'Derailed' is shiny escapism
by Eleanor Ringel Gillespie

"Derailed" is all too apt a title. But before the movie goes off track, it cooks up a nasty little suspense thriller about wandering spouses. At first more "Falling in Love" (a 1984 tale of adultery starring Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro) than "Fatal Attraction," the movie takes an unnerving twist that has nothing to do with boiling bunnies. Read the full review

TO SUM UP
A successful advertising executive and family man meets an alluring woman on his morning commute. Flirtation quickly escalates into passion. The fling turns dangerous when a violent criminal confronts the pair and pulls them into a dangerous plot.

FILM FACTS ...
The Weinstein Company
'Derailed'

Director: Mikael Hafstrom
Starring: Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Melissa George, Vincent Cassel, Robert 'The RZA' Diggs
Run time: 110 minutes
Release date: Nov. 11, 2005
Rating: R for strong disturbing violence, language and some sexuality.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: C+
"(Vincent) Cassel, a superstar in Europe and the debonair thief in Ocean's Twelve, walks off with the movie as a deadly bit of Eurotrash who thinks messing with people's lives is a lark. And an income."

Austin American-Statesman: 2 of 5 stars
"By the end, it's a little hard to care."


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