The Box

Cast & Crew

Above the line View all

Director
Richard Kelly
Producer
Dan Lin
Producer
Kelly McKittrick
Producer
Richard Kelly
Producer
Sean McKittrick

Cast View all

Norma Lewis
Cameron Diaz
Arthur Lewis
James Marsden
Arlington Steward
Frank Langella
Dana
Gillian Jacobs
Norm Cahill
James Rebhorn

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Production Designer
Alec Hammond
Director of Photography
Steven Poster
Costume Designer
April Ferry
Picture Editor
Sam Bauer

Synopsis

Genre: Horror | Science Fiction

Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger, delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. But, pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world; someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the cross-hairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity. In Theaters October 30th, 2009.

Latest Updates

Diaz Deep Six’s Bubbly Blond Roles For a Darker Part in ‘The Box’

Published on: October 19, 2009

By Shannon Nystedt
movieset.com

You may be use to seeing Cameron Diaz in bubbly blond roles like There's Something About Mary, Charlie's Angels and The Holiday, but recently Diaz has taken an acting 360 to play deeper roles in darker films. Earlier this year, Diaz played Sara Fitzgerald, a protective and tormented mother prepared to do anything to save her cancer-suffering daughter in My Sister’s Keeper, while in her upcoming film The Box, she plays a suburban mother given the choice between a clean conscience, or a million dollars at the cost of a strangers life.

"…When I make a film, I really just do it for myself and the experience I think I might have in them, because that's all I have got. That's the first thing I leave the film with and who knows how the film will go and how people are going to receive it? The experience is mine forever…"

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Cameron Diaz's 'The Box' trailer: Are you button hooked?

Published on: June 25, 2009

EW.com
By: Margaret Lyons

The trailer for the upcoming Cameron Diaz/James Marsden movie The Box is out, and there are so many "outside the box" or "steps into the batter's box" puns to make that I simply cannot choose. BYO box pun.

The movie, based on the Richard Matheson short story, is about a mysterious stranger (rather than those totally explainable ones, you know how it goes) who offers Norma and her husband Arthur $1 million to push a weird button -- which, he says, will kill someone they don't know. Push it? Don't? The human condition/greed/WWJD/where do buttons like that come from/etc then for about two hours.

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