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User Rating:
6.0/10   725 votes
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Director:
Tom McLoughlin
Writer:
Dave Erickson (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
17 October 2003 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Thriller more
Plot Keywords:
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Awards:
2 wins more
User Comments:
Disturbing more (16 total)

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Charles S. Dutton ... Chief Charles Moose

Jay O. Sanders ... Douglas Duncan
Bobby Hosea ... John Muhammad
Trent Cameron ... John Lee Malvo

Helen Shaver ... Sandy Moose

Tom O'Brien ... Lieutenant Jacobs

Charlayne Woodard ... Mildred Muhammad
Garwin Sanford ... Agent Tremain
Doug Abrahams ... Agent Stone (as Doug Abrams)

Michael Kopsa ... Detective Foster

David Neale ... Detective Paulson

Veena Sood ... Sylvia Mack

Nels Lennarson ... Gordon Wolf
rest of cast listed alphabetically:

Michael Adamthwaite ... George Lenahan
Raul Aguilar ... Bus Driver
Patti Allan ... Montgomery County Concilwoman
Sean Allen ... Father Sullivan

Gillian Barber ... Audrey Duncan
Bianca Blake ... Taiba Muhammad

Artine Brown ... Jacobs
Robert Bruce ... Montgomery County Councilman

George W. Bush ... Himself (archive footage)
Claudia Carvajal ... Post Office Woman
Jose Casio ... Spanish Man
James Coderre ... Landscaper
Candace Cole ... Vacuuming Woman
Nicola Crosbie ... Reporter
Richard Cummins ... Officer Anderson
D. Harlan Cutshall ... Coach

Linda Darlow ... Joan Abernathy
Shai-Anne Davis ... Sulena Muhammad
Brian Drummond ... Fairfax County Cop

Andrew Francis ... Jeffrey Duncan
Gina Marie Frazier ... Wife

Lorena Gale ... YMCA Receptionist
Chic Gibson ... Exxon Man
Lon Gibson ... DC Man
Marrett Green ... Reporter
Manami Hara ... Reporter

Dean Hinchey ... Michael's Store Owner

Mark Holden ... Washington DC Agent

Adrian Holmes ... Weightlifting Buddy
Diane Jolicoer ... Bleeding Woman
Bill Lawrence ... Man In School Library
Anthony Michael Lively ... Jack Duncan
Camille Martinez ... Reporter

Brandon Jay McLaren ... Eye Witness
Rochelle Melnyk ... Home Depot Woman
Alexandria Michell ... Melanie Duncan
Dagmar Midcap ... Reporter

Angela Moore ... School Board Member
Michael O'Shea ... Trucker
David Pearson ... Hasbro (as David Allan Pearson)
Freda Perry ... Hysterical Exxon Woman
James Purcell ... FBI Negotiator
Kalipepa Reddy ... East Indian Cab Driver
Claire Riley ... Beatrice Jaffe

Darryl Scheelar ... SWAT Leader
Lucas Sherry ... John Muhammad, Jr.
Bobby Stewart ... School Security Guard
Evan Stewart ... Reporter
Terry Trigg ... Home Depot Man
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Runtime:
USA:85 min (excluding commercials)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.78 : 1 more
Certification:
Australia:M | Netherlands:12 | Germany:12 | UK:12
Filming Locations:
Maryland, USA more
Company:
Orly Adelson Productions more

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Errors in geography: At the end scene where the two are arrested at a rest area in Hagerstown, Maryland there is an interstate sign for I-70 South. Interstate 70 does not run south rather runs east west from Utah to Baltimore. more
Soundtrack:
The Game Changed more

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User Comments

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6 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
Disturbing, 31 October 2004
8/10
Author: Renaldo Matlin from Oslo, Norway

The shocking case of the so-called "Beltway sniper" is dramatized in such a manner that you never really feel too connected to any of the main characters, but you do get a sense of the urgency for the investigators and the indescribable horror it must have been for the people in the area.

In the case of 'Charles Moose' (Charles S. Dutton) I wish we could have gotten more under the skin of this very complex and fascinating chief of police. In real life, I remember watching him deliver all those press-conferences when it all happened, and how he gave an impression of being a very dedicated law-officer who truly lived up to the line "to protect and serve". Naturally I therefore hoped this film would give a better understanding of what makes this man tick, but it didn't really. This is no fault on Charles S. Dutton, a very fine actor, but more on the writers.

On the other hand, the fact that we never get to know what makes the main characters act as they do, makes the portrayal of the two snipers even scarier. It's like Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds", the movie ends without us knowing what triggered all the bird attacks, and the fact that we don't get the answers we so desperately seek, add to the horror. Especially when the crimes in question are so horrific as they are here. Here we have two human-beings who really act like the world was their personal playground and the taking of human lives nothing worse than the actions in a video game. We will probably never get any real answer from the "lead" sniper John Allen Muhammad, as he was sentenced to death earlier this year, and considering the horror he bestowed upon America, it is not likely he will spend time on death row long enough to help give us an answer to the mystery.

This movie dramatizes these perverse killings and it's grand-scale investigation in a straight-forward-manner that works, mostly thanks to the fact that this case is so dramatic to begin with that the film-makers really couldn't mess it up in the first place. As a matter of fact it is so harrowing that the movie itself leaves the viewer more disturbed than "entertained".

Nice world we live in, huh?

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