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List Price: $12.95 | | Label: Weinstein Company, The
Salesrank: 13522
Released: March 21, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A clandestine love affair may claim a terrible price from two desperate people in this intelligent thriller. Charles Schine (Clive Owen) is an advertising executive who is happily married to Deana (Melissa George) and has a young daughter. However that begins to change when Charles meets Lucinda Harris (Jennifer Aniston) on a commuter train. Lucinda who is also married with a daughter keep bumping into Charles on the train and they strike up a friendship that soon grows into something deeper. Eventually Charles and Lucinda fall into infidelity but the consequences turn out to be greater than they imagined; Philippe Laroche (Vincent Cassel) is a dangerous criminal with a taste for violence who has learned about the affair. Laroche demands a substantial payment if he is to keep the word of Charles and Lucinda's relationship from their spouses but they become convinced that Laroche is not to be trusted and that he may mean to do greater harm to their loved ones that simply telling them they've been unfaithful. Derailed was the first American project for Swedish filmmaker Mikael Hafstrom.System Requirements:Running Time: 108 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS UPC: 796019786492 Manufacturer No: 78649
Description of Derailed (Unrated Widescreen):
With a nasty villain and a plot twist that will take many viewers by surprise, Derailed is the kind of potboiler that's enjoyable in spite of its flaws. It's basically two-thirds of a good movie, with a convincing set-up and a barely plausible payoff that... well, you've just got to see it and decide for yourself. Like Fatal Attraction, it's a good-enough thriller that turns infidelity into every man's nightmare, beginning when Charles (Clive Owen), a well-to-do Chicago advertising director with a sickly, diabetic daughter and a slightly troubled marriage, has a chance encounter with Lucinda (Jennifer Aniston), a lovely and quick-witted financial advisor who's also stuck in a marital rut. Their chemistry is instant (between both characters and stars), but their eventual hotel tryst is interrupted by a mugger (French actor Vincent Cassel at his vile, despicable best) who's out to milk Charles for every dollar he's got. Of course, one phone call to the police would solve everyone's problems, but as he did with Collateral (albeit more convincingly), screenwriter Stuart Beattie turns up the tension with such manipulative skill that you're willing to skate past the plot holes and go along for the ride. With lively supporting performances by rappers Xzibit and RZA, Derailed marks a commercially slick American debut for Swedish director Mikael Håfström, whose 2003 thriller Evil was a Best Foreign Film Oscar®-nominee. --Jeff Shannon
Derailed (Unrated Widescreen) Reviews:
good but kind of stupid 
2008-07-16 - The first obervation is that all of the blacks in this film were thugs, cons, ex-cons or related to an ex-con. This is pathetic. The film was made in 2005, but we are now living in a time when an African-American stands the best chance than ever of becoming the president.
Other than its portrayal of blacks, the film has a very simple plot and nothing comes as too much of a suprise. It has its moments but mostly on the level of a cheaply made TV police drama.
From the first scene on the train, it's easy to figure that Jennifer Anniston's character is up to something. The way she talks to the man on the train is indicative of a woman who is a practiced seductress. Then we wonder where she got her experience.
The robbery/rape scene seems strange from the beginning. My initial thoughts were: why is he doing that? What kind of criminal would do something so stupid?
Jennifer Anniston's character says somewhere in the film "we never appreciate or value what we have". I think this is basically what the gist of the film is all about. The main character in the film didn't appreciate what he had with his family, otherwise he would have never got tangled up in that mess which costed him so much more than just his bank account.
IT'S ONLY ME, BUT: 
2008-06-01 - CLIVE OWEN IS MARRIED WITH A CHILD WHO NEEDS A TRANSPLANT REQUIRING BIG TIME MONEY. JENNIFER ANISTEN AND HE BOY FRIEND RUN A RING OF THUGS WHO SET UP MEN WITH MONEY TO FIRST GET THEM TO HOTEL RUMS WITH JEN, AND THEN BEAT THE HELL OUT OF THEM, ROB THEM, AND THEN WEEKS LATER COME BACK AND BLACKMAIL THEM. CLIVE WILL TURN THE SCEME BACK ON THEM. JM
Surprisingly Good
2008-05-15 - This is a good, solid movie, well above average. The plot twists are very entertaining, and I didn't see any of them coming. The video and sound on the DVD are very good. This is worth a purchase at around $5-6.
Derailed and decieved 
2008-05-02 - I've always loved thrillers, that "who done it" mentality, and wondering what will happen next. Perhaps the best thing about these movies is guessing who really is the villain and what the bigger plan is. For me, I guessed the ending about halfway through the movie and left the remainder to unfold. Still, this was a good movie.
Clive Owen plays Charles, a well to do, average guy in a Chicago suburb who is living a somewhat boring and somewhat troubled life. His marriage is not exactly happy these days, and he has a sickly, diabetic child who is taking a toll on him. On a train to the city one day, he meets a clever, cheerful Jennifer Aniston. They go from casual aquaintences to friends, then, thinking this is going to turn into a Fatal Attraction-esque movie, he decides to have a tryst with Aniston in a sleazy hotel room. Their encounter goes terribly wrong when a mugger breaks in, and soon he is being terrorized literally and figuratively by his own guilt and the mugger's continued harassment of him and his family.
How many little moments of insanity have cost us things? Adultery, wanting to steal that pretty little item, greediness, and jealousy have always motivated us to do things we wish we hadn't. And we wish we hadn't given into those little wants or needs that ended up costing us things. It is part of life's learning experiences. None of us are perfect. This is an extreme example of what happens when we don't think about the consequences of our actions. A good movie, a tad predictable, but still a good time.
DERAILED (HD DVD)
2008-04-22 - [
[ASIN:B000J10KUU Derailed (Unrated) [HD DVD]]]
THIS MOVIE WAS VERY GOOD. I SAW IT BEFORE THAT IS WHY I BOUGHT IT IN
HD DVD,
