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Overview

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Writers:
Hans Bauer (writer)
Craig Mitchell (writer)
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Release Date:
4 August 2007 (Japan) more
Tagline:
Your fear is their desire more
Plot:
This film is about a hyper-vigilant employee of the department of public safety who, while training his young female replacement, has to track down a missing girl who he is convinced is connected to a paroled sex offender he is investigating. full summary | add synopsis
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Better than they say. Hell, better than "8 MM" too. more (40 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Richard Gere ... Erroll Babbage

Claire Danes ... Allison Lowry

KaDee Strickland ... Viola Frye
Ray Wise ... Bobby Stiles

Russell Sams ... Edmund Grooms

Avril Lavigne ... Beatrice Bell

Kristina Sisco ... Harriet Wells

Dwayne L. Barnes ... Vincent Dennison (as Dwayne Barnes)

Matt Schulze ... Glenn Custis

Debrianna Mansini ... Harriet's Mother

Ed Ackerman ... Louis Kessler
French Stewart ... Haynes Ownby
Paul Scallan ... Missing Girl's Father

Susan Conklin ... Missing Girl's Mother

Carmen Serano ... Woman in Gorilla Suit
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MPAA:
Rated R for perverse content involving aberrant sexuality and strong violence, and for language.
Runtime:
105 min | Canada:97 min | USA:96 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Continuity: At the end of the movie, Viola is seen in the trailer with rubber gloves on. Errol then ties her up and takes her in his car to a buried body, where Viola gets out of the rope she's tied with. However, the rubber gloves are now missing; they reappear once more when she is slapped by Allison. more
Quotes:
Allison Lowry, Erroll Babbage: Tell me about your double life. What do you think about? I think about a girl who's dead because I didn't look in a closet. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Visionary (2010) more

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87 out of 114 people found the following comment useful.
Better than they say. Hell, better than "8 MM" too., 9 November 2007
6/10
Author: Fmartiterron from Spain

I have just seen this movie. It just opened today (November 9th 2007) in Spain. Let me say that I understand the bad word of mouth the movie is having, it deals with a difficult subject (sexual abusers) and its tone is as dark as say "9 MM", if not darker.

But all things considered it's a pretty good film. The investigation angle makes for a very tense thriller, but where the film really shines is in the depiction of Richard Gere's characters, as well as the villain's, which I won't reveal.

Gere is really all stops go here, it's easily his most intense role since "Internal Affairs". Even if you are not Gere fans, you're gonna love him in this.

On the minus side, I didn't like the way the film is edited. It's full of flashes, freeze frames and all those "arty" stuff they cram into your TV series and direct-to-DVD movies. I understand they wanted to give the movie a hard edge, but it's often too distracting. The film is already dark and gritty enough as it is, and this bells and whistles don't add a damn thing.

And then there's Claire Danes. look, she's an OK actress, but she was like a fish out of water here. They give her character some interesting background, but she's constantly out off key. She looks like a raving lunatic when she tries to act quirky or vulnerable, and not very convincing when the script calls for her character to toughen up a little.

So, it's an interesting movie if you can go beyond the surface of its visual trickery, but not as good as it could be. I would say it earns a 6'5 - 7 in my scale.

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