Twisted (2004 film)
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| Directed by | Philip Kaufman |
| Produced by | Barry Baeres |
| Written by | Sarah Thorp |
| Starring | Ashley Judd Samuel L. Jackson Andy García David Strathairn Russell Wong Mark Pellegrino |
| Editing by | Peter Boyle |
| Studio | United International Pictures |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | February 27, 2004 |
| Running time | 97 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $50,000,000 |
| Box office | $40,954,603 |
Twisted is a 2004 American thriller film written by Sarah Thorp and directed by Philip Kaufman. It stars Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson and Andy García. The film is set in San Francisco, California.
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[edit] Plot
Having solved a high profile case involving a serial killer, Jessica Shepard (Ashley Judd) is a rising officer in the San Francisco Police Department. She is transferred to the Homicide division and promoted to the rank of Inspector. Her deceased father's former partner, John Mills (Samuel L. Jackson), serves as her proud mentor. The recently promoted Jessica finds that she might once again have to prove herself in a department that takes no prisoners.
When one of her former one night stands is murdered, she and her new partner, Mike Delmarco (Andy García), are assigned to the case. Shepard, who also has a drinking problem, soon falls under suspicion. Three more murders follow, all of whom have had relationships with her.
Shepard begins to experience a mental breakdown, blacking out for increasingly long periods of time. Her father, a police patrolman, had gone on a killing spree back in the 1970s and then murdered her mother. She begins to fear that she has the same violent tendencies and that she has been committing murder in her disorganized state.
With only her mentor's support she must find the perpetrator and clear her name, before she becomes the murderer's next victim.
Finally Shepard finds out that Mills is the killer. He killed all of her lovers, as well as her parents, because he considered it his mission to prevent her growing up to be a dissolute woman like her mother. As her father's partner, he had felt the responsibility to inform him that his wife was a nymphomaniac, which drove him insane. As he had an illicit affair with Shepard's mother, and took offense to her behavior, he felt the need to kill her and her lovers. Also ashamed that he destroyed his partner's marriage and drove him insane, he decided to put him out of his misery by killing him. During his confession, Shepard secretly transmits Mills' confession on a mobile phone, allowing her old partner to track them down. When Mills tries to shoot her partner, Shepard shoots him in the chest and he falls off the dock. The film closes on him drifting on the ocean surface surrounded by sea lions as the cops look on.
[edit] Reception
Despite its well-established director and cast, Twisted received almost extremely negative reviews with a 2% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[1] One reviewer described the role-reversal of the film as "contrived", while allowing that the film "may dole out a few guilty pleasures".[2]
[edit] Box office
The film generated $25,198,598 in the United States and Canada and $15,756,005 in other territories for a combined worldwide gross of $40,954,603[3] - well below the film's production budget of $50 million.
[edit] Cast
- Ashley Judd as Jessica Shepard
- Samuel L. Jackson as John Mills
- Andy García as Mike Delmarco
- David Strathairn as Dr. Melvin Frank
- Russell Wong as Lieutenant Tong
- Camryn Manheim as Lisa
- Mark Pellegrino as Jimmy Schmidt
- Titus Welliver as Dale Becker
- D.W. Moffett as Ray Porter
- Richard T. Jones as Wilson Jefferson
- Leland Orser as Edmund Cutler
- James Oliver Bullock as John Flanagan
- William Hall as Chip Marshall
- Joe Duer as Larry Geber
- Jim Hechim as Bob Sherman
[edit] Trivia
Featured in this movie are Mark Pellegrino and Titus Welliver, who also appear together in the ABC series Lost, as Jacob and "The Man In Black" respectively.
They were also the cast in the roles of the angel Lucifer and War, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, in the series "Supernatural".
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Twisted Movie Reviews, Pictures. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2010-11-28.
- ^ Review of 'Twisted'. EmpireOnline.com. Retrieved 2010-11-28.
- ^ Twisted (2004). Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2010-11-28.
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