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Show all (5)Norma and Arthur Lewis are a suburban couple with a young child who receive an anonymous gift bearing fatal and irrevocable consequences. A simple wooden box, it promises to deliver its owner $1 million with the press of a button. However, 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 crosshairs of a startling moral dilemma and face the true nature of their humanity.
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“The Box’’ almost squeezes the non-anatomical part your stomach that tenses up in moments of dread. Considering how long it’s been since a movie’s gotten near that part of my stomach, that’s not an insignificant “almost.’’ James Marsden and a twangy Cameron Diaz, looking like a Pan-Am flight attendant, play Arthur and Norma Lewis. A package appears on the doorstep of their 1976 Virginia home. It’s a small wooden chest topped with a red game-show button. Not much later a man calling himself Arlington Steward (Frank Langella) arrives with instructions but without a section of his face (he looks like one of those life-size anatomical cutaways). (Full review)