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'The Box' filmmaker Richard Kelly pushes his viewers' buttons

Filmmaker Richard Kelly's initial encounter with Richard Matheson's fiendish little short story Button, Button -- about a cash-strapped couple offered a million dollars to push a button on a box that will instantly cause someone they don't know to drop dead -- came not on the page, but on TV.

• Review | The Box (PG-13) ***