The group includes the friendly Tom ( Moonlight's Trevante Rhodes), grocer/aspiring doomsday novelist Charlie ( Get Out's Lil Rel Howery), a police academy trainee (Rosa Salazar), an elderly woman (Jacki Weaver), a bleached blonde boy (Colson Baker, better known as rapper Machine Gun Kelly), and sheltered young pregnant woman Olympia (Danielle McDonald), who is due around the same time as Malorie. An abrasive bankruptcy lawyer, Douglas has an even larger than usual chip on his shoulder due to the fact that his third wife has just met a violent end in trying to usher Malorie to safety.įor now, with the windows all covered, these sequestered strangers seem protected from the harrowing apocalypse unfolding outside.
The place belongs to Greg (BD Wong), but his next door neighbor Douglas (John Malkovich) is the one calling the shots and holding the rifle. While Jessica soon joins the afflicted, Malorie finds shelter in a ritsy suburban house. One must only take a look outside to suddenly be irreversibly compelled to end his or her life. On a routine hospital visit, single artist Malorie and her sister Jessica (Sarah Paulson) become aware that the outbreak of mass human suicides in Europe and Russian that is all over the news has made its way to their hometown of Sacramento. We then jump back five years to find Malorie pregnant. The Academy Award-winning actress and seasoned Danish director join forces on Bird Box, which despite their pedigree, the Christmastime debut and awards-qualifying narrow theatrical window is more of a general interest release than a prestige one.Īdapted from the novel of the same name by Josh Malerman, this thriller opens with Bullock's protagonist Malorie cautioning a pair of young children she merely calls Boy and Girl about the dangers that await them on the blindfolded boat ride they are about to embark on.
You can add the names of Sandra Bullock and Susanne Bier to the long and growing list of respected people in the industry who are on board with Netflix original movies being cinema.
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