Movie Type: Psychological Thriller, Erotic Thriller
Themes: Blackmail, Infidelity, Rape & Sexual Abuse
Main Cast: Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassel, Melissa George, Giancarlo Esposito
Release Year: 2005
Country: US
Run Time: 107 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
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
David Morrissey - Sam Griffin; Georgina Chapman - Candy; Denis O'Hare - Jerry the Lawyer; Tom Conti - Elliot Firth; Allison Timlin - Amy Schine; Xzibit - Dexter; RZA - Winston Boyko
Credit
Jeremy Steckler - Associate Producer, Avy Kaufman - Casting, Carrie Hilton - Casting, Mark Cooper - Co-producer, Natalie Ward - Costume Designer, Sean Guest - First Assistant Director, Mikael Håfström - Director, Peter Boyle - Editor, Jonathan Gordon - Executive Producer, Bob Weinstein - Executive Producer, Harvey Weinstein - Executive Producer, Ed Shearmur - Composer (Music Score), Andrew Laws - Production Designer, Peter Biziou - Cinematographer, Lorenzo Di Bonaventura - Producer, John Midgley - Sound/Sound Designer, Rick LeFevour - Stunts Coordinator, Glenn Marks - Stunts Coordinator, Stuart Beattie - Screenwriter, Lester Dunton - Visual Effects Supervisor, Nigel Mills - Supervising Sound Editor, Marina Morris - Set Decorator, James Siegel - Book Author
