Winged Creatures (film)

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Winged Creatures
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Directed by Rowan Woods
Written byRoy Freirich
Based on Winged Creatures
by Roy Freirich
Produced byRobert Salerno
Starring Kate Beckinsale
Dakota Fanning
Guy Pearce
Forest Whitaker
Jennifer Hudson
Jackie Earle Haley
Josh Hutcherson
CinematographyEric Alan Edwards
Edited byMeg Reticker
Music by Marcelo Zarvos
Production
company
Distributed by Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group
Release dates
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box 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]

Contents

Plot

While in a restaurant, Carla Davenport, the restaurant cashier; Charlie Archenault, a driving-school teacher; Bruce Laraby, an emergency room physician; Anne Hagen; her father; and her best friend, Jimmy Jasperson, suddenly hear gunshots. Anne and Jimmy retreat under a table as a suicidal gunman shoots several people (including Anne'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

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 45% of 31 critics' reviews are positive.The website's consensus reads: "Sensitive but not insightful, Fragments pieces an ensemble together in the same way Crash did but without the gravitas." [6]

References

  1. "Winged Creatures (2009)". Box Office Mojo.
  2. "Roy Freirich author profile". Goodreads. 2009.
  3. "Fragments". Fandango. 2009-08-07. Retrieved 2022-12-12.
  4. Screen, World (May 17, 2007). "WorldScreen.com - Articles - Sony Acquires Rights to Peace Arch Feature Film".
  5. "Movie Review: Fragments/Winged Creatures (2009)". Yahoo! Voices . 2009. Archived from the original on March 8, 2014.
  6. "Winged Creatures". Rotten Tomatoes . Fandango Media . Retrieved August 19, 2025. OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg