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Director:
Luis Mandoki
Writers (WGA):
Greg Iles (novel)
Greg Iles (screenplay)
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Release Date:
20 September 2002 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Thriller more
Tagline:
Fear Strikes Back. more
Plot:
When their daughter is kidnapped by experienced nappers (Bacon and Love), the Jennings' (Theron and Townsend) turn the tables on this seemingly foolproof plan. full summary | add synopsis
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In the hands of Charlize Theron more (132 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Charlize Theron ... Karen

Courtney Love ... Cheryl

Stuart Townsend ... Will

Kevin Bacon ... Hickey
Pruitt Taylor Vince ... Marvin

Dakota Fanning ... Abby Jennings
Steve Rankin ... Hank Ferris
Gary Chalk ... Agent Chalmers (as Garry Chalk)

Jodie Markell ... Mary McDill
Matt Koby ... Peter McDill

Gerry Becker ... Dr. Stein

Andrew Airlie ... Holden
Randi Lynne ... Hotel Operator

Colleen Camp ... Joan Evans
J.B. Bivens ... Gray Davidson
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
24 Hours (USA) (working title)
24 Stunden Angst (Germany)
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MPAA:
Rated R for violence, language and sexual content.
Runtime:
106 min
Country:
USA | Germany
Language:
English
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Color | Black and White (tinted)
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1.85 : 1 more
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DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

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During the climactic highway crash, Charlize releases a woman from the trunk of the over-turned car and then runs up the embankment toward the road, but when she gets there you can see her left leg accidentally slip out from under her due to the wet pavement. According to the director's DVD commentary, though in great pain Charlize forced herself to crawl the rest of the way to finish the scene, but once "Cut" was yelled it was realized how seriously her left knee had been injured and filming was delayed briefly while she was hospitalized. more
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Revealing mistakes: Towards the end of the movie when Joe and Karen steal the car from the garage, as they drive out of the garage you can see a group of people through the rear window of the car. They appear to just be by-standers standing around watching the movie being filmed. more
Quotes:
Will: Abby, are you all right?
Abby: Yeah, I was just looking at crabs!
Will: [Smiling]
Abby: Daddy, don't worry about me so much!
Karen: [Imitating Abby] Yeah daddy, don't worry so much. We'll be fine!
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In the hands of Charlize Theron, 24 October 2005
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Author: jpschapira from Argentina

Nowadays everyone talks about Charlize Theron. Her new movie "North Country" claims she'll be nominated for the Oscar next year, and who knows, maybe win it again. The thing is I've known her as an actress for a long time, and have watched most of her films; but after what "Monster" was, and after who she is now, I feel like going back and analyzing, if she's just having luck, or if she's always been a good actress.

With no intention of adulating her, I can declare she's always played interesting roles. Take "Mighty Joe Young", Disney's film, for example. She played the "heroine", an easy role, and I was a kid but she didn't look like the everyday heroine, she had managed to achieve a different approach. Next came joining Johnny Depp in the difficult acting journey that was "The Astronaut's wife", a movie that sucked in content but delivered in performances.

Besides being dimmed by stronger people that same year in "The Cider House Rules", 2000 was her strong year, where she left me breathless with her portrayals in "Men of honor" and "The legend of Bagger Bance"; and showed me her dark and betraying side in "The Yards" and "Reindeer Games" (with the great Gary Sinise). So in my quest of "rediscovery", I found "Trapped", one of her last movies before her Oscar-film.

The movie is very good, and so is her performance. The traumatized look she obtains in some occasions is horrifying. How her whole body moves, quietly and alert, because her character knows the danger she's in, but tries hard to be strong and intelligently fight what awaits her. Never has a woman looked so beautiful in underwear but at the same time so disgusting; because there's no pleasure in her position.

There's no pleasure at all in this movie. Karen's (Theron) daughter is kidnapped (data: she's played by Dakota Fanning two years before she was kidnapped again in "Man on Fire"; if she keeps getting kidnapped in movies she might disappear some day), and no secrets are held. We meet the man who planned the kidnapping, Joe (Kevin Bacon), his partners Marvin (Pruitt Taylor Vince in disturbing mode) and Cheryl (second-billed and unfitted Courtney Love) and their plans; including where they keep the kids, and how and when they take them back to their families.

The group has done the same kidnapping strategy four times, succeeding without being caught; Joe always makes boast of it. What the movie announces is that this time will not be perfect, because Karen is not like the other moms, her husband Will (Stuart Townsend looking as always) is not like the other dads, and more importantly, their daughter Abby is not like the other kids. After the group realizes about this miscalculation, writer Greg Iles' character development starts functioning.

I don't know if Iles ever lived it, but the environment seems so real. "How do you pick the families?", Karen asks Joe. "Well; they have to be rich, the children need to have a permitted age and the mother has to be beautiful". Eventually, Karen tries to find out why they do it, and as I said, there's no pleasure, because they don't have fun doing it.

During these scenes, a tense relationship between Karen and Joe emerges, and in terms of performance, they are nothing but moments to make clear the risky actor Kevin Bacon is, and the dedication he gives to his characters. The way he talks to her, the way he resolves the problems with a look; later (you need to pay close attention), the way he moves his hand when he drives, because he hasn't slept and can't control his pulse… The story hidden behind the "why" is very strong, but when the movie decides we should learn it, there's no intention of an emotional impact, which is another remarkable screenplay detail. It is discovered so unexpectedly that there's no time to mediate about it; it wouldn't feel real. Mexican director Luis Mandoki accompanies the environment with a first scene shot in blurry blue, and then creating lots of empty shots of places that are instantly occupied by the characters…Very original.

What is probably not original or mistaken is the resolution. I'm not saying it couldn't end like that; I'm just saying that because of the movie's progress, I was expecting something else. Anyway, the typical wins: but that doesn't diminish the quality of a film.

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