The Eavesdropper (2004)

Director:

Andrew Bakalar

Writer:

Andrew Bakalar (writer)

Release Date:

2004 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

What you hear can kill you.

Plot:

The secretary Liza Raines becomes deaf after a shooting in a robbery, is evicted and later she is found...

Plot Keywords:

Patient | Experiment | Psychotic | CIA | Pill

Cast

Lucy Jenner	...	Liza Raines (Patient 14)
Costas Mandylor	...	Aiden Porter
John J. York	...	Grant Kane
John de Lancie	...	Dr. Gene Kramer
George Takei	...	Dr. Hsieh
Tucker Smallwood	...	General Humes
Ben Donovan	...	Jason
John McCann	...	Secretary of Defense
Billy Rieck	...	Serial Killer (Ronald)
Rafael H. Robledo	...	Agent Perez (as Rafael Robledo)
Deborah Dir	...	Emily, Patient 13
Iona Morris	...	General Humes' Aide
Gilbert Glenn Brown	...	Leon / Night Nurse
Sam Scarber	...	Detective Watkins
Jessie Sanders	...	Damian

Also Known As:

Patient 14 (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, some sexuality and language.

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

USA:R | Argentina:16 | Singapore:NC-16

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Gemstar Pictures

Goofs:

Plot holes: When Liza is shown the house the government is giving her, she hears termites in the walls. However, she's plainly seen wearing the special earrings that suppress her "super" hearing.

The Mind Reader

The secretary Liza Raines (Lucy Jenner) becomes deaf after a shooting in a robbery, is evicted and later she is found by the social assistant Grant Kane (John J. York) living in her car. Grant brings Liza to a Transition Shelter to be rehabilitated, and she accepts to be submitted to an experimental treatment never tested in humans in the Center for Hearing Research. The leader of the research Dr. Gene Kramer (John de Lancie) is pressed by the CIA agent Aiden Porter (Costas Mandylor) that is funding his experiment to test his vaccine of restoration of cells in fifteen patients, and he advises that the rats subjected to the experiment became psychotic. The patients also become psychotic and suicidal, with the exception of Liza, the patient 14. She achieves the ability of hearing frequencies emitted by the brain and read minds as a side effect. Porter recruits Liza to work in CIA disclosing the innermost thoughts of the suspects, but later Liza finds his real hidden intentions.

"The Eavesdropper" is a reasonable movie with an original story that has a great beginning and becomes too much complicated in the end with the betrayals and conspiracies. I thought this movie was a pilot of a show because of the open end. The unknown Lucy Jenner has a great performance, but her character deserved to be better developed in the beginning, showing her past life to the viewers. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Paciente 14" ("Patient 14")