Rating: NR
Genre:
Thriller
Theatrical Release: 11/11/2005(USA)
Release Date: 03/21/2006
SubTitles: English/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 112 Minutes
Flags: Graphic Violence, Adult Situations, Rape & Sexual Abuse, Profanity, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Genius Products
A clandestine love affair may claim a terrible price from two desperate people in this
psychological thriller.
Charles Schine (
Clive Owen) is an advertising executive who is married to
Deana (
Melissa George) and has a young, diabetic daughter whose third kidney operation just failed.
Charles's life turns a most unexpected corner when he meets
Lucinda Harris (
Jennifer Aniston) on a commuter train.
Lucinda, who is also married with a daughter, keeps bumping into
Charles on the train, and they strike up a friendship that soon grows into something deeper. Eventually
Charles and
Lucinda meet for lunch, then dinner, then check into a posh hotel, but the consequences turn out to be greater than they imagined; the dangerous criminal
Philippe Laroche (
Vincent Cassel) breaks into the couple's hotel room, beats
Charles nearly unconscious, and rapes
Lucinda. The problem doesn't end there, however;
Laroche soon unveils both his certainty that the couple avoided calling the police, and - more troublingly - his possession of
Charles's personal information. When he makes the ill-advised attempt to blackmail the couple,
Charles turns to a rough-cut friend from his workplace who offers to help out -- for a small commission.
Derailed was the first American project for Swedish filmmaker
Mikael Håfström.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
;)
