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Release Date: Sep 28, 2001; Rated: R; Length: 110 Minutes; Genre: Thriller; With: Michael Douglas and Brittany Murphy
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
A grimly sensational kidnap thriller that's the epitome of joyless competence. Michael Douglas plays a posh Manhattan psychiatrist who faces off against the hooligan (Sean Bean) who abducted his 8-year-old daughter (Skye McCole Bartusiak). Long before Douglas demonstrates that sane, compassionate family men can get mad as hell too, he has already proved such a paragon of modern-enlightened-male diligence and sensitivity that his ability to foil the kidnappers practically seems an afterthought. Our hero has to extract a secret from a psycho teenager (Brittany Murphy) who took a razor to a hospital orderly, but the puzzle-brained psycho has too few layers.
Posted Apr 23, 1994
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