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Trapped
2002
Will and Karen Jennings find themselves fighting to save their daughter's life when they are held hostage. The twenty four hour plan sees them trapped in different cities... Read more
| Starring | Charlize Theron, Courtney Love, Stuart Townsend, Kevin Bacon |
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| Director | Luis Mandoki |
| Genres | Thriller |
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Trapped
Will and Karen Jennings find themselves fighting to save their daughter's life when they are held hostage. The twenty four hour plan sees them trapped in different cities...
| Starring | Charlize Theron, Courtney Love, Stuart Townsend, Kevin Bacon |
|---|---|
| Director | Luis Mandoki |
| Studio | COLUMBIA TRI-STAR HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 41 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Norwegian, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 20 Oct 2003 Production year: 2002 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (6)
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When a Man Loves a Woman director Luis Mandoki brings his mawkish touch to the youngster-in-peril movie with this ruthless child-abduction tale. Initially, it bears all the hallmarks of a fantastic nail-biter, starting with a terrifying jolt as the six-year-old daughter of yuppie parents Stuart Townsend and Charlize Theron is snatched by husband-and-wife extortionists, Kevin Bacon and Courtney Love. With the youngster shipped off to a dim-witted accomplice for 24 hours, the kidnappers “babysit” the adults separately to ensure they get their cash. At this point, the tension is practically palpable and is given an extra edge by Bacon's superbly reptilian performance. Unfortunately, what begins as a tightknit suspense thriller soon descends into jaw-dropping stupidity — events become so far-fetched that it's almost impossible not to laugh. Townsend and Love compound the disaster with unintentionally hammy turns that transform what could have been every parent's nightmare into slapstick farce.
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"...Skillfully handled....[The film] generates some genuine tension, features some provocatively nasty moments and toplines some good thesps in very good from..."
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10 out of 14 people found this review helpful
Don't get trapped into watching this
Will Jennings(Stuart Townsend) is a succesful doctor who leaves his wife Karen(Charlize Theron) and daughter Abby(Dakota Fanning) to go to a medical conference. While he's away, a group of kidnappers nab his daughter and whisk her off to a secret location. The lead kidnapper Joe(Kevin Bacon), stays at the house to keep an eye on Karen, while his wife Cheryl(Courtney Love) holds Will hostage in his hotel room. They're demanding $250,000 in 24 hours or little Abby gets it. They've done this four times before, but young Abby is asthmatic and this time the parents decide to fight back.
That's the ludicrous set-up to Luis Mandoki's 'Trapped' and the film simply unravels from there. Ineptly scripted and shoddily directed, 'Trapped' is nothing more than idiotic, manipulative, repellent trash. Mandoki never saw a basic plot device or ridiculous twist he didn't want to incorporate into his script. All the plot points are signposted in advance and Mandoki repeats them again, just in case we missed it.
It's impossible to believe a team involving Bacon, Love and a fat moron could even pull off one kidnapping, let alone four. This bunch of half-wits constantly make stupid decisions and shoot themselves in the foot. Theron and Townsend aren't much better, overacting wildly as if in competition with their co-stars. Young Fanning gives the only credible performance in the film, she looks embarrassed to be in the company of so many foolish adults.
By the time Love's been paralysed and unparalysed, Theron's hidden a scalpel in her underpants and Townsend's chased a truck with a plane, the film seems to have long forgotten what it was supposed to be about in the first place. The only thought the audience is left with at the end is a sense of wonder that Theron and Bacon got trapped into this mess in the first place. -
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
not as great as the book
This film is quite good and keeps quite close to the storyline of the orginal book written but Greg Iles. However there were some things that changed for the worse rather than the better i.e the changing of character names. I think Stuart Townsend was very wrong for the roll he was much to weak. Also i dont think Courtney Love quite fitted the role she looked too manly for you to believe she was being beaten. However Kevin Bacon was in brilliant form and got the role of psycho perfectly. I think i hadn't read the book first i might have given it another star.
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