Trapped (2002)

September 2002

(14)

Synopsis

Joe and Cheryl Hickey (Kevin Bacon and Courtney Love), along with Joe's cousin Marvin (Pruitt Taylor Vince), have orchestrated and refined a foolproof plan to extort money from wealthy families. Their next victims are anesthesiologist Will Jennings (Stuart Townsend) and his wife, Karen (Charlize Theron), a textile designer, whose comfortable lives are shattered when the Hickeys abduct their 6-year-old daughter (Dakota Fanning) while Will is out of town at a conference. Trapped in different cities, Will and Karen discover how far each will go to get their daughter back. And as the "perfect" crime unravels, so does a shocking history that changes everything. Based on the novel by Greg Iles, Trapped is a harrowing thriller about a family that turns the tables on their captors.© 2002 24 Hours Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Reviews

3.8

14 total

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Dennis Lim

Brisk hack job.

Chuck Wilson

Adapting his novel 24 Hours, first-time screenwriter Greg Iles has neglected to include in his plotting a sense of impending doom, a lack of purpose that isn't helped by the arid filmmaking style of director Luis Mandoki.

Lisa Schwarzbaum

The movie is a negligible work of manipulation, an exploitation piece doing its usual worst to guilt-trip parents.

Geoff Pevere

Indifferently implausible popcorn programmer of a movie.

Jan Stuart

Not really bad so much as distasteful: We need kidnapping suspense dramas right now like we need doomsday thrillers.

Kenneth Turan

True to its title, it traps audiences in a series of relentlessly nasty situations that we would pay a considerable ransom not to be looking at.

Cast and credits

Actors	Stuart Townsend, Courtney Love, Kevin Bacon, Charlize Theron
Producers	Luis Mandoki, Mimi Polk Gitlin
Director	Luis Mandoki
Writers	Greg Iles

Additional information

Rotten tomatoes® score

18%

Audio language

English (Stereo, 5.1 Surround)

Subtitles

English

Info cards

Enabled

Run time

105 minutes

Rating

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