Adrien Brody, Dylan Baker, Frankie Faison

A masochistic cop (Maura Tierney), who hides her predilection from her cop husband (Terry Kinney), gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini (Adrien Brody), who has kidna...( read more  read more... )pped a rich woman (Laila Robins) and has buried her somewhere in Manhattan while demanding a ransom from her tycoon husband (James Naughton). Failure to pay the ransom within 24 hours will lead the kidnapper to abandon the woman. Dylan Baker also appears as the fed that is assigned to the case.

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R, 92 min.

Directed by: Richard Shepard

Release Date: November 12, 1999

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DVD Release Date: January 11, 2000

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  • December 21, 2008
    Poughskeepie police detective Madeline Foster is assigned to a case where kidnappers have abducted the wife of wealthy Clark Hannon and buried her in a coffin in the woods and are demanding a million dollar ransom before the 24 hours of oxygen she has left runs out. The police su...( read more)cceed in apprehending Harry, the leader of the operation. But he proves a criminal genius who manipulates the police and FBI in a series of games. He becomes fascinated with Madeline, being drawn to her sexual masochism, and insists that he will tell only her where the body is buried.

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  • October 23, 2009
    A pretty cool thriller, not very known!
  • August 19, 2009
    It is definetly like a nightmare come true, being burried alive... This movie was good.. It's got a good cast and some good acting.. Adrien Brody played bad very good.. Didn't really look like he could pull it off to me.. But he ended up proving me wrong.. I say his protrayal of ...( read more)his charachter is what kept this movie afloat..
  • February 27, 2009
    Great movie! Maura Tierney's performance was fantastic!
  • January 28, 2009
    one of the best adrien brody film
    well made
  • December 18, 2008
    The best thing about this movie is Adrien Brody's performance.
  • October 17, 2008
    No thankyou - Not interested
  • August 10, 2008
    This Is One Ov My Best Films Ever!
  • June 16, 2008
    I love Adrien Brody. This movie is watchable, but not the greatest...

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