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Derailed - Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Melissa George, Vincent Cassel, Mikael Håfström

Threat advisory: Elevated - Significant risk of entertaining activities

Movie propaganda

They never saw it coming.

Advertising director Charles Schine (Clive Owen) is just another Chicago commuter, regularly catching the 8:43 to work. But the day he misses his train is the day that changes his life. He meets Lucinda Harris (Jennifer Aniston); charming, beautiful and a seductively good listener. Charles is instantly attracted and it is immediately apparent that the feeling is mutual, even though she is married too. Lunch dates become cocktails after work, and lead to a rented room in a seedy hotel. But suddenly their illicit liaison turns into a nightmare, and becomes more dangerous and more brutally violent than either could have imagined. Unable to talk to his partner or to the police, Charles finds himself trapped in a world he doesn't recognise, and which he needs to fight his way out of, before his life is derailed for good...

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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

Film crime thriller scam sex affair seedy hotel con commuter train

Persons of interest

Clive Owen .... Charles Schine
Jennifer Aniston .... Lucinda Harris
Vincent Cassel .... Philippe Laroche
Melissa George .... Deanna Schine
RZA .... Winston Boyko
Addison Timlin .... Amy Schine
Tom Conti .... Elliot
Xzibit .... Dexter
Giancarlo Esposito .... Detective Church
David Morrissey .... Sam
Rachel Blake .... Susan
Georgina Chapman .... Candy
Denis O'Hare .... Jerry
James Melody .... Billy
James Siegel .... Author
Stuart Beattie .... Screenwriter
Mikael Håfström .... Director

Cinematic intelligence sources

Derailed official movie site
Derailed film production notes
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Awards and film festivals:

See also Hostage, Man on the train, On the line, Strangers on a train
Studios and distributors:

Buena Vista International

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

Derailed is a thriller and a good one, too. Clive Owen is as sympathetic an adulterer as I've ever seen. Jennifer Aniston isn't wacky or kooky. Melissa George is housewifey. Vincent Cassel is unstoppably criminal - he's so hard-core: très full on. Stuart Beattie has written a cracker. Mikael Håfström made it nice and dirty. I like a good story and Derailed has one. I like it when all the baddies get their just desserts, especially when the goody is a baddy, too. No-one is untainted in this movie. Cool.

Of course, there's a twist, but it's a twist that you won't see coming. That's the kind of twist I like: the kind that hits you right between the eyes, leaving you like a stunned mullet on the beach.

You'll never take the train again.