Panic Room (2002)

Panic Room rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb6.8/10· 313K votes

Rotten Tomatoes76%

Metacritic65%

TMDb6.791/10· 5K votes

With 76% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.8/10 on IMDb and 65/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been positive.

About Panic Room

Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.

Cast of Panic Room

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  Jodie Foster

  as Meg Altman

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  Kristen Stewart

  as Sarah Altman

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  Forest Whitaker

  as Burnham

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  Dwight Yoakam

  as Raoul

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  Jared Leto

  as Junior

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  Patrick Bauchau

  as Stephen Altman

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  Ann Magnuson

  as Lydia Lynch

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  Ian Buchanan

  as Evan Kurlander

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  Andrew Kevin Walker

  as Sleepy Neighbor

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  Paul Schulze

  as Officer Keeney

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  Mel Rodriguez

  as Officer Morales

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  Richard Conant

  as SWAT Cop

Panic Room facts

Budget

$48M

Box office

$197.1M

Our take on Panic Room

David Fincher's 2002 crime thriller traps newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah inside their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary against break-ins. During a brutal home invasion, they play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders — Burnham, Raoul and Junior — with a cruel twist: what the intruders want is locked inside the room with them. Fincher wrings tension from a single confined location, using cold, precise craft to make architecture itself feel menacing. Best for viewers who enjoy tightly controlled thrillers, mounting claustrophobia and clever spatial cat-and-mouse over sprawling plots or graphic excess.