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Canada, United Kingdom · 1999
Rated PG-13 · 1h 56m
Director Atom Egoyan
Starring Bob Hoskins, Elaine Cassidy, Arsinée Khanjian, Peter McDonald
Genre Drama
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Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Hilditch, a helpful catering manager whose kindness masks a sinister past. Slowly, it is revealed that the caterer has befriended and abused more than a dozen young women, and Felicia is set to be the next victim.
Philadelphia Inquirer by Carrie Rickey
In this, Alfred Hitchcock's centenary year, Felicia's Journey so startlingly channels the obsessions of the late director that it might be the greatest Hitchcock movie the master of suspense never made.
Portland Oregonian by Diana Abu-Jaber
In this film, shadowy seams of brutality, loss and grief are traced beneath bright layers of tree boughs, children's laughter and high, empty windows.
San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann
There's tremendous maturity and skill in Felicia's Journey but also a sense of impending horror that's bound to repel some audience members -- even though the violence is all implied.
Film.com by Elizabeth Weitzman
Intelligent thriller--turns-- into an embarrassing gothic horror show.
Mounted as an art film and is likely to divide both critics and the helmer's fans.
Charlotte Observer by Lawrence Toppman
Deep as a Canadian lake: Below the placid surface, menacing creatures swim around unseen.
As with all of Egoyan's films, this new one comes cloaked in an atmosphere of dread, but for the first time there's no real purpose, intellectual or emotional, to all the free-floating anxiety.
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
A rare example of a literary film that preserves the best of its source while creatively filling up on it.
Miami Herald by Rene Rodriguez
All of Egoyan's movies have revolved around characters with damaged, fragile psyches, but rarely have they been illustrated as deftly -- and as gracefully -- as in Felicia's Journey.
A movie this implausible shouldn't be this dull.
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