Don't Say a Word Movie Review 2001

Douglas plays the stable family man pushed to the brink once again in this chilly kidnaping thriller. Dr. Nathan Conrad (Douglas) is a psychiatrist whose idyllic life is shattered when his eight-year-old daughter Jessie (Bartusiak) is kidnaped by a gang of thieves. They threaten to kill his little girl unless he can retrieve a six-digit number locked in the brain of Nathan's new patient Elisabeth (Murphy), a raving lunatic who slashed an orderly to death. Meanwhile, the bad guys have rigged surveillance equipment in his apartment and are menacing his wife Aggie (Janssen), as cop Esposito stumbles across the plot, inadvertently threatening Nathan's efforts. All the plot threads are conveniently tied up in a standard final showdown scene.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 112 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Kidnapped!, Shrinks, Sanity Check, Kidnapped!, Physical Problems, Marriage, New York, New York, Books to Film: Andrew Klavan

Screenplay

Patrick Smith Kelly, Anthony Peckham

Cast

Michael Douglas, Sean Bean, Brittany Murphy, Skye McCole Bartusiak, Famke Janssen, Guy Torry, Jennifer Esposito, Shawn Doyle, Victor Argo, Oliver Platt, Conrad Goode, Paul Schulze, Lance Reddick

Cinematography

Amir M. Mokri

Director

Gary Fleder

Music

Mark Isham

Other

Gary Alper, Glen Gauthier, Peter Afterman, William Steinkamp, Armen Minasian, Dennis Davenport, Kim Jennings, Ellen Mirojnick, Nelson Coates

Producer

Arnon Milchan, Anne Kopelson, Arnold Kopelson, Regency Enterprises, Village Roadshow Pictures, NPV Entertainment, 20th Century-Fox