So says Kate (Sophia Myles), the love interest at the center of “Mister Foe.” She’d better, because the guy she’s flirting with is one of the creepiest. Seems that troubled teen Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell ...
Covered with animal skins and war paint, peering through rooftop windows at a mother surrogate, the deeply distressed Hallam Foe suggests the ultimate Lost Boy himself, Peter Pan. Clambering around ...
On November 11, 2008, Magnolia Home Entertainment will release Mister Foe on DVD. Based on the novel Hallam Foe by Peter Jinks, Jamie Bell stars as the troubled and isolated Hallam Foe, who while ...
It’s not just films like Southland Tales—the shoot-the-moon disasters—that deserve disdain. Superficially psychological dramas like David Mackenzie’s Mister Foe can be just as sloppy, pretentiously ...
”I like creepy guys,” says Kate Breck (Sophia Myles) in a bar, after one too many drinks, to the young lad named Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell). In Mister Foe — a pervy and poignant tale of a boy on the ...
Young Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) is convinced that his stepmother (Claire Forlani) accelerated her upward trajectory from dad’s secretary to dad’s wife by offing his mom, but the coroner says it was ...
Talk about an Oedipus complex. Hallam Foe, the title character of this strange and striking film, ends each day by saying good night to a poster-sized photograph of his mum. He stalks and then starts ...
For English beauty Sophia Myles, 2006 represented a sort of coming-out party, with the period-piece romance Tristan & Isolde and the vampire-and-werewolf action sequel Underworld: Evolution, plus a ...
Mister Foe centers on the eponymous 17-year-old Hallam (Jaime Bell), having a fantasy life and grieving over his dead mother some time after her suicide, hiding out in a tree house on his family’s ...
With a bit of Freudian sexual dysfunction in relation to oedipal desires, as well as the typically cinematic manifestation of said dysfunction in the scopophilic and voyeuristic manner often ...