Rated R for strong disturbing violence, language and some sexuality.
Company
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Di Bonaventura Pictures
Overwiew :Advertising executive Charles Schine is just another Chicago commuter who regularly catches the 8:43 A.M. train to work. But the one day he misses his train and meets Lucinda Harris, his life is changed forever. Lucinda is charming, beautiful and seductive. Despite the fact that each are married with children, their attraction to one another is magnetic. Lunch dates quickly become cocktails after work, and before long, Charles and Lucinda's infatuation leads them to a hotel room. Their seemingly perfect affair goes terribly awry when LaRoche, a brutal stranger, breaks into their room and holds them at gunpoint. This once illicit liaison turns into a nightmare more dangerous and violent than either could have ever imagined. Charles' life soon becomes filled with deception, blackmail, violence and crime. Unable to confide in his wife or speak to the police, Charles finds himself trapped in a world he doesn't recognize, with no trace of the life he once knew.
Starring :Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Melissa George, Vincent Cassel, Xzibit, Addison Timlin, Giancarlo Esposito, Sandra Bee, William Armstrong, Tom Conti, Rachel Blake, David Morissey, Georgina Chapman, David Oyelowo, Catherine McCord, Dennis O'Hare, Richard Leaf, Claire Lubert, Jennifer Joan Taylor, Sam Douglas, Ortis Deley, Danny McCarthy, Rayn Romain, Chike Okonkwo, James Crisman, Marcus Holton, Leo McCoy, Robert Rangel, Ronald Tanner, Robert 'The RZA' Diggs, Georgina Chapman
Directors :
Mikael Hafstrom
Producers :
Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Writers :
Stuart Beattie
Critic Reviews
Grade
USA Today - Mike Clark : ...clumsy, miscast thriller. more...
C-
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - William Arnold : ...the ending is so absurdly unmotivated that it plays like a slap in the face. more...
C-
San Francisco Chronicle - Ruthe Stein : ...compounded by a ludicrous script whose twists and turns are laughably obvious or just plain laughable... more...
D+
Rolling Stone - Peter Travers : The strapping Owen as a guy who can't handle himself and cutie-pie Aniston as a witchy woman? I don't think so. more...
C
ReelViews - James Berardinelli : Tedious and predictable... more...
C-
New York Times - Manohla Dargis : ...a glossy and often risible bit of trash about an adulterous affair gone bad, bad, bad... more...
Hollywood Reporter - Michael Rechtshaffen : Convoluted plotting and problematic casting derail this Hitchcock knockoff. more...
C-
filmcritic.com - Sean O'Connell : Based on the number of surprise endings that parade through the final minutes of Derailed, it's safe to assume (director) Håfström bypassed Return of the King and rented The Sixth Sense for the seventeenth time. more...
C-
Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum : ...a junky thriller that mistakes brute-strength plot twist, showy violence, and the against-type participation of Jennifer Aniston (as Lucinda, the dame) for earned excitement. more...
C-
E! Online - ...Derailed starts on the wrong track and goes nowhere fast. : http://www.eonline.com/Reviews/Facts/Movies/Reviews/0,1052,89047,00.html more...
Chicago Tribune - Allison Benedikt : ...rings almost logical. more...
B-
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert : ...the story works if you're willing to meet it halfway. more...
B-
Boston Globe - Ty Burr : ...businesslike but not very bright little thriller... more...
C
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Eleanor Ringel Gillespie : Not as sharp as you might want, but still a serviceable shot of shiny escapism. more...
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