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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Miramax
Salesrank: 52823
Released: June 4, 2002 |
| Our Price: $6.14 |
| Used Price: $2.98 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
This critically acclaimed erotic thriller stars Julia Ormond (SABRINA) and Tim Roth (PLANET OF THE APES) in a sexy story of forbidden desire and dangerous entrapment! After a beautiful woman (Ormond) unexpectedly finds passion with a mysterious loner (Roth), they secretly begin an illicit affair! But soon, blackmail turns the relationship into a far more dangerous situation than they could have ever imagined! With everything at risk it's an impossible predicament that leaves them nowhere to hide ... and delivers riveting big-screen entertainment!
Description of Captives:
The thrill of forbidden passion electrifies the air when young dentist Julia Ormand, the wounded victim of a rough divorce, falls for sad, soulful convict Tim Roth, a patient in her part-time prison duties. Her impulsive embrace of a man who seduces her with whispered confessions and little love bites (how better to flirt with a dentist?) and the rush of their affair raises unsettling questions: what exactly are his motives, and what crime is he in prison for? Captives can't decide whether it’s a tale of obsessive love or a film noir thriller with an erotic twist, and it finally falls back on mundane complications. But delicate Ormand is a beauty with a deer-in-the-headlights look, and Roth steals the film with his simmering and tragic eyes. --Sean Axmaker
Captives Reviews:
Illicit Love 
2009-11-21 - I realize this isn't actually a 5 star movie, but the acting by both Tim Roth and Julia Ormond was excellent and their chemistry amazing. The premise didn't make much sense, a female dentist working in a prison and why at the beginning, this job was so important to her. She was insecure as her husband had cheated on her and Philip Chaney (Roth) was in prison for killing his wife for the same reason.
She still continued to love and trust him, even after the truth became known to her.He was lonely, desolate, isolated and yearning for female contact. Their rapport and connection was immediate and I would like to think his actions were beyond his control and he was seeking redemption. I can't tell you how many times I watched this movie for the marvelous acting and their relationship. The way he looked at her at the end, when he said that he'd go to the Governor and protect her, was so moving and sincere.
Should he, who was so insecure and yearning for love, be trusted by her, I don't know. Personally, I'd be very leery as he committed murder out of jealousy. Could he have changed during those 10 years of isolation. He appeared so, sweet, kind, empathetic and understanding, but there was a violent side to him. She felt dreadfully betrayed and violated, losing trust for her husband. Philip was there attentive, witty, attractive and intelligent and doting on her. I'd like to think her trust in him wouldn't be an error but I might be as vulnerable as she was. She was mesmerized by him.
BLAND 
2009-09-14 - Despite your love of Tim Roth avoid this borefest. It's predictable, characters running in and out acting strange without explanation. Anyone could have done Roth's job, he brought nothing to the table. As a result the film falls flat on it's face.
Strong stuff as someone put it - couldn't say better
2009-02-12 - Let me disagree with the statement that movie makes it look like it's a justifiable homicide. I think what the movie does excellently is revealing and developing Roth's character - and he is obviously not a "common" criminal. He is what we might call a normal man who happens to feel perhaps more deeply/strongly than some and that makes him react the way he did to his wife's affair. He is shown to have a had a normal life once, with a normal job of "wiring and rewiring houses" - a person who just happened to make a critical mistake, a wrong turn you might call it. He is not a violent man yet he has to learn to defend himself in the environment he found himself in - that's shown so well in the scene with the two "pillow case" attackers (what do they say about prisons actually making people worse than they used to be? it's all the environment). I think the movie shows that not everything can be called black and white, good or bad, but things in real life are more complicated, people are complicated creatures, they make mistakes.
I almost agreed with you that Phillip is not shown with enough caring for Rachel's well-being, safety and right to know the character of the man she is with. Yes, sometimes when I watched the scene where he gives her a hug in the university, I thought - come on, man, is that really all the support you can offer your woman, a shoulder to cry on? But then again I think the movie attempts to show just that - he is not the perfect man, a knight on a white horse, he is a broken man who found his life took an unexpected turn and brought him where he never expected to be, an environment of gangsters, murderers, rapists. So he is deeply vulnerable and in a way powerless - he doesn't have the outside-of-prison connections like Towler does because was never from that environment. Remember the scene when he hangs up making it look like they got disconnected, how he knocks on the phone stand revealing utter nervousness - "vulnerable" is written all over that. So again I think the movie does an unbelivable job of showing the depths of the character, never black and white.
Still loving this movie...
2007-09-23 - I've been watching this movie for years and enjoy it as much each time I watch it. It is definitely a keeper. I would love to entertain Roth in a john somewhere, or anywhere for that matter. And Ormond, beautiful and awesome to watch. Both did consummate jobs of this movie.
Tim, el actor más magnético.
2007-02-15 - La película donde más podemos disfrutar de todo el atractivo del actor más apasionado (y apasionante) de la actualidad. Es una lástima que no le ofrezcan más papeles de este tipo donde pueda lucir, sin reparos, todo su sex-appeal.
Si él supiera español..., le diría que es magnífico.
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