Return to Sender (2004)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Bille August

Writers:

Neal Purvis (written by)
Robert Wade (written by)

Release Date:

28 April 2005 (Russia)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Tagline:

How can you save someone, who won't save herself?

Plot:

While fighting for a woman who sits on death row, a lawyer happens upon new information which brings into question the motives of a man associated with her client.

Plot Keywords:

Death Row | Attorney | Capital Punishment | Free From Execution | Video Surveillance

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Connie Nielsen	...	Charlotte Cory
Aidan Quinn	...	Frank Nitzche
Kelly Preston	...	Susan Kennan
Tim Daly	...	Martin North
Mark Ryan	...	Mark Schlesser
Mark Holton	...	Joe Charbonic
Sara-Marie Maltha	...	Stella / Julie
Bill Thomas	...	Gubby
Randy Colton	...	Joe Hammond
Robin Brooks Sullivan	...	Mary Hammond (as Robin Brooks-Sullivan)
Madison Mueller	...	Kirstie
Eric Starkey	...	Hammond's Brother
Montana Sullivan	...	Hammond's Son
Brian Shoop	...	District Attorney
Michael Phillip Simpson	...	Johnny Decker (as Michael P. Simpson)

Also Known As:

Convicted (USA) (video title)

MPAA:

Rated R for language, some sexuality and violent images.

Runtime:

109 min | Germany:100 min (TV version)

Country:

Denmark | USA | UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

USA:R | UK:15 | Argentina:13 | Portugal:M/16 | Germany:12

Filming Locations:

Copenhagen, Denmark

Company:

Audley Films LLP

Goofs:

Continuity: The right brake light in Frank's Mustang alternates between working and not working throughout the film.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in About 'Return to Sender' (2006) (V)

Soundtrack:

Blue-Eyed Baby

Fantastic Movie

I'm just writing to alert and remind everybody what really can be done with a "low budget" and independent movie like I think this one is.

I love this movie, it's story, the characters, the performances of the actors. It's all great.

It has a fantastic ending and I recommend everyone to see this movie.

I really think that this type of picture should have more support for being done. It's the "simple" stories like this one that demonstrate the true beauty of the cinema and not the blockbusters that the main industry continues to support.

I'm not saying that those shouldn't be done, because their fun.

I just think that sometimes and more often, they should support the so called low budget movies so that great, fantastic, human, and simple stories like what this movie represents could come out and be seen by all the people.

The fact is that with the low advertisement that is made to this type of movies, at least in my country (I presume that in the States it shouldn't be much more), only the true cinema "buffs" get the chance to find out about them and see them, and not the common person, as it should be from the start.

If you really love cinema, don't forget to see this movie, because it's one of those few movies that ends and makes you keep remind about them, the plot, the simultaneous complexity and simplicity of the characters, and everything else for a long time.