Description: Two men - one in his twenties, the other nearer forty, both intensely focused on the task at hand - line the inside of a transit van with plastic. Shopping, they buy a drill, a mattress and other supplies. In a small flat they assemble a bed for the mattress and staple foam insulation and board to the walls and windows of a bedroom. Then, their meticulous preparations complete, they kidnap a young woman. They drag her from the street into the back of the van and, with a bag over her head and ball gag in her mouth, take her back to the flat, tying her to the bed in the room they have converted into a prison cell. The kidnappers are Danny (Martin Compston) and Vic (Eddie Marsan), two ex-cons planning to make a mint on the ransom for the young woman. The younger, nervier of the two, Danny defers to the more experienced Vic, who acts with a steely conviction. Their hostage is Alice Creed (Gemma Arterton), daughter of a rich businessman, chosen by Vic and Danny as their passport to a better life. Terrified and immobile at first, it soon becomes clear that Alice isn't about to let her captors use her as capital without a fight. As determined to escape as Vic and Danny are to succeed, Alice enters into a battle of wills which strains the already fractious relationship between the two men. As the deadline for the exchange draws nearer, all three are brought close to breaking point, with Vic and Danny's foolproof plan descending into a desperate struggle for survival. A taut, emotionally intense thriller, the debut feature from writer-director J Blakeson eschews genre convention, generating tension from the sexual and psychological ties that bind captive to captors.Produced by Adrian Sturges (The Escapist), the film stars Gemma Arterton (Prince of Persia, Tamara Drewe, Quantum of Solace), Eddie Marsan (Happy-Go-Lucky, Sherlock Holmes) and Martin Compston (Sweet Sixteen, Red Road)
Release Date: 8/6/2010
Genre: Thriller
Studio: Anchor Bay Entertainment
Offical Website: http://www.whereisalicecreed.com
Rating: ![]()
Release Dates:
| Country | Release Type | Date |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Theatrical Wide Release | 8/6/2010 |
| France | Theatrical Wide Release | 6/30/2010 |
| United States | DVD/Blu-ray Release | 11/23/2010 |
Alice Creed man takes hot script Heres an intriguing and potentially very satisfying union of director and script&hellip J Blakeson, who made a splash with 2009s The Disappearance Of Alice Creed , is now in negotiations to tackle much buzzed-about Black List script The Imitation Game for Warner Bros. Graham Moore wrote the screenplay, which explores the complicated and fascinating life of Alan Turing, the mathematician and logician who helped to crack the Enigma code, a vital turning point in World War II. After the conflict, he became a leading light in the development of computer storage and early artificial intelligence. But despite his contribution to the war effort, Turings sexuality saw him arrested in 1952 and charged with indecency. Threatened with jail, he instead chose to take oestrogen supplements to tamp down his sexual appetites. Two years later he was dead fr (Read More)
Alice Creed man takes hot script Heres an intriguing and potentially very satisfying union of director and script... J. Blakeson, who made a splash with 2009s The Disappearance Of Alice Creed , is now in negotiations to tackle much buzzed-about Black List script The Imitation Game for Warner Bros. Graham Moore wrote the screenplay, which explores the complicated and fascinating life of Alan Turing, the mathematician and logician who helped to crack the Enigma code, a vital turning point in World War II. After the conflict, he became a leading light in the development of computer storage and early artificial intelligence. But despite his contribution to the war effort, Turings sexuality saw him arrested in 1952 and charged with indecency. Threatened with jail, he instead chose to take oestrogen supplements to tamp down his sexual appetites. Two years later he was dead from c (Read More)