A. Nash
as Anchorman
Directed by Zack Parker