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Don't Say a Word

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Don't Say a Word (2001)

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Reviews Counted: 111

Fresh: 26

Rotten:85

Average Rating: 4.4/10

Consensus: Don't Say A Word is slick and competently made, but the movie is routine and stretches believability with many eye rolling moments.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for violence, including some gruesome images, and language

Runtime: 2 hrs

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release: Sep 28, 2001 Wide

Box Office: $54,218,420

Synopsis: When psychiatrist Nathan Conrad discovers that his daughter has been kidnapped, the only way he can get her back is to pry critical information from the mind of a seriously disturbed teenager with a secret stuck deep in a blocked memory. The... When psychiatrist Nathan Conrad discovers that his daughter has been kidnapped, the only way he can get her back is to pry critical information from the mind of a seriously disturbed teenager with a secret stuck deep in a blocked memory. The Conrads are the prototypical happy family: Nathan, a successful doctor (Michael Douglas); his loving wife, Aggie (Famke Janssen), who is bedridden with a broken leg suffered in a skiing accident; and eight-year-old Jessie (Skye McCole Bartusiak), an extemely intelligent and well-loved young girl. But late one night Jessie is abducted and used as collateral for a dangerous group of men who will stop at nothing to recover a stolen ten-million-dollar jewel. Gary Fleder (KISS THE GIRLS) has crafted an excellent thriller shot on the streets of New York City, getting help from a fine supporting cast, including Oliver Platt as one of Dr. Conrad's medical colleagues, Jennifer Esposito as a cop out to get to the bottom of a series of unexplained murders, and Sean Bean as a violent criminal who will kill anyone who gets in his way. But this is Douglas's movie, starring as a loving family man and dedicated doctor who has to compromise his ethics in order to save his daughter's life and free a teenager from a dangerous psychosis. [More]

Starring: Michael Douglas, Sean Bean, Brittany Murphy, Famke Janssen

Starring: Michael Douglas, Sean Bean, Brittany Murphy, Famke Janssen, Oliver Platt, Jennifer Esposito, Skye McCole Bartusiak

Director: Gary Fleder

Director: Gary Fleder
Screenwriter: Anthony Peckham, Patrick Smith Kelly
Producer: Arnon Milchan, Arnold Kopelson, Anne Kopelson
Composer: Mark Isham, Graeme Revell
Studio: 20th Century Fox

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Feb 19, 2002

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DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
  • Single Side - Dual Layer

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • DTS Stereo - English
  • Dolby Digital Mono - Spanish

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  • Audio Commentary - 1. Gary Fleder - Director
  • 2. Michael Douglas, Sean Bean, Brittany Murphy, Oliver Platt, Famke Jansen - Stars (Specific Scenes)
  • Behind the Scenes - 1. Making Of DON'T SAY A WORD
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As generic as the title suggests, this routine psychological thriller about a yuppie shrink whose daughter is kidnapped can't be saved by Michael Douglas's screen presence.

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This could have been a pretty tight little thriller if it weren't for the gaping, bleeding plot bulletholes.

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03/19/03
Brian Mckay
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03/10/03
Kimberly Jones
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Rarely rises above the status of conventional thriller.

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02/13/03
Harry Guerin
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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
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Generic thriller.

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Jeffrey Chen
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10/30/02
Matthew Turner
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Fleder can only fling the camera about and indulge in some familiar screen sadism ... as he tries to squeeze a few thrills from material as desiccated as his leading man.

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10/21/02
Manohla Dargis
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06/20/02
Rich Cline
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Michael Douglas has to use nearly every acting trick in his arsenal to distract us from a plot that's as flimsy and fragile as a house of cards.

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06/09/02
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