Constrained kidnap thriller told in parallel action but out-of-step chronology, crosscutting between the teased-out details of an Ohio businessman's abduction ("The man Hertz and Avis are afraid of"), over the course of the first day, and the impact on his family over the numberless days that follow. The why of the kidnapping is a mystery whose interest soon peters out. Interest in the performance of Helen Mirren as the wife, on the other hand, holds up throughout, even past the unapproachable peak of her delicately graded reaction to evidence that her husband's broken-off extramarital affair soon got picked up again. With Robert Redford, Willem Dafoe, Matt Craven; directed by Pieter Jan Brugge. (2004) — Duncan Shepherd
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