Cativeiro (2007)

A man and a woman awaken to find themselves trapped in a cellar. As their kidnapper drives them mad, the truth about their horrific abduction is revealed.

Director:

Roland Joffé

Writers:

Larry Cohen (screenplay), Joseph Tura (screenplay)

Stars:

Elisha Cuthbert, Daniel Gillies, Pruitt Taylor Vince

1 win & 4 nominations.

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Elisha Cuthbert	...	Jennifer
Daniel Gillies	...	Gary Dexter
Pruitt Taylor Vince	...	Ben Dexter
Michael Harney	...	Det. Bettiger
Laz Alonso	...	Det. Ray Di Santos
Maggie Damon	...	Detective Susan Luden
Carl Paoli	...	Victim #1
Trent Broin	...	Victim #2

Storyline

Top cover girl and fashion model, Jennifer Tree has it all - beauty, fame, money and power. Her face appears on covers of hundreds of magazines. At the top of her game, Jennifer is America's sweetheart. She is loved and adored and sought after. Everyone wants her. But someone out there has been watching and waiting. Someone wants her in the worst way. Out alone at a charity event in Soho, Jennifer is drugged and taken. Held captive in a cell, Jennifer is subjected to a series of terrifying, life-threatening tortures that could only be conceived by a twisted, sadistic mind. It follows the story of one woman who is abducted and tortured, held against her will in a place where days turn into weeks.

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Plot Keywords:

kicked in the crotch | strapped to a chair | sexy woman | strapped to a bedframe | captive | 

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Taglines:

When You Think The Worst Has Happened....Think Worse

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

M/18

Did You Know?

Trivia

The initial advertising campaign for Captivity featured a multi-paneled poster. The first panel was labeled "Abduction," featuring actress Elisha Cuthbert appearing petrified, her mouth covered by a black gloved hand. The second panel was labeled "Confinement" and showed Cuthbert behind a chain-link fence with a bloody thumb poking through. The third was labeled "Torture" and featured Cuthbert on her back, her face hidden within a white cast and red tubes going up her nose. The fourth panel was labeled "Termination" and featured what appeared to be a limp body hanging over a table. The poster was placed on several billboards across Los Angeles, causing a significant uproar and resulting in many complaints. Distributor Lionsgate - who were not involved in the film's advertising campaign and claimed to know nothing of the poster in question before the posters were distributed - and producer After Dark Films ultimately decided to remove the controversial poster from the advertising campaign and took the billboards down.

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Goofs

(at around 40 mins) While on the telephone at the beginning a boom microphone is visible tracking along with Elisha Cuthbert's actions in the mirror behind her.

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Quotes

Ben: Why do good things happen to bad people? That's the mystery.

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Crazy Credits

Michael Harney's name is misspelled in the end credits.

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Alternate Versions

The first cut of the film, which was released in Spain, contains hardly any gore and was more of a straight-up thriller. Most of the gore scenes were re-shot and added for the US and UK releases. Scenes that only appear in the original (Spain) version:

• After Jennifer escapes it shows a shotgun on the floor along with a blasted door
• Also after she escapes there's a scene that shows people wondering how she got out
• There's more investigating and police work with the two male cops and there's a also a female cop who doesn't appear in the other version
• Ben has an extra scene at a restaurant and more overall screen time Scenes that were added to the second (US/UK) version:
• The acid shower scene
• The flashback scenes with Gary and Ben as kids
• The blender scene
• The tooth-pulling scene
• Jennifer being abducted at the nightclub
• All of the dog scenes
• The scene where Jennifer is on her cell phone
• Jennifer and Gary fighting over the gun
• Jennifer shoots Gary an extra time (in his crotch)
• The videotape of the woman in the acid trap
• The scenes that show some of the aftermaths of the other victims

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Connections

Features World Poker Tour (2003)

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Soundtracks

Paper Doll
Written by Johnny Black
Performed by Dave Van Norden
Produced by Martin Blasick
Courtesy of Lavish Music

User Reviews

Trust me, you have better things to do with your time...

Elisha Cuthbert was perfectly fine in the recent House of Wax (which was the same kind of role), but occasionally seems totally adrift here. This is the fault of the director (Roland Joffe - who was once a decent film-maker), but it's hard to single him out for criticism as every single aspect of this film seems to be just as lousy and half-arsed as the next. The look of the film, the story, the characters and the dialogue have no personality or life of their own and instead are clearly uninspired wholesale rip-offs of those found in the likes of the Hostel and Saw films and then reassembled into this dull, turgid, mess. If you want an example of an inept, unloved, souless, studio-funded zeitgeist cash-in flick then here it is. Avoid.

Details

Official Sites:

Lionsgate [United States] TFM [France]

Country:

USA Russia

Language:

English

Release Date:

6 September 2007 (Portugal)

Also Known As:

Cativeiro

Filming Locations:

USA

Box Office

Budget:

$17,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$1,550,000, 15 July 2007

Gross USA:

$2,626,800

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$10,921,200

Company Credits

Production Co:

Captivity Productions, Foresight Unlimited, Russian American Movie Company (RAMCO)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1