Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
Summary |
A veteran police detective, on the day of his retirement, handles the case of a seven-year-old girl who has been brutally murdered. When a mentally retarded man confesses to the murder and then kills himself, the detectives consider the case closed, but was he actually the murderer? Before long evidence is uncovered that suggests the girl was just one in a series of brutal killings involving young girls and a mysterious man |
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Off-air recording of Movie Extra Channel broadcast May1, 2009. Copied under Part VA of the Copyright Act |
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Based on the book "The pledge" by Friedrich Durrenmatt |
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Rated: MA. |
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DVD |
Credits |
Director: Sean Penn ; Screenplay writers: Jerzy Kromolowski, Mary Olson-Kromolowski |
Cast |
Jack Nicholson, Patricia Clarkson, Benicio Del Toro, Aaron Eckhart, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn, Vanessa Redgrave, Sam Shepard, Harry Dean Stanton |
Notes |
Originally released as a motion picture United States : Morgan Creek Productions/Franchise Pictures/Clyde is Hungry Films/Pledge Productions/Warner Bros. Pictures, c2001 |
Subject |
Detective and mystery plays
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Feature films
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Author |
Penn, Sean, 1960-
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Kromolowski, Jerzy
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Olson-Kromolowski, Mary
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Nicholson, Jack
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Clarkson, Patricia
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Toro, Benicio del, 1967-
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Eckhart, Aaron
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Mirren, Helen
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Wright, Robin, 1966-
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Redgrave, Vanessa, 1937-
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Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017
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Stanton, Harry Dean, 1926-
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Dürrenmatt, Friedrich.
Versprechen. English
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Movie Extra
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