Derailed (DVD)

Charles Schine is a married executive with a sick daughter. Although he is superficially content with his lot, temptation strikes in the form of Lucinda Harris, a beautiful fellow train-goer. One night they go out and end up in a hotel room, but just as they are about to consummate their passion, a criminal called LaRoche breaks into their room and rapes Lucinda while Charles is out cold from a blow to the head. Finding out that the two are having ...
...huge sums of money. Can Charles find a way out of this nightmare before his wife finds out what is going on? Clive Owen plays Charles Schine. Although not an actor I am terribly familiar with, I thought he was good as Charles. It is hard to feel much sympathy for a man who openly cheats on his wife, and Owen didn't overplay this, but he still didn't deserve what happened to him. Then towards the end of the film, his role suddenly changes and isn't ...

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Synopsis Derailed is a psychological thriller in which family man Charles Schine (Clive Owen) is charmed by the attentions of a pretty woman (Jennifer Aniston) he meets on his daily train commute into Chicago. He is an advertising executive with pressures at work, and at home a seriously ill daughter and an ailing marriage; she is Lucinda Harris a successful financial adviser with a distant husband, but also a sweet daughter who "makes it all worth ...
...Features The Making of Derailed and the Theatrical Trailer are worth watching. Three deleted scenes are included, Amy's Sequence, No More Dialysis and Deanna's Affair. Graphics On the DVD cover note how the word DERAILED has the 'DE' and the 'RAILED' slightly out of line with each other - cute. Cost I purchased this DVD as part of a "3 for £15" offer at my local Sainsbury's store.. ...

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...demands twenty thousand dollars….. Derailed had the potential to be a really good little thriller with a good story, some interesting twists and a few bits of good dialogue - but it settles for being a tiresome, bumbling and slow rehash of many other, better movies. The flat script renders all of the twist and turns redundant and by the ending you will be so bored by it all that you won't care what happens to any of the badly drawn characters and ...
...the successful beginning. Derailed would have been better as a short - with 60 minutes the crew could of made a quick, dark and intriguing film with a killer twist, but to make it a feature length the script has nowhere to go but to make all the characters ridiculously stupid. I don't just mean stupid, I mean stooooooopid. Everything that Charles does is idiotic every decision the worst he could possibly make and he seems to have no idea how to live ...

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When bored advertising executive Charles finds himself without a train ticket, he is helped out by attractive stranger Lucinda. Both are looking for distraction from their unfulfilling marriages. But their hotel room liaison turns into a nightmare when the brutish LaRoche breaks in. Charles is beaten to a pulp and forced to look on as the intruder attacks Lucinda. But the terror continues as the attacker then launches a campaign of blackmail against ...
...in Mikael Hafstrom's direction to lift "Derailed" above the rank and file of thrillers. In fact it feels substandard. It uses the now over-familiar device of the circular narrative (starting at the end and working its way back from the beginning) to tell the story. It's trying to be a modern noir with the femme fatale, thug and man in the wrong place motifs. But the director doesn't spend enough time building up the characters and their relationships ...

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Derailed is a thriller based on a book written by James Siegel of the same name. The film isn’t to be confused with Jean-Claude Van Damme’s film of the same name released in 2002. Derailed didn’t exactly do well at the box office, well, that’s a bit of an understatement. Derailed was mauled by over 80% of critics. The film is rated 15 and runs for approximately 106 minutes. Derailed was made on a budget of $22,000,000 and grossed an estimated $57,479,076 ...
...point in watching again, however Derailed is different, it’s something that really captured my attention and even though I know the outcome it’s still an enjoyable film for me to watch every so often. As soon as I saw this film advertised I had high hopes for it. I’m a big fan of thrillers and this one had a brilliant cast which included one of my favourite actresses so I was looking forward to seeing it. One thing that did bother me a little was ...

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Synopsis ====== Clive Owen is a man with a good family, he has two daughters and a wife. One of his daughters has a medical condition and she needs a new unreleased and very expensive drug to stop her rejecting a kidney. Owen is bored with his life, a chance meeting with Jennifer Aniston on a train where she pays for his train ticket leads into dinner and they end up in a seedy hotel room, they are then attacked by a man who pistol whips Owen ...
...cannot go to the police or their respective better halves would find out so they go on with their lives. That is until Owen get's a call from the criminal demanding money for his silence. Eventually he demands $100,000 to leave him alone for good. The dilemma being that the money he has was ear marked for the drug for his daughter. How on earth is he going to get out of this mess of his own making and get the money back for his daughter. Conclusion ...

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This slick thriller was marketed as something of a watershed film for two of the stars. Clive Owen, the male lead Charles Schine, is a fast rising star in Hollywood and has had some prominent roles over the past few years (Sin City, Inside Man, King Arthur). Jennifer Aniston was going through her divorce and her role playing a sexy, more adult role, is a departure from the Rachel Green mould which made her famous - almost like her new beginning ...
...in jail, the story then develops as a flashback as he writes out the truth in a notebook. We see he is a marketing executive with a troubled family life. His teacher wife (Melissa George) and he aren't getting along and further strain is put on the relationship by the fact that their daughter suffers from chronic ashma which is constainly threatening her life and costs them a fortune in medical bills. One day Owen misses his usual train and ends ...

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When Charles (Clive Owen) forgets to bring money to pay for his train fare on the way to work, it leads to a chance encounter with the sexy and aloof Lucinda (Jennifer Aniston). Before they know it they are having lunch together and arranging to have a dirty night away in a hotel. Lucinda feels guilty about cheating on her possessive husband, whilst Charles' home life hasn't been altogether brilliant of late. His daughter is sick and will eventually ...
...by Home and Away's Melissa George) have put all of their savings into. However, when Lucinda and Charles hotel room is broken into whilst they are in the process of making love, Charles is beaten unconscious, and Lucinda is brutally raped. He wants to report it, but she is humiliated and doesn't want her husband to find out. So they both agree they shouldn't see each other again. However, their attacker has a different idea. He blackmails Charles, ...

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Derailed stars Jennifer Aniston as Lucinda Harris and Clive Owen as Charles Schine. The story starts with Charles not being able to afford his fare while on the train and Lucinda paying this for him. This is how they meet and the story develops from there. I had heard and read mixed reviews about this film so decided to watch it for myself so this is my opinion on the film: I found the beginning of the film very slow and I was watching the clock ...
...The two main characters meeting took a while to get going. After this the story speeded up slightly getting to the main point of what these characters meeting had to do with the film plot. The film moves along at a steady speed, never really being anything great but not terrible enough for me to turn it off half way through. I was intrigued to know the ending. After the characters meet, they become friends and then more. Starting from chats on the ...

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saw the cast and expected it to be a rom com but read review and thought id give it a go, how glad am i did, great film keeps you woundering what is going to happen next right down to the end, then when you think you have it worked out something else happens that you didnt expect, Cast of Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassell and Melissa George are all excellent in the roles they play, Jennifer Aniston truly suprised me. Starts off With Charles ...
...Aniston) on a train both seem to be stuck in a rut in there marriages and are instantly attracted o each other and having some excitement, they eventually get it on but disaster happens when they are robbed Lucinda is raped, then the plot thickens and Charles is being blackmailed not wanting to go to the police, in case each other partners find out they look to get out of the mess themselves without anyone knowing. Wont say anyomore but if you like ...

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The first thing I thought when I watched this film was how good Jennifer Aniston was. It was so different from things she normally does (there's no comedy in this film whatsoever! And she's nothing like Rachel her character from Friends). The film also starred Clive Owen and Vincent Cassel who were both excellent. Clive Owen plays a bored married man (Charlie) who plans on having a one night stand with Lucinda (Aniston) in a run down hotel, however ...
...and rapes Lucinda whilst Charlie is lying helplessly on the floor. I won't go in to too much more detail as I don't want to give too much away!! I would highly reccomend this film, it keeps you on the edge of your seat and has many twists and an ending that you will definitely not expect! This is definitely one of the best thrillers I've seen. ...

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When we first saw the cover to this I thought oh no not another love story. How wrong!! Clive Owen(Charles) is running late to catch his train in the morning and ends up boarding the later train- only to realise he forgot to buy a ticket and wih no money in his wallet is approached by the ticket inspector. Trying to explain why he hasnt any money ,Jennifer Aniston (Lucinda) speaks up and pays for his ticket. Charles then goes over and starts speaking ...
...morning. They are both in loveless relationships, Charles because his daughter is very ill and Lucinda because her husband works away most of the as he works for the stock market. As time goes by they start seeing more of each other. One night Charles rings his wife (Melissa George) to let her know that he is working late and not to wait up. This is the night when the affair begins -they end up in this dodgey back street hotel were they start to ...

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