Plot
Vatel director Roland Joffé teams with screenwriters Larry Cohen and Joseph Tura to adapt an original story by Cohen concerning a fashion model (Elisha Cuthbert) and her chauffeur, who are kidnapped and held captive by a sadistic serial killer. Jennifer Tree (Cuthbert) is America's sweetheart; a top fashion model and ubiquitous cover girl who is adored by millions, Jennifer possesses all of the wealth and power that comes with being a natural, world-class beauty. Every girl wants to be Jennifer, and every man wants to have her -- one more than all others combined. That man has been lying in wait for precisely the right moment to strike, and when Jennifer makes the fateful mistake of stepping out on her own at a Soho charity event, he finally sees the opportunity to take possession of his most prized object. Drugged, taken, and placed in a cell, where she is forced to endure unspeakable mental and physical torture, Jennifer struggles against her twisted tormentor with every ounce of courage and fight that she has -- but will it be enough for her to endure should her captor continue to maintain the upper hand? A controversial film long before it ever went into wide release, Captivity caused quite a stir when graphic, unapproved ads for the film appeared on billboards and taxicabs in New York and Los Angeles. Though representatives from Captivity's releasing company After Dark Films claimed that the wrong materials were shipped to the printers and put up before they realized what had happened, public outcry was such that the MPAA saw fit to suspend the ratings process for the film. As a result, it quickly became apparent that Captivity would fail to procure an MPAA rating before its original target release date. ~ Jason Buchanan, RoviCast
- Elisha Cuthbert - Jennifer Tree
- Daniel Gillies - Gary
- Pruitt Taylor Vince - Ben
- Michael Harney - Bettinger
- Laz Alonso - Di Santos
Credit
Marius Vilunas - Associate Producer, Alla Kharebova - Associate Producer, Karen Rea - Casting, Dianne Crittenden - Casting, Tamara Stuparich - Co-producer, Alexandra Mehlman - Co-producer, Jill Gatsby - Co-producer, Stephanie Caleb - Co-producer, Jennifer Marlin - Costume Designer, Jon C. Scheide - First Assistant Director, Boris Kazakov - First Assistant Director, Roland Joffé - Director, Richard Nord - Editor, Courtney Solomon - Executive Producer, Valery Chumak - Executive Producer, Marco Beltrami - Composer (Music Score), Frankie Pine - Musical Direction/Supervision, Allison Wright Clark - Musical Direction/Supervision, Addis Gadzhiev - Production Designer, Daniel Pearl - Cinematographer, Mark Damon - Producer, Gary Mehlman - Producer, Sergei Konov - Producer, Leonid Minkovski - Producer, Marina Androsova - Set Designer, Scott Sanders - Sound/Sound Designer, Larry Cohen - Screen Story, Larry Cohen - Screenwriter, Joseph Tura - Screenwriter, Aaron Millar - Assistant Location Manager| Captives (Film), Captives (1994 Film) | |
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