Bird Box

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Directed by Susanne Bier
Produced by Dylan Clark, Clayton Townsend, and Chris Morgan
Screenplay by Eric Heisserer Based on the novel by Josh Malerman

With: Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, John Malkovich, Sarah Paulson, Jacki Weaver, Rosa Salazar, Danielle Macdonald, LilRel Howery, Tom Hollander, Machine Gun Kelly, BD Wong, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Vivien Lyra Blair, Julian Edwards, Parminder Nagra, and Rebecca Pidgeon

Cinematography: Salvatore Totino
Editing: Ben Lester
Music: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Runtime: 124 min
Release Date: 21 December 2018
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Color: Color

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Sandra Bullock heads up the most random ensemble cast since the days of Irwin Allen in an atrociously scripted and unimaginatively shot hodgepodge of post-apocalyptic genre tropes. Who says TV movies are a thing of the past? They are alive and well at Netflix.

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