Fragile (2005 film)
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| Fragile | |
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.jpg/200px-Fragile_(movie).jpg) movie poster of Fragile |
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| Directed by | Jaume Balagueró |
| Produced by | Julio Fernández Joan Ginard |
| Written by | Jaume Balagueró Jordi Galcerán |
| Starring | Calista Flockhart Elena Anaya |
| Music by | Roque Baños |
| Release date(s) |  October 14, 2005 July 15, 2006 July 13, 2007 February 22, 2008 |
| Running time | 93 minutes 102 minutes (Japan) |
| Country | Spain, United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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Frágiles (International English Title: Fragile) is a 2005 Spanish horror film directed by Jaume Balagueró. It was filmed between Barcelona, Spain and the Isle of Wight, England. The movie has had several release dates around the world since its original release in October 2005.
[edit] Plot
Amy Nicholls is the new night nurse at the Mercy Falls Hospital on the Isle of Wight. Her colleague Helen Perez introduces her to the eight children. These are the only patients in the deprecit hospital, which still operates only because of overload after a railway accident. Very mysterious is the orphan child Maggie, which suffers from cystic fibrosis. The girl talks about a Charlotte who is said to haunt the second floor, which is abandonded since 1959.
One day Amy is stuck in the elevator with the young patient Simon, who suffered a double femoral fracture. Caretaker Roy cannot help her. Amy comes to know that Maggie was friends with her predecessor Susan who resigned because she was afraid. When Amy goes to Susan's home, she comes to know that the nurse died in a traffic accident. After watching a Sleeping Beauty animated feature of 1959, Maggie talks about kissing with Amy.
Later the young nurse talks about the afterlife with two old women and gets a butterfly image from an autistic boy. She is desperate to solve the mystery about Charlotte. When Roy tries to pack the dice, which Maggie uses to communicate with Charlotte, he dies.
On the second floor, in a room decorated with butterflies, Amy finds an old photo which shows a girl in a wheelchair together with a nurse and a film which show this girl at a medical treatment of Osteogenesis imperfecta. Amy tells doctor Robert that she saw the “mechanical girl”. Thereupon they begin to prepare the stampede.
When Amy is looking for help, she comes to know that the nurse at that time broke the girl's bones and murdered the child. Then the nurse wearing the girl's frame hurled herself into the shaft of the elevator. Robert finds a file which reveals that the girl was called Mandy; Charlotte was the nurse.
While the others flee, Maggie has gone upstairs again to get her blankie. Amy saves her from Charlotte's ghost, but Maggie dies in her arms. Amy averts her death at the last moment - by a kiss from Maggie.
[edit] Cast
| Actor | As... |
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| Calista Flockhart | Amy Nicholls |
| Richard Roxburgh | Robert Marcus |
| Elena Anaya | Helen Perez |
| Gemma Jones | Mrs./Dr. Folder |
| Yasmin Murphy | Maggie |
| Colin McFarlane | Roy |
| Michael Pennington | Marcus |
| Daniel Ortiz | Matt |
| Susie Trayling | Susan |
[edit] External links
- Fragile at the Internet Movie Database
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