Twisted (2004)
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1% of critics liked it
(135 reviews) -
40% of users liked it
(18,730 ratings)
Philip Kaufman directs the detective thriller Twisted (originally to be titled The Blackout Murders), with a script by up-and-coming filmmaker Sarah Thorp. Ashley Judd plays troubled police detective Jessica Shepard, who works under the jurisdiction of the man who raised her as his daughter, police… More Philip Kaufman directs the detective thriller Twisted (originally to be titled The Blackout Murders), with a script by up-and-coming filmmaker Sarah Thorp. Ashley Judd plays troubled police detective Jessica Shepard, who works under the jurisdiction of the man who raised her as his daughter, police Commissioner Mills (Samuel L. Jackson). While investigating a serial murder case, Jessica -- who is has a proclivity for dangerous, drunken one-night-stands -- discovers that all of the victims are men whom she's recently bedded. Complicating matters are her bitter ex-boyfriend (Mark Pellegrino), her very curious therapist (David Strathairn), and her odd-behaving new partner Mike Delmarco (Andy Garcia). ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
- Directed By
- Philip Kaufman
- Written By
- Sarah Thorp
- Genres
- Mystery & Suspense, Drama
R,
- In Theaters
- Feb 27, 2004 Wide
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
Critic Reviews
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, Chicago Reader
This thriller seems most interested in lingering over battered and bloodied male faces.
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, Time Out
Sarah Thorpe's screenplay is a compendium of by-the-book clichés; Kaufman's direction leaves the material stranded in a limbo between po-faced and trashy; Judd's approximation of drunkenness is worrying to behold.
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Rex Reed, New York Observer
The outdated, cliche-riddled direction is so inept and indifferent that it's hard to believe Twisted was lensed by the same Philip Kaufman who made The Right Stuff.
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Jorge Morales, Village Voice
A suspense thriller without thrills or suspense.
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Charles Taylor, Salon.com
Judd is let down by Twisted because tearful, confused victim doesn't come naturally to her; she's not fun to watch suffer if you can't see her calculating the payback.
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Cast
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Ashley Judd
as Jessica Shepard
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Samuel L. Jackson
as Commissioner John Mills
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Andy Garcia
as Mike Delmarco
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David Strathairn
as Dr. Melvin Frank
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Russell Wong
as Lieutenant Tong
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Camryn Manheim
as Lisa
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Mark Pellegrino
as Jimmy Schmidt
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Titus Welliver
as Dale Becker
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D.W. Moffett
as Ray Porter
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Richard T. Jones
as Wilson Jefferson
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Leland Orser
as Edmund Culter
- William Hall
- Bill Duke
- James Hechim
