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, Tim Roth, Gabriel Byrne

8 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:

suicide by hitman | romantic | hot | rake | flirtatious | 

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Taglines:

Detective Young has 3 days to solve a brutal murder... His own.

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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:

9 May 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 I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)

User Reviews

A sleeper

Young cop Emmet Young gets the news has only weeks to live. An ex-cop offers him a solution: A hit-man will kill Emmet thus sparing him a long and painful deathbed. Emmet takes the deal, but than finds out the hospital screwed up. He isn't dying. Now he has to stop the hit-man. In a substory he is also pursuing a serial killer who rapes en kills young women. On all fronts time is running out.

I liked this movie very much. The actors are good, especially Wolf and Roth. The script is original and avoids the pitfalls of cliché and stays logical. This is the first time I really liked Scott Wolf in a role. He plays Emmet as a young and intelligent but obsessive cop. I liked the fact that the director really took his time to let us in the life of the hit-man (Roth). It made the final showdown so much more powerful.

Though the film probably had a fraction of the budget most blockbusters have, this doesn't show in the film. The sounds and visuals are very well done. I highly recommend it