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TRAIN WRECK Derailed's Aniston and Owen
Derailed: Chuck Hodes

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Release Date: Nov 11, 2005; Rated: R; DVD Release Date: Mar 21, 2006; Genres: Drama, Thriller; With: Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen; Distributor: The Weinstein Company

Not since Henri tried to steal Woody's girlfriend on Cheers has an actor portrayed a vile Frenchman as gleefully as Vincent Cassel in Derailed. In Ocean's Twelve, he smugly played the preening French cat burglar, and in this pedestrian morality tale, he's stalking Owen's philandering husband with Snidely Whiplash-like menace. An odd combination of Sean Penn and Rupert Everett, he swipes every scene from Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston, and the film drags during the stretches that lack his twinkling maliciousness. Claude Rains would be proud. EXTRAS Five minutes of extended footage provide more violence and heavy breathing, but they're hardly ''unrated''-worthy (Owen slugs a drunk in a bar, Aniston drops an F-bomb). Three deleted scenes focus primarily on Owen's character's strained marriage and relationship with his sick daughter, while in a hurried eight-minute making-of (eight whole minutes?), Aniston says director Mikael Håafström didn't go down ''the formula road of how a normal thriller would be shot.'' Actually, that's just what he did.


Posted Mar 17, 2006
 

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