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Sharon F. (Shar) from AVON PARK, FL
Reviewed on 10/2/2022...

Michael Douglas makes the best suspense movies and this one is no exception.

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 extremely 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.

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K. K. (GAMER)
Reviewed on 1/14/2022...

Solid plotline with Sean Bean, Michael Douglas and others but seemed to fizzle in the middle.

Jon M. (Johnny) from ASHLAND, MA
Reviewed on 7/7/2016...

This viewer is not certain if Michael Douglas has yet been given all the accolades he is due. He's a good guy, a bad guy, an everyman, a nobody. But he always manages to shine as an actor.