--- title: 'The Box (2009)' type: 'film' director: 'Richard Kelly' released: '2009-01-01' runtime_minutes: 115 genres: - 'Drama' - 'Science Fiction' - 'Thriller' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-box-2009' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362478/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Box (2009) 2009 · 115 min · Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller · United States ## Synopsis The Box is a 2009 American science-fiction thriller film written, produced, and directed by Richard Kelly, and starring Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, and Frank Langella. It is based on the 1970 short story "Button Button" by Richard Matheson. The film follows a couple receive a box from a mysterious man (Langella) who offers them one million dollars if they press the button sealed within the dome on top of the box but tells them, once the button is pushed, someone they don't know will die. ## Credits - **Director:** [Richard Kelly](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-kelly) - **Screenplay:** [Richard Kelly](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-kelly) - **Producer:** [Richard Kelly](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-kelly) - **Original Music Composer:** [Owen Pallett](https://cinepixo.com/people/owen-pallett), [Win Butler](https://cinepixo.com/people/win-butler) - **Director of Photography:** [Steven Poster](https://cinepixo.com/people/steven-poster) - **Editor:** [Sam Bauer](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-bauer) ## Cast - [Holmes Osborne](https://cinepixo.com/people/holmes-osborne) - [Jenna Lamia](https://cinepixo.com/people/jenna-lamia) - [Andrew Levitas](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrew-levitas) - [Cameron Diaz](https://cinepixo.com/people/cameron-diaz) - [James Marsden](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-marsden) - [James Rebhorn](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-rebhorn) - [Celia Weston](https://cinepixo.com/people/celia-weston) - [Gillian Jacobs](https://cinepixo.com/people/gillian-jacobs) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Official site: http://www.luckyred.it/thebox/ Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-box-2009 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1346258); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.