Don't Say a Word (2001)

	Directed by: Gary Fleder	COUNTRY USA GENRE Psychological thriller NORWEGIAN TITLE Don't Say a Word RUNNING TIME 113 minutes
	Produced by: Arnon Milchan Arnold Kopelson Anne Kopelson
	Written by (based on the book by Andrew Klavan): Anthony Peckham Patrick Smith Kelly

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Nathan Conrad	Michael Douglas
Patrick Koster	Sean Bean
Elisabeth Borrows	Brittany Murphy	½
Jessie Conrad	Skye McCole Bartusiak	½
Martin Dolen	Guy Torry	-
Sandra Cassidy	Jennifer Esposito	½
Russel Maddox	Shawn Doyle	-
Sydney Simon	Victor Argo	-
Aggie Conrad	Famke Janssen
Louis Sachs	Oliver Platt

Review

A 1990s-style thriller with that early-2000s grainy, colour-depleted visuals, directed by the often bumbling Gary Fleder. The opening is easily the film's best part; it sets the stage for what could have been an engaging thriller, with a jewel heist gone awry followed by the appearance of Brittany Murphy as a mysterious mental case ten years later. Unfortunately, Murphy's character is preposterous, and bad guy Sean Bean goes directly into cliché mode, whereas Michael Douglas et al. take a little more time getting there. The ending is a greatest hits of implausibilities and bad directing. The late Skye McCole Bartusiak is aptly precocious as Douglas' young daughter.