Do not say a word

Movie
German title	Do not say a word
Original title	Don't say a word
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2001
length	109 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16 ; JMK 14
Rod
Director	Gary Fleder
script	Anthony Peckham ; Patrick Smith Kelly
production	Anne Kopelson ; Arnold Kopelson
music	Mark Isham
camera	Amir M. Mokri
cut	Poor Minasian ; William Steinkamp
occupation
	Michael Douglas : Nathan R. Conrad; Sean Bean : Patrick Koster; Brittany Murphy : Elisabeth Burrows; Skye McCole Bartusiak : Jessie Conrad; Guy Torry : Dolen; Jennifer Esposito : Sandra Cassidy; Famke Janssen : Aggie Conrad; Oliver Platt : Dr. Louis Sachs; Shawn Doyle : Russel Maddox; Victor Argo : Sydney Simon; Conrad Goode : Max Dunlevy; Paul Schulze : Jake; Lance Reddick : Arnie; Aidan Devine : Leon Edward Croft;

Say no word is an American thriller by Gary Fleder , based on the novel Don't Say a Word by Andrew Klavan . It was filmed in 2001 with Michael Douglas , Sean Bean and Brittany Murphy in the lead roles.

action

Patrick Koster and his accomplices steal a red diamond worth about ten million US dollars from a bank , but an accomplice named Burrows disappears with the gem. Koster is arrested after he and his accomplices push Burrows in front of a subway train when he refused to give up the diamond. Burrows dies and Koster goes to jail. After ten years he is released and plans to get the diamond.

The psychiatrist Nathan R. Conrad treats the young suicide-prone Elisabeth Burrows, who has been treated unsuccessfully in various mental hospitals for years . She is the daughter of the accomplice Burrows and had to watch as a child how Koster killed her father. Koster knows that Elisabeth knows the place where the gemstone you are looking for is hidden. He also knows that Elisabeth knows a number related to the hiding place. He kidnaps Jessie, Conrad's daughter, and demands that he find out this information within a few hours. Otherwise he threatens the murder of Jessie.

Within the time he has left, Conrad tries to find access to Elisabeth. He succeeds in winning her trust, and he sets off with her to look for the gem.

The two of them and the gang following them arrive at Potter's Field on New York's Hart Island , a cemetery for unidentified persons, which also houses the anonymous grave of Elizabeth's father. The number that Elisabeth knew, and that Conrad was supposed to find out, turns out to be the number of the grave in which Burrows was buried. Ten years earlier, Elisabeth had put her doll, in which Burrows had hidden the diamond, in her father's coffin before her father's funeral.

When Koster has taken the diamond in the doll and wants to have Conrad killed, he can put the assigned gang member out of action. Another member of the gang is struck down by the policewoman Sandra Cassidy, who came to the cemetery on the trail of Conrad and the criminals. However, Cassidy is shot by Koster, whom Conrad can push into a ditch and cause it to collapse. Koster is buried alive with the gem. Conrad can hug his daughter unharmed. Elisabeth also remains unharmed.

background

The film was released by 20th Century Fox . It cost the producers about 50 million US dollars and played in the cinemas of the United States about 55 million US dollars.

Film music

Funky cold medina - Tone Loc
5 By Steve - Steve Weisberg
Fee Fie Foo - Louis Prima
Music - John Williams
Promises - India.Arie
Pride and Joy - Marvin Gaye
Dream a Little Dream of Me - Ella Fitzgerald
Pink Toenails - Skye McCole Bartusiak

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Reviews

The critic F.-M. Helmke from www.filmszene.de accused the thriller of "absolute brainlessness".

On January 19, 2002, Ulrike Steiner of the OÖ Nachrichten (www.ooen.at) wrote that the story would be rolled up in a tricky and exciting way from two ends, only to be annoyingly given away in a stupid “ A man sees red ” final .

The lexicon of the international film judged: “Technically solidly staged action thriller that forms the storylines into an exciting structure and thus creates a gloomy atmosphere of threats and surveillance. The external action of course only insufficiently covers some content-related and logical deficiencies. "

"Don't say a word: Effective kidnapping thriller with a Hitchcock influence, in which a psychiatrist has to coax the hiding place of a jewel out of a patient."

- Kino.de