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Не говори ни слова
Original title: Don’t Say a Word
- 2001
- 16+
- 1h 53m
When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he’s horrified to discover that the abductors’ demand is that he break through to a post traumatic stress disorder suffering young woman who… Read allWhen the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he’s horrified to discover that the abductors’ demand is that he break through to a post traumatic stress disorder suffering young woman who knows a secret…When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he’s horrified to discover that the abductors’ demand is that he break through to a post traumatic stress disorder suffering young woman who knows a secret…
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Overall, I really liked this movie, which surprised me a little bit. The trailers I had seen for it had me thinking it was going to be kind of «cheesy» for lack of a better word, but this was actually very engrossing. It had an interesting story line, sustained suspense and for the most part was well acted.
I particularly liked Brittany Murphy as Elisabeth Burrows, the psychiatric inmate whose tortured mind holds the information that Dr. Conrad (Michael Douglas) needs to get in order to save his young daughter Jessie’s (Skye McCole Bartusiak) life. Murphy seemed so «into» her character that it was almost spooky to watch her. She was extremely convincing. Douglas I thought also offered up a good performance, as did Sean Bean as Patrick, the head kidnapper. Young Miss Bartusiak was commendable but to me didn’t seem to portray the range of emotions I would expect a young child to be feeling in Jesse’s circumstances. She just seemed altogether too calm. The same could be said for Famke Janssen as Jessie’s mother Aggie Conrad. I realize the character had a broken leg and apparently couldn’t get out of bed, but again she just seemed to take the whole thing too calmly (and, when her own life was threatened she seemed able to move around well enough, broken leg or not!) As for Oliver Platt as Conrad’s colleague Dr. Sachs? I find that, depending on the movie, I either like Platt or don’t (no middle ground) and I didn’t care for him in this movie.
Overall, though, the movie was quite good as a vehicle for Douglas. I’d rate it as a 7/10.
- sddavis63
- Jan 29, 2003
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| Don’t Say a Word | |
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Theatrical release poster |
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| Directed by | Gary Fleder |
| Screenplay by | Anthony Peckham Patrick Smith Kelly |
| Based on | Don’t Say a Word by Andrew Klavan |
| Produced by | Arnon Milchan Arnold Kopelson Anne Kopelson |
| Starring | Michael Douglas Sean Bean Brittany Murphy Guy Torry Jennifer Esposito Famke Janssen Oliver Platt |
| Cinematography | Amir Mokri |
| Edited by | Armen Minasian William Steinkamp |
| Music by | Mark Isham |
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Production |
Regency Enterprises |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Release date |
28 September 2001 |
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Running time |
113 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | English Italian |
| Budget | $50 million |
| Box office | $100 million |
Don’t Say a Word is a 2001 American psychological thriller film starring Michael Douglas, Brittany Murphy and Sean Bean based on the novel Don’t Say a Word by Andrew Klavan. It was directed by Gary Fleder and written by Anthony Peckham and Patrick Smith Kelly. It was released on September 28, 2001, receiving negative reviews from critics and grossing $100 million against its $50 million budget.
Plot[edit]
In 1991, a gang of thieves steal a rare $10-million gem, but, in the process, two of the gang double-cross their leader, Patrick Koster, and take off with the precious stone.
Ten years later, on the day before Thanksgiving, prominent Manhattan private practice child psychiatrist, Dr. Nathan R. Conrad, is invited by his friend and former colleague, Dr. Louis Sachs, to examine a «disturbed» young lady named Elisabeth Burrows at the state sanatorium.
Having been released from prison two weeks earlier, Patrick and the remaining gang members break into an apartment which overlooks Nathan’s apartment, where he lives with his wife Aggie and daughter Jessie. Nathan is informed by Patrick that Elisabeth is only pretending to be insane to hide out in the institution from this gang that is searching for the gem. That evening, Patrick kidnaps Jessie as a means of forcing Nathan to acquire a six-digit number from Elisabeth’s memory. As Nathan visits Elisabeth, she is reluctant at first, but he gains her trust later – especially when he reveals the situation with Jessie. Sachs admits to Nathan that the gang who kidnapped Jessie also kidnapped his girlfriend to force him to acquire the number from Elisabeth. Sachs is then visited by Detective Sandra Cassidy, who reveals to him that his girlfriend has been found dead. Meanwhile, Aggie hears Jessie’s voice and realizes the kidnappers reside in the nearby apartment. The kidnappers send one of them to kill Aggie while the others escape with Jessie, but Aggie sets an ambush and kills him.
After Nathan takes Elisabeth out of the sanatorium, she remembers certain events regarding the gang. It is revealed that Elisabeth’s father was the gang member who double crossed the others and kept the gem. However, other members of the gang later found him and ordered him to reveal where he had hidden the gem, subsequently pushing him in front of a subway train. The gang members were arrested immediately, and Elisabeth escaped with her doll in which the gem was hidden. She also remembers that the required number, 815508, is the number of her father’s grave at Hart Island and that her doll is placed beside him in the coffin. She explains that she had stowed away on a boat that was taking her father’s coffin for burial in Potter’s field on Hart Island, where the gravediggers put the doll, named Mischka, inside.
Nathan and Elisabeth steal a boat to reach Hart Island. The gang members track them down and demand that Nathan give them the number they want. Elisabeth reveals the number and Patrick orders his companion to exhume her father’s coffin after releasing Jessie. He finds the doll and the gem hidden inside it. He then decides to kill Nathan and Elisabeth, but Cassidy arrives before he can shoot them. Patrick’s companion is shot by Cassidy, but Patrick manages to wound her. Taking advantage of the confusion, Nathan takes the gem from Patrick and throws it into an open mass grave. Nathan kicks Patrick into the grave, and then triggers a collapse of its sides, filling the grave with dirt and burying Patrick alive. Nathan reunites with Aggie and Jessie, thanks Cassidy, and invites Elisabeth to live with them.
Cast[edit]
- Michael Douglas as Nathan Conrad
- Sean Bean as Patrick Koster
- Brittany Murphy as Elisabeth Burrows
- Skye McCole Bartusiak as Jessie Conrad
- Guy Torry as Dolen
- Jennifer Esposito as Sandra Cassidy
- Shawn Doyle as Russel Maddox
- Victor Argo as Sydney Simon
- Conrad Goode as Max
- Paul Schulze as Jake
- Lance Reddick as Arnie
- Famke Janssen as Aggie Conrad
- Oliver Platt as Louis Sachs
Production[edit]
An earlier version of the script did not feature the investigation side-plot set around Detective Sandra Cassidy. Although the film is entirely set in New York, shooting took place in winter 2000 in both New York and Toronto. Due to the film’s release nearly three weeks after the September 11 attacks, the filmmakers contemplated delaying the movie, but ultimately decided against it. However, they cut out and replaced shots of the World Trade Center from the edit, such as the opening shot, which now instead shows Brooklyn.[1]
Soundtrack[edit]
The film’s musical score was composed by Mark Isham. The soundtrack was released on CD from Varèse Sarabande that contains eight score selections from various scenes, including Heist, Kidnapped and the horrific events at Subway.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | «Heist» | 6:02 |
| 2. | «Elisabeth» | 4:40 |
| 3. | «Kidnapped» | 4:28 |
| 4. | «A Body» | 1:37 |
| 5. | «Hart Island» | 3:38 |
| 6. | «Subway» | 4:06 |
| 7. | «Mishka» | 3:13 |
| 8. | «A Family» | 3:24 |
| Total length: | 30:49 |
Reception[edit]
Critical response[edit]
Don’t Say a Word received poor reviews from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 24% of 114 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.4/10. The website’s consensus reads: «Don’t Say a Word is slick and competently made, but the movie is routine and stretches believability with many eye rolling moments.»[2] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 38 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating «generally unfavorable reviews».[3]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two and a half stars out of four, deeming that «the movie as a whole looks and occasionally plays better than it is» and praising Gary Fleder’s «poetic visual touch» as well as Brittany Murphy’s and Sky McCole Bartusiak’s performances.[4] Conversely, in his review for Empire, Kim Newman found the film bland and thought it «rarely manages to make you forget its blatant silliness». He did however praise the female cast, in particular Famke Janssen.[5]
Box office[edit]
The film earned over $100 million worldwide against a budget of $50 million.[6]
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Don’t Say A Word is slick and competently made, but the movie is routine and stretches believability with many eye rolling moments.
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Ruthless crook Patrick Koster (Sean Bean) and his partner capture young Jessie Conrad (Skye McCole Bartusiak) and hold her for an unusual ransom. Koster wants Jessie’s therapist father, Nathan (Michael Douglas), to somehow coax traumatized teen Elisabeth (Brittany Murphy) into divulging a mysterious code number that will lead the criminals to a hidden jewel worth a fortune. Unfortunately, it may be impossible to convince the delusional Elisabeth to cooperate: she hasn’t spoken in 10 years.
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Rating:
R (Some Gruesome Images|Language|Violence)
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Genre:
Mystery & thriller
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Original Language:
English -
Director:
Gary Fleder
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Producer:
Arnon Milchan,
Arnold Kopelson,
Anne Kopelson
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Writer:
Anthony Peckham,
Patrick Smith Kelly,
Andrew Klavan
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Release Date (Theaters):
Sep 28, 2001
wide
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Release Date (Streaming):
Feb 19, 2002
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Box Office (Gross USA):
$55.0M -
Runtime:
1h 53m
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Distributor:
20th Century Fox
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Production Co:
New Regency Pictures,
Kopelson Entertainment
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Sound Mix:
Dolby SR, DTS, Dolby Stereo, Surround, SDDS, Dolby A, Dolby Digital
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Aspect Ratio:
Scope (2.35:1)
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Nov 17, 2019
Well acted, but not a great thriller. The film has enough talent to warrant its existence. The issue here is the safe guarding plotline that limits the film to anything but original. Douglas is solid and commanding as always, and is lucky enough to have the support of Bean as the villain. The simple issue of the film is the simplistic nature. This never attempts anything more than the average Hollywood thriller. This understandably has fallen into obscurity and forgotten by everyone. There was potential here. 15/11/2019
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Nov 24, 2012
The suspense thriller Don’t Say a Word is an impressive and intense film that’s smart and well-crafted. The story follows a preeminent psychiatrist that must get a 6 digit number from a mental patient in order to save his daughter, who’s been kidnapped and held hostage. The casting is phenomenal, and includes Michael Douglas, Brittany Murphy, Sean Bean, and Jennifer Esposito. Douglas is in top form and Murphy gives an inspired performance that nearly steals the film. Additionally, the directing is quite good and does an excellent job at building suspense and intrigue as the story unfolds. There are a few weaknesses in the storytelling, but overall Don’t Say a Word delivers a captivating and powerful psychological thriller.
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May 14, 2010
This is your typical hollywood thriller—formulaic, predicatable, and nothing out of the usual. That being said, Douglas puts forth another fine performance, and his supporting cast is rock solid, especially the bad guy played by Sean Bean. Even though you know how it will all turn out, the suspense, tension and thrill quotient is played out rather well and will hold your interest. It is what it is and makes no pretensions otherwise, it entertains and thats ok with me.
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Dec 27, 2009
Renowned psychiatrist Nathan Conrad visits an 18 year old woman who is mentally disturbed with his colleague Dr Sachs. The next morning he awakes to find his daughter kidnapped and him and his wife under surveillance by a shadowy group of men. He is given until 5pm that day to get the patient to reveal a 6 digit number to him that is locked up in her head. Meanwhile his wife is trapped in their flat and police woman Cassidy is piecing together a puzzle that begins with the discovery of two related murders.
It doesn’t matter how daft a story is if it manages to convince you for as long as it’s on screen. For example Face/Off has the most absurd plot in the world, but for 2 hours it doesn’t matter and it carries you along. This doesn’t quite manage the same trick. The plot is daft — every single part of it is silly from the idea of a girl being unreachable is daft, the idea of the gang doing this is daft and the way that with very little notice the gang manage to set up cameras everywhere.
That said it has it’s moments — the opening robbery is good and some of the drama works well. However for too much of the film you feel like the director is really trying to make it feel more tense than it is — witness the scene where Conrad first finds talks to Patrick Koster on the phone, the camera spins wildly all round him. Similarly he uses a lot of handheld stuff to give the impression of more action than is really happening, he also uses other lazy tricks like having everyone shouting their lines at times and making everyone squeal their tyres etc when they drive! These combined with the silly plot make it hard to get into.
Douglas is OK but he doesn’t convince as the strong father figure that saves the day — he looks too old to take on Bean in a fight. He also looks far to old to have a beauty like Famke Janssen. She does well despite being stuck indoors all the time — the only problem with her is that she is far to warm and perfect a character. Murphy is good although she has moments where she’s too hammy. Bean and his gang are good but they are distant from the action and never feel like a real threat — in fact you could almost sympathise with Bean, having been double-crossed at the start and wasting 10 years of his life. Esposito is OK but she doesn’t really have a character — she tries to be tough and slightly sassy (a role she did so well everyday in Spin City) but she comes across as nondescript as her black leather coat. Victor Argo is a pleasure to see, but he’s wasted here with nothing to do in a really small role. Fans of Abel Ferrera will know him while he’s been in other things (notably the two Smoke films) and know how good a character actor he can be.
Overall this never manages to rise above it’s silly plot. It has it’s moments but with lesser stars this would have been just another silly straight-to-video thriller.
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Don’t Say a Word
сборы
$45 018 450 (мир)
$55 001 642 (США)
премьера
24.09.2001 (мир)
29.11.2001 (РФ)
производство
Regency
Village Roadshow
О фильме
Знаменитый психиатр Натан Конрад не может жаловаться на жизнь – его частный кабинет расположен в престижном районе Нью-Йорка, у него жена красавица и прелестная дочь. Как-то раз накануне Дня Благодарения он направляется домой, предвкушая провести спокойный выходной в кругу семьи. Ему остается только по просьбе коллеги проконсультировать некую молодую женщину – и он свободен. Но оказывается, что перед ним – далеко не рядовой случай. Элизабет Барроуз страдает припадками агрессивности, причину которых никто до сих пор не смог объяснить и, тем более, устранить. Теперь Натан Конрад – последняя надежда девушки.
В Натане просыпается профессиональный интерес, но его любопытство разгорается еще больше, когда он слышит первые слова Элизабет, обращенные к нему: «Вы хотите того же, что они?… Я никогда не скажу… никому из вас».
Проходит совсем немного времени, и Натан начинает понимать, что Элизабет и особенности ее болезни каким-то образом связаны с опасностью, грозящей ему и его семье. Дочь психиатра похищена безжалостными преступниками, и чтобы спасти ее, ему необходимо расшифровать шестизначное число, закодированное в поврежденном мозгу Элизабет…
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| Не говори ни слова | |
| Don’t Say a Word | |
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| Жанр |
криминальный фильм |
|---|---|
| Режиссёр |
Гари Фледер |
| Автор сценария |
Эндрю Клаван (роман) |
| В главных ролях |
Майкл Дуглас |
| Оператор |
Амир Мокри |
| Композитор |
Марк Айшем |
| Кинокомпания |
20th Century Fox |
| Длительность |
113 мин |
| Бюджет |
50 млн $ |
| Страна |
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| Язык |
английский |
| Год |
2001 |
| IMDb |
ID 0260866 |
«Не говори ни слова» (англ. Don’t Say a Word) — фильм режиссёра Гари Фледера 2001 года.
Сюжет
После кражи из банка бандой воров бриллианта стоимостью 10 миллионов долларов один из них сбегает с добычей, но бывшие сообщники отыскивают и убивают его. Но сам бриллиант при этом найден не был.
Через десять лет дочь доктора Натана Конрада, известного психиатра, похищают неизвестные, требующие от врача выполнить для них одну услугу. Последняя заключается в том, что врач должен разузнать у одной из своих пациенток некий шестизначный код. Именно эти цифры, по мнению преступников, помогут им наконец узнать, где находится искомый бриллиант.
В ролях
| Актёр | Роль |
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| Майкл Дуглас | доктор Натан Р. Конрад |
| Шон Бин | Патрик Костер |
| Бриттани Мерфи | Элизабетт Борроуз |
| Скаил МакКол Бартусиак | Джесси Конрад |
| Гай Торри | Долин |
| Дженнифер Эспозито | детектив Сандра Кэссэди |
| Шейн Доил | Рассел Мэдокс |
| Виктор Арго | Сидни Симпсон |
| Конрад Гуд | Макс Донли |
| Пауль Шульц | Джейк |
| Лейнс Риддик | Арни |
| Фамке Янссен | Эгги Конрад |
| Оливер Платт | доктор Льюис Сакс |
| Эйдан Девайн | Леон Эдвард Крофт |
| Алекс Кемпбелл | Джонатан |
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