Don't Say a Word

2001 "...I'll never tell."
6.3| 1h53m| R| en| More Info
Released: 28 September 2001 Released
Producted By: 20th Century Fox
Country: United States of America
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When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he's horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a post traumatic stress disorder suffering young woman who knows a secret..

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Rainey Dawn As a young girl Brittany Murphy witnessed a gang of men hunting her father down which resulted in his death. She was severely traumatized and institutionalized after that. The gang leader, Patrick, has tracked her down and has also taken the daughter of psychiatrist Nathan Conrad hostage in order to force Dr. Conrad into finding out a 6 digit number that Brittany has in her memory. It's a fast-paced, worth watching thriller that leaves no room for long boring scenes - full of thrills from start to finish - I was captured from the very start. Quite a bit of screen time for Sean Bean fans!8/10
lancecherubin Despite what others say about the ridiculous plot, I liked this movie. Michael Douglas did a fantastic job as a passionate father willing to do anything to preserve the life of his daughter. His wife however (Famke Jansenn) really kicks some serious butt, for a lady on crutches. She's very intuitive and although being confined to a bed for most of the movie, she still manages to play an integral role. The main villain Patrick, didn't sound the part with his rather refined English accent, but he certainly played the part well through his manipulation of the Conrad family.Brittany Murphy did a stellar job in her role as a neurotic young lady who holds the key to the mystery of the movie, a numbered code. Finally, Jennifer Esposito, surprised me in that she's dropped dead gorgeous, but she proved to be as tough as nails and persistent in trying to find the connections between a number of unsolved deaths. At the end she takes a bullet for a worthy cause and is the x-factor hero, so to speak, of the entire film. Generally, the movie presents a nice mix of suspense and action to keep most thriller fans interested. It won't blow you out of your seat, but at least it will keep you thinking.
anthony_retford I recently quit working for ADT, where I was steered to sell video surveillance systems. So what was shown in this movie was very familiar to me and other ADT people. However, how did the Patrick gang get access to the apartment to install video and audio in every room it seemed? And how did they install a transmitting device behind the grille in the mental institution? To install video that cannot be noticed by the inhabitants of an apartment would have to be CIA-grade equipment. Even the smallest cameras on the open market would have been seen not only by the parents but by the little girl. And I suppose they broke in at night and installed everything, not! Obviously these were plot devices to enable Patrick to have complete control over his victims.
allisonever As a movie, Don't Say A Word is full of things that have already been done before in the movies. It can be cliché and a bit overly-sappy with it's main family characters, but somewhere deep within lies a spark of real potential. Basically, its plot centers around a man name Dr. Conrad trying to rescue his daughter. Same old story right? That's when Brittany Murphy enters. She's what the whole film should have been centered on. She is SUPERB in her role as the sympathetic and slightly nutty Elisabeth. Similar to the late Heath Ledger, Murphy really got into her role and gave it her all, making me feel truly saddened that such a good performance got overlooked by the critics when the film came out. Rest in peace, Brittany. We lost you too soon.As a whole, the film is okay. It runs at a rather slow pace at the beginning, but manages to be rather effective whenever Murphy is on screen. Overall, I would have given it a 6 out of 10 but Murphy's performance pushes it up by a point. 7 out of 10.