Actors: Michael Douglas, Sean Bean, Brittany Murphy
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Don't Say a Word
A group of thieves steal a rare gem. Two of the group double cross the leader Patrick Koster (Sean Bean) and take off with the stone. Ten years later Prominent psychiatrrist Nathan Conrad (Douglas) is asked to examina a disturbed patient named Elisabeth Burrows (Brittany Murphy). Patrick Kidnaps Nathan's Daughter, forcing him to try and extract a secret number from Elisabeth which will lead Patrick to the location of the precious gems.
--Bobby Blades, Resident Scholar
Dr. Nathan Conrad (Michael Douglas) is a highly trained and highly paid psychiatrist. His patients usually consist of those wealthy enough to afford his fees, but he cannot turn down his friend's request for help. Dr. Louis Sachs (Oliver Platt) is desperate for someone to break through with a female patient who recently killed someone and could end up jailed in a mental institution for the rest of her life. What Nathan doesn't know when he agrees to help is that locked inside Elisabeth's mind is a series of numbers that Patrick Koster (Sean Bean) is more than willing to kill for...
--Debbie, Resident Scholar
A group of thieves rob a valuable jewel from a bank. One of the thieves becomes a traitor and steals the jewel. He dies but his daughter Elizabeth ends up with it.
Cut to the present. A psychiatrist, Nathan Conrad (Douglas), wakes up and finds that his daughter has been kidnapped. He gets a mysterious phone call from the kidnapper, who happens to be the lead bank robber Patrick (Bean), that tells him that he has to make a woman named Elizabeth (Murphy), the traitor's daughter, snap out of her catatonic state. Elizabeth knows where the jewel is and they will kill Nathan's daughter if they don't get it back in time.
--Dashaun Montanez, Resident Scholar
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Analysis of Don't Say a Word
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Plot
Composition of Movie Actual chase scenes or violence - 30% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- doctor
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
Body type
- very skinny (woman)
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- thief/con artist
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Body type
- average (man)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Kind of violence:
- mission to rescue
- hand to hand
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- crushed
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
Is this movie based on a
- book
