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Distributor:
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Region 4 | Pal Format
Available to rent or buy
Director:
Mikael Hafstrm
Certificate: MA15+
Extras: Yes
ANYONE
IN IT WE KNOW?
Clive
Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassel, Melissa George
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WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
Decidedly
gripping Derailed stars the
always excellent Clive Owen as
advertising executive Charles
Shine whose life begins to
literally derail after he meets
fellow exec Lucinda Harris
(Jennifer Aniston) on the
morning train to work.
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Both
are married but after Lucinda
shouts Charles his train fare
one morning the pair soon
discover a very mutual
attraction and before you can
say extra marital affair the
pair are planning to spend the
evening together in a shady
motel, before events can go too
far the pair are attacked in
their room by a mugger who beats
seven shades of you know what
out of Shine and brutally rapes
Lucinda, from their things go
rapidly downhill for Shine, the
mugger, called LaRoche (a
brilliant performance by Vincent
Cassel who rose to prominence in
the controversial Irreversible)
is soon demanding $20,000 or he
will spill the beans to Shines
wife, unaccountably Shine
decides to pay up whereupon La
Roche steps up his blackmail
campaign and is now demanding
$100,000...
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To
say anymore would totally spoil
the movie, there is a whole
Hitchcock vibe going on but the
movie most closely resembles
Nicole Kidman's Birthday Girl,
there are enough twists and
turns to keep you guessing right
until the very end, one does get
the impression that Aniston's
role is somewhat wasted, she
looks beautiful but her screen time
isn't that huge and whilst Owen
gets the bulk of the movie it's
really Cassel who grabs the
attention every time he appears,
incredibly vicious but able to
appear smooth as silk.
A
genuine thriller that pulls you
in, Derailed is a worthwhile
Friday Night on the Couch
movie.
ANY
SPECIAL FEATURES?
Deleted
Scenes; The
Making of Derailed and the
theatrical Trailer
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