DON'T SAY A WORD

Year: 2001
USA & UK: Twentieth Century Fox
Cast: Michael Douglas, Brittany Murphy, Famke Janssen, Sean Bean, Oliver Platt, Jennifer Esposito, Lorli Villanueva, Isabella Fink, Conrad Goode, Paul J Q Lee, Skye McCole Bartusiak, Guy Torry
Director: Gary Fleder
Country: USA
USA: 112 mins
UK: 113 mins
USA Rated: R for violence, including some gruesome images, and language
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language and violence
USA Release Date: 28 September 2001
UK Release Date: 22 February 2002


Synopsis

Dr. Nathan Conrad (Michael Douglas) is a respected psychiatrist in uptown Manhattan. On the night before Thanksgiving, an old friend and colleague urges Nathan to help him with a particularly difficult patient, Elizabeth Burrows (Brittany Murphy). Elizabeth is an eighteen-year-old girl who witnessed the death of her father ten years earlier and has been in mental hospitals ever since. She is catatonic, refusing to eat or talk to anyone.

The following morning, Nathan's eight-year-old daughter, Jessie, is kidnapped. The kidnapper informs Nathan that in order to get her back, he must get a seven-digit number from his newest patient, Elizabeth, by 5 PM that evening or his daughter will be killed. Now, Nathan must race against time in a struggle to elicit the number from the catatonic Elizabeth and save his daughter's life.

Caught up in a race against time, he attempts to establish a connection with his unwilling patient, and encourage her to revisit the traumatic memories of her past. This, he hopes should help her to confront her memories and save his only child whilst his wife Aggie (Famke Janssen) lies helpless in bed with a broken leg.

As the painful truth begins to emerge, Conrad learns that Elisabeth's father was viciously murdered by Koster after he had double-crossed the gang and escaped with a valuable gem. The sought-after number inside the young girl's head will hopefully lead everyone involved to the remote Hart Island and, ultimately, the precious stone, but at what cost?

DVD EXTRAS

Subtitles: Hard of Hearing English, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 (16x9)
Sound Quality: Dolby 5.1
Extras: Audio commentary by director Gary Felder
9 Scene Specific commentaries by actors
Making Of featurette
12 "Cinema Master Class" sequences
3 Deleted Scenes
Approx. 71 Cast and Crew Biog pages

VHS EXTRAS

Making Of featurette
3 Deleted Scenes