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Frances, a wealthy woman, is kidnapped by a man in broad daylight. A film is delivered with a ransom demand showing Frances being buried in a coffin underground. With only twenty four hours of oxygen to breathe, the police are forced into a deadline search for the buried woman... Read more

Starring Maura Tierney, Adrien Brody, Terry Kinney
Director Richard Shepard
Genres Action/Adventure, Thriller

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Oxygen

Frances, a wealthy woman, is kidnapped by a man in broad daylight. A film is delivered with a ransom demand showing Frances being buried in a coffin underground. With only twenty four hours of oxygen to breathe, the police are forced into a deadline search for the buried woman...

Starring Maura Tierney, Adrien Brody, Terry Kinney
Director Richard Shepard
Studio MOSAIC MOVIES
Run time DVD: 1 hr 30 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 18.gif
Genres Action/Adventure, Thriller
Language English
Released DVD: 09 Oct 2006
Production year: 1999
Format DVD

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  • 3 stars out of 5

    This thriller doesn't score many points for originality, but it's well staged and has a decent twist. Adrien Brody stars as a psychopath who is obsessed with the feats of Harry Houdini. When he is caught, he plays a high-stakes game of cat and mouse with the police over the whereabouts of a woman he has buried alive in the middle of Manhattan. Maura Tierney gives a believable performance as the psychologically tortured cop on the case and Brody is everything you'd expect as the demented killer.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

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  • 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    Slow!!

    The superb Adrien Brody plays a manipulative sociopath who kidnaps a socialite in order to blackmail her husband but is let down by a poor script. Maura Tierney is the cop with a dark secret put on the case in which she has twenty four hours to find the buried socialite before she runs out of oxygen. The two leads are meant to be compelled to each other’s darker sides but the on screen chemistry is poor and the dialogue trite. In addition the pace is quite slow and by the end you don’t really care what happens to any of the characters.

      • Bismarck from Berkshire
      • Posted 16 Oct 2005 14:07

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  • Rated - 4 stars

    under rated

    this film is very under rated it was top notch a woman gets kidnapped by a harry houduni who takes pleasure in taunting the police a to where he has buried this poor woman a top notch mind games highly rated and a very good watch

      • A customer from London
      • Posted 04 May 2009 20:00

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      Frances, a wealthy woman, is kidnapped by a man in broad daylight. A film is delivered with a ransom demand showing Frances being buried in a coffin underground. With only twenty four hours of oxygen to breathe, the police are forced into a deadline search for the buried woman......