Emmett's Mark (2002)

In order to avoid the debilitating effects of a terminal illness, a young detective orders a hit on himself.

Director:

Keith Snyder

Writer:

Keith Snyder

Stars:

Scott Wolf, Greg Wood, Gabriel Byrne

7 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Scott Wolf	...	Emmett Young
Greg Wood	...	Dr. Dan Kilbannon
Ira Hawkins	...	Det. Birch
Khandi Alexander	...	Det. Middlestat
Adam LeFevre	...	Officer Jim Fields
Danielle Mason	...	Laurie Meyers
John Doman	...	Capt. Berman
Benjamin John Parrillo	...	Det. Chris Ricks
Katrina Law	...	Francine
Gabriel Byrne	...	Jack Marlow / Stephen Bracken
Sarah Clarke	...	Sarah
Tim Roth	...	John Harrett / Frank Dwyer
Rhonda Overby	...	Anchorwoman
Wendy Grantham	...	Young officer In Records
Talia Balsam	...	Suzanne

Storyline

In the Philadelphia police department, Emmett Young is a hotshot, a workaholic newly promoted to homicide. He learns he has a disease that will soon kill him painfully, so he hires a stranger to arrange his own death. With one eye on the calendar (he's allowed a few days' grace before his murder), he pursues a final case, the serial killing of young women. Emmett develops a profile of the assailant. Meanwhile, his fixer hires an ex-cop to kill Emmett, a lonely security guard whom the fixer taunts and belittles. In this limited time, can Emmett sort out what's important?

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Plot Keywords:

ex cop | homicide | detective | terminal illness | murder | 

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Genres:

Drama | Crime | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for some violence and language

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

10 October 2002 (USA)

Also Known As:

Killing Emmett Young

Filming Locations:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$4,500,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Emmett's Mark Productions LLC

Technical Specs

Runtime:

104 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The CD album that 'Tim Roth''s character picks up at the record store is "Summer Of Love" by Love Seed Mama Jump- one of the band's members is the movie director's cousins.

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Goofs

About 22 minutes in, Emmett is reading a report when he gets a nosebleed. He is reading 'tears on vaginal tissue caused by forced object' a drop of blood clearly falls on the 'obj' of object. In the next shot it has magically moved to just above the 'd' and 'ob' of 'forced object'.

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Connections

References The Deep End (2001)

User Reviews

Recommend it strongly

I liked the movie. Consider it very psychological. And I don't think that the serial killer does matter. It is just the way of Emmett to express his desire to live and give a trace in the world. He is struggling so hard to solve a murder, knowing that it will be the last thing that he will do. The twist in assassin's head to kill or not to kill is that he himself does not think that he is capable of doing it. He wanted to be a good cop all his life, but he was just an ordinary guy who could not do anything of his life. And when Steven Bracket insults him and tells him those things, he knows that it is true. At the same time he is jealous at young detective, because he is everything that assassin had ever wanted to be. The end is really surprising. We are going back, like in the circle. The normal life continues, and somehow we know what will happen no matter that it is not shown.