Michael Keaton

Michelle Monaghan

Andrew W. Walker

Kaniehtiio Horn

Barry Sloane

Trevor Hayes

Phillip Jarrett

Olivier Surprenant

Timothy Paul Coderre

Jasmine Chan

Namukasa Basudde

Zhaida Uddin

Lindsey Reeves-Whit

James Sainthill

John Hickey

David Breeze

Roger Glidden

Perry Hoffman

Jessie Turner

Eric Putzer

Jesse Clark

Alexandre Champagne

David Loughery

Joseph Ruben

Jeff Sackman

Kathleen Chopin

Sue Fijalkowska

Michael Baker

Ilona Smyth

Maciej Fijalkowski

Matt Gorzkowski

Michael Hanlan

Lisa Soper

Andrew Mondshein

Kayla Manasseri

Tim Winchester

Robert Menzies

David Burns

Matt Friedman

Chris Seager

Mike Flicker

Sarah Deline

Mark Mancina

Shane Boucher

Angie Mills

Layton Morrison

Carolyn Arbuckle

Christina Cattle

Reid A. Dunlop

Albert Camicioli

Michael J. Wechsler

Jasmine Murray-Bergquist

Laura Katz

Garren Dunbar

William Mood

Bob Weinstein

Peter Jurt

Thriller

Drama

Penthouse North

Dimension Films

Demarest Films

United States of America

Ice Ice Baby.

After being rendered blind by a suicide bomber, one time war photographer Sara (Michelle Monaghan), finds love with Ryan (Andrew Walker). But one day her life is once again turned upside down when she is terrorised in her own home...

Distinctly mundane thriller that harks back to other blind women under threat thrillers released previously. Penthouse North (the swanky place where Sara lives with Ryan) brings absolutely nothing new to the formula, not even - in fact - adding a twist or any sort of surprises. It's interesting to take on board the advancements in technology for the blind, though even this aspect is short changed in the run-of-the-mill plot. The villains are a couple of staple writing jobs, with Michael Keaton as Chad phoning it in, while the attempts to make Chad extra nasty are laughably lazy and irresponsible into the bargain.

Monaghan's performance is commendable, she does enough to have you rooting for her whilst enjoying her resourcefulness, and the cinematography (Chris Seager) is most pleasing, both in colour lenses and glorious city scapes. But ultimately, one can forgive implausibilities in a thriller of this type, but not lazy unadventurousness that smacks of film making to fulfil a contract or even as a tax write off job. 4/10

Not only are blind people in the movies always drop-dead gorgeous (unless they’re evil or homeless), but their eyes always are, counterintuitively, their most outstanding feature. Like Sara Taylor (Michelle Monaghan), a photojournalist stationed in Afghanistan whom an explosion leaves permanently blind.

Sara will later be described, unironically, as having a "very pretty face" and "soft green eyes;" so soft and green indeed that one wonders why she bothers wearing a pair of thick, dark sunglasses. Okay, so an IED blows up right in your face with enough force to deprive you of sight forever, yet leaves you otherwise unscarred. That dog won’t hunt, monsignor.

Then again, this is the kind of movie wherein a cat is thrown over the titular penthouse balcony only to reappear right before the closing credits, alive and well at ground level. Granted, it could be any other black cat, in which case the occurrence would be plain random as opposed to unfathomably stupid.

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Penthouse North International Trailer #1 (2013) - Michael Keaton Movie HD