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Mood:
- SuspensefulRoughCaptivatingTense
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Plot:
- KidnappingMental IllnessWoman in DangerChases and RacesConfinedCrimesDangerDeadly more...
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Genres:
- ThrillerCrime
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary
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Place:
- New YorkUSAIsland
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- Based on Book
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Don't Say a Word, 2001
English, Italian
USA, Australia
Profile of Don't Say a Word
The mood of Don't Say a Word is suspenseful, tense, and captivating. The plot centers around mental illness, kidnapping, and a woman in danger. It is a thriller and crime movie. In approach, Don't Say a Word is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, on an island. The setting is New York. Don't Say a Word happens in contemporary times. It is based on a book. Note that it includes violent content.
Summary of Don't Say a Word
When psychiatrist Nathan Conrad discovers that his daughter has been kidnapped, the only way he can get her back is to pry critical information from the mind of a seriously disturbed teenager with a secret stuck deep in a blocked memory. The Conrads are the prototypical happy family: Nathan, a successful doctor (Michael Douglas); his loving wife, Aggie (Famke Janssen), who is bedridden with a broken leg suffered in a skiing accident; and eight-year-old Jessie (Skye McCole Bartusiak), an extemely intelligent and well-loved young girl. But late one night Jessie is abducted and used as collateral for a dangerous group of men who will stop at nothing to recover a stolen ten-million-dollar jewel.
Gary Fleder (KISS THE GIRLS) has crafted an excellent thriller shot on the streets of New York City, getting help from a fine supporting cast, including Oliver Platt as one of Dr. Conrad's medical colleagues, Jennifer Esposito as a cop out to get to the bottom of a series of unexplained murders, and Sean Bean as a violent criminal who will kill anyone who gets in his way. But this is Douglas's movie, starring as a loving family man and dedicated doctor who has to compromise his ethics in order to save his daughter's life and free a teenager from a dangerous psychosis.
Details
| Language: | English, Italian |
| Country: | USA, Australia |
| Release date: | 24 September 2001 |
| Runtime: | 113 min |
Cast and Crew
as Dr. Nathan R. Conrad
as Patrick Koster
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Chicago Tribune
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- by: Michael Wilmington
Variety
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- by: Todd McCarthy
