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A psychiatrist (Michael Douglas) is called in on the
unusual case of a young woman who has been in and out of institutions for ten years but
has never been successfully diagnosed. The case becomes more urgent when his 8-year-old
daughter is kidnapped and the ransom is a piece of information his new patient has in her
head. Also with Famke Janssen, Sean Bean, Jennifer Esposito and Oliver Platt. [1:52]
SEX/NUDITY 5 - A man begins to give his wife a sponge bath (he touches her
thigh) and they kiss romantically. A young woman touches her breast under her shirt and
invites a man to touch her. A woman begins to change her top and a man watches through a
camera, eagerly anticipating. A psychiatrist talks to a young man about masturbating,
explaining that it's normal and everybody does it (apparently the young man has stolen
girls' panties and uses them while masturbating). A young woman stretches and her shirt
lifts up to expose her bare midriff. A woman's dead body is shown in a morgue and we see
her from the side: her bare breast and nipple are shown, above and from a distance; it's
difficult to discern much because she's quite bruised. A woman lies in her bed with shorts
and a cast on one leg, exposing her thigh and leg throughout the movie. A man makes a
suggestive remark to a woman.
VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - A woman's dead body is fished out of a river and she has
blue tinged lips and skin, and bruises around her wrists. A woman pulls back a blanket to
show a dead woman lying with her eyes open. We see autopsy photos of a man with cigarette
burns all over his chest. We are shown photographs of a man with many bloody wounds and a
man explains that a young woman slashed him repeatedly with a razor in a fit of rage. A
man attacks a woman from behind, she falls back taking him with her, crashing onto a table
and onto the floor; the man wraps a telephone cord around her neck, while she punches him
in the face and stabs him in the chest with a knitting needle. A man is kicked into an
open grave, and a pile of wood drops in the hole causing the walls to give way and he is
buried alive. Two men are shot (one in the back several times) and a woman is shot. Two
men fight with a shovel knocking each other to the ground, kicking and punching each other
and one rubs dirt in the other's eyes. A man beats a man with a stick and threatens him
with a gun. We see a man's bloody body when the police are photographing him. A dead body
floats in a river face down. A woman clocks a man with her crutch which sends him to the
ground, and she pounds on his face causing his mouth and nose to bleed and he passes out.
A man with a knife comes into a woman's apartment. A group of men charge into a bank,
breaking open the door, knocking down a security guard, yelling at and hitting people with
their guns. There are several flashbacks, each one showing increasing detail, of a man and
his young daughter being chased by a group of men; when they are caught the men draw a
knife, shove the man on subway tracks, kick him in the face repeatedly and he is struck by
an oncoming train while his daughter watches. A group of men break into an old woman's
home and she drops a tray of food on the floor. A woman in a morgue identifies a body and
screams when the face is uncovered. A young girl (in flashback) watches her father's
coffin being lowered into the ground. A man jabs a man in the arm with a hypodermic needle
in order to put him to sleep. Two men struggle over a gun and shots are fired. A man picks
up a young girl and she kicks and screams. A man and woman panic when they realize that
their daughter has been kidnapped. A young woman grabs a man around the throat, a man
shoves a man into a wall and threatens him with a hypodermic needle, a man slaps a man
across the head, a man punches a man in the head sending him to the ground (we see a
trickle of blood on his forehead). Two graves are dug up and inside one we see the
skeletal remains of a body. A man and a young woman walk through an eerie cemetery as the
wind whistles. There are several explosions: one blows open the vault door of a bank, one
opens a safety deposit box and one blows up a van which bursts into flames on a city
street. A young woman sits on a hospital bed, in what appears to be a catatonic state, and
we see her arms, legs and face covered with bruises and scabs. Police officers hold a
group of men at gunpoint. A man threatens to kill a girl a few times. There are a few
discussions of a young girl having watched her father being murdered, and there's a
discussion of two people having been murdered by torture: being burned with a cigarette
repeatedly and having their necks broken. A woman yells at her husband in fear after her
daughter has been kidnapped. A man drives recklessly through city traffic and nearly hits
pedestrians on a parade route. A group of men prepare for an attack on a bank (they load
their guns and set explosives).
PROFANITY 6 - 16 F-words, 4 scatological terms, 3 sexual references, 10
anatomical terms, 10 mild obscenities, 2 religious profanities, 6 religious exclamations. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Theft, kidnapping, murder, double crossing, greed,
narcissism, death of a parent, Freud, neuroses, masturbation.
MESSAGE - Sometimes you have to let go in order to live a normal life.
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