Solace (2015)

A psychic works with the F.B.I., in order to hunt down a serial killer.

Director:

Afonso Poyart

Writers:

Sean Bailey, Ted Griffin

Stars:

Anthony Hopkins, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Abbie Cornish

1 win.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Anthony Hopkins	...	John Clancy
Jeffrey Dean Morgan	...	Joe Merriwether
Abbie Cornish	...	Katherine Cowles
Colin Farrell	...	Charles Ambrose
Matt Gerald	...	Agent Sloman
Jose Pablo Cantillo	...	Agent Sawyer
Marley Shelton	...	Laura Merriwether
Xander Berkeley	...	Mr. Ellis
Kenny Johnson	...	David Raymond
Joshua Close	...	Linus Harp (as Josh Close)
Sharon Lawrence	...	Mrs. Ellis
Janine Turner	...	Elizabeth Clancy
Luisa Moraes	...	Victoria Raymond
Jordan Woods-Robinson	...	Mr. Oldfield
Niyi Oni	...	Agent Fibbie

Storyline

A psychic doctor, John Clancy (Sir Anthony Hopkins), works with an F.B.I. Special Agent (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) in search of serial killer Charles Ambrose (Colin Farrell). After having lived in isolation for two years, since the death of his daughter, Clancy is asked by his friend Joe, an F.B.I. Special Agent to help him solve several murders committed by a serial killer. The problem is that Ambrose is also psychic, and far ahead of Clancy.

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Plot Keywords:

euthanasia | psychic | serial killer | clairvoyant | predicting the future | 

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Taglines:

How do you stop a killer who can read your mind?

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violence and bloody images throughout, sexuality, nudity and language

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Page Official site [Japan]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

16 December 2016 (USA)

Also Known As:

En la mente del asesino

Filming Locations:

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$22,354,572, 12 March 2016

Company Credits

Production Co:

Eden Rock Media, FilmNation Entertainment, Flynn Picture Company

Technical Specs

Runtime:

101 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The film was scheduled for a late 2015 release, but the film's U.S. distributor, Relativity Media, encountered financial trouble, and put off the release. Even after the company emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the film has yet to be released in the U.S. NOTE: The film was released Friday 12/16/2016. However, the studios who bought the U.S. rights (from Relativity Media), Grindstone Entertainment and Lionsgate Films, only had a "Limited Release" on that day in the U.S. Exactly six days layer, it was released via streaming on the Internet. It has been released on DVD and Blu-ray from Lionsgate.

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Goofs

Charles is hit in the head with a glass and there is a reddish bruise where it left a mark. Shortly afterwards the bruise is completely gone.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Joe Merriwether: [sniffing the cigar] Cuban.
Agent Katherine Cowles: What's the word, Sawyer?
Agent Sawyer: Looks like a match.
Agent Katherine Cowles: [holds up three fingers to Merriwether]
Agent Sawyer: [on the phone] Yeah, it's Joe. We've got a series. Same M O, same signature, no DNA. Not one goddamn shred.

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Connections

Features Sissy Sheriff (1967)

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Soundtracks

My Tears Are Becoming a Sea
Written by Anthony Gonzalez (as Gonzalez Anthony Gerard) and Justin Meldal-Johnsen
Performed by M83
Courtesy of Mute
By Arrangement with Bank Robber Music

User Reviews

Daft but gripping

If this reminds you of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, it's almost certainly meant to. Anthony Hopkins, in creepy (hammy!) near-Hannibal mode, plays a clairvoyant investigator helping the FBI track down a serial killer who - by credibility-stretching coincidence - also happens to be blessed with amazing psychic powers and has a seriously weird motive for his grisly crimes.

SOLACE was originally pitched as a sequel to SE7EN, we're told, and had major production difficulties. There are echoes of almost all the Hannibal Lecter movies. Abbie Cornish's FBI agent never escapes from the shadow of Jodie Foster's Clarice Starling. Colin Farrell is, as ever, a charismatic presence, although he is playing a character the script does not make remotely believable. We see too many of Hopkins's 'visions' of how things may (or may not) be about to turn out. Nowhere near as grim and atmospheric as SE7EN, SOLACE is more than a little daft - but despite muddled direction it's still gripping and at least as watchable as a 'vintage' episode of CSI.