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Derailed is a 2005 crime thriller film based on the novel of the same name by James Siegel. The film was directed by Mikael Håfström and stars Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassel, Giancarlo Esposito, David Morrissey, RZA and Xzibit. This was also the first film to be released by The Weinstein Company in the United States. It is set in Chicago.
Plot
Advertising executive Charles Schine lives with his wife Deanna and their daughter Amy, who suffers from type 1 diabetes, which requires expensive medication.
On a commuter train to work one morning, Charles meets Lucinda Harris, a financial advisor who is also married with a daughter. A mutual attraction develops and the two begin meeting frequently. They soon decide to consummate their affair in a run-down motel. As Lucinda is unzipping Charles pants, they are interrupted by an armed man who beats Charles and brutally rapes Lucinda. Not wanting their spouses to learn of their affair, Charles and Lucinda agree not to report the crime and then go their separate ways.
Days later, the man, who identifies himself as Philippe LaRoche, contacts Charles and threatens to kill his family if he does not pay him $20,000. A month later, LaRoche calls again, this time demanding $100,000. Charles explains his situation to his work colleague Winston, an ex-con who works as a repairman in his building. Winston offers to scare off LaRoche for ten percentage of the payout. Charles embezzles $10,000 from his company and he and Winston plot to get the drop on LaRoche at his specified meeting location. However, LaRoche surprises him, shoots Winston dead and takes the money. Charles disposes of Winston s body and gives a false alibi when questioned by Detective Franklin Church.
Charles later receives a call from LaRoche; he is holding Lucinda hostage and will kill her if he does not deliver the $100,000. Charles takes the money from an account meant for his daughter s medical treatment and makes the payoff to LaRoche and his partner Dexter. Charles then visits Lucinda at work and discovers she is actually called Jane, who worked there briefly as a temp. He goes to Jane s apartment, which is being shown to prospective renters, and finds that Jane s photograph of her supposed daughter is actually a cut-out of a stock picture from a brochure.
Charles tracks Jane down and sees her kissing LaRoche, learning she was in on the scam. He also observes her seducing another unsuspecting businessman, Sam. Charles rents a room at the same motel as before and waits for Jane to go there with Sam. Determined to retrieve his stolen money, Charles knocks LaRoche unconscious outside the hotel room door, disarms him, and reveals to Sam the scheme he has been set up for. Dexter arrives to back up LaRoche and a gunfight ensues; nearly everyone is fatally shot but Charles, who returns to his room and convinces the police he was just a bystander. Before leaving, Charles claims his briefcase and gets back the money.
Later, Charles is suspended from work for the embezzlement and is sentenced to six months of community service, teaching in a prison. During one of his classes, he comes across a notebook containing a story about him written by one of the students. Charles finds LaRoche, who had survived the gunfight. LaRoche threatens to continue to disrupt Charles life but Charles reveals that he has planned their encounter and then stabs LaRoche to death with a shank.
Charles walks away from the encounter by claiming to Detective Church that LaRoche attacked him and he reacted in self-defence. He returns to his family.
Cast
- Clive Owen as Charles Schine
- Jennifer Aniston as Jane
- Vincent Cassel as Philippe LaRoche
- Melissa George as Deanna Schine
- Giancarlo Esposito as Detective Franklin Church
- RZA as Winston Boyko
- Xzibit as Dexter
- Addison Timlin as Amy Schine
- Tom Conti as Eliot Firth
- Rachael Blake as Susan Davis
- Denis O Hare as Jerry the Lawyer
- Georgina Chapman as Candy
- David Morrissey as Sam Griffin
- David Oyelowo as Patrol Officer
- Danny McCarthy as Correctional Officer Hank
- Ortis Deley as Cop
- Richard Leaf as Night Clerk Ray
- Catherine McCord as Avery Price Receptionist
Reception
Box office
Derailed opened in 2,443 theaters for an opening weekend gross of $12,211,986. The film made a domestic gross of $36,024,076 and an international gross of $21,455,000, giving it a worldwide gross of $57,479,076.
Critical response
Derailed received mainly negative reviews and has a rotten score of 21% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 126 reviews, with an average rating of 4.7/10. The critical consensus states With miscast stars, a ludicrous plot and an obvious twist, Derailed embodies its name all too aptly. The film also has a score of 40 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 34 critics indicating mixed or average reviews.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times awarded the film two and a half out of four stars and believed that Owen s and Aniston s performances were intriguing. Ebert said, Clive Owen was my candidate for James Bond, and can play hard and heartless rotters (see Closer), but here he is quiet and sad, with a sort of passivity. He lets his face relax into acceptance of his own bad fortune. Jennifer Aniston does that interesting thing of not being a stereotyped sexpot but being irresistibly intriguing. That works with a man like Charles. Happily married, in debt, worried about his daughter and his job, he would be impervious to a sexy slut.
Soundtrack
| Derailed OST | ||||
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| Film score by
Ed Shearmur
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| Released | November 8, 2005 | |||
| Genre | Score • Various | |||
| Length | 38:40 | |||
| Label | Wu Music Group | |||
| Ed Shearmur chronology | ||||
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All tracks are written by Ed Shearmur.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Winston s Theme (Orchestral) | 2:18 |
| 2. | Charles Theme (Orchestral) | 1:29 |
| Total length: | 3:47 | |
Additional music by
| No. | Title | Music | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Johnny | Flemming Rasmussen | 4:05 |
| 2. | I Love You | RZA | 3:32 |
| 3. | Sabotage | Hot Will ft. Maurice | 4:02 |
| 4. | 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover | Paul Simon | 4:02 |
| 5. | Really Want None | Freemurder | 3:01 |
| 6. | I m Sorry | Maurice | 3:48 |
| 7. | Better Man | Maurice | 4:06 |
| 8. | My Lovin Is Digi | RZA | 4:11 |
| 9. | Better Man (Guitar Remix) | Maurice | 4:06 |
| Total length: | 36:03 | ||
Remakes
In 2006, Tamil movie starring Jyothika and Sarath Kumar, named Pachaikili Muthucharam was adapted from the book. The film was remade in Hindi as The Train and a Sinhala film adaptation titled Dakina Dakina Mal.
In 2010, the film was remade in Ghana by filmmaker Frank Rajah Arase as Temptation. It stars Majid Michel and Frank Artus
| Year | 2005 |
| ReleaseDate | 2005-11-11 |
| RuntimeMins | 108 |
| RuntimeStr | 1h 48min |
| Plot | When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, the two must turn the tables on him to save their families. |
| Directors | Mikael Håfström |
| Writers | Stuart Beattie, James Siegel |
| Stars | Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassel |
| Produced by | Mark Cooper,Lorenzo di Bonaventura,Jonathan Gordon,Jeremy Steckler,Bob Weinstein,Harvey Weinstein |
| Music by | Edward Shearmur |
| Cinematography by | Peter Biziou |
| Film Editing by | Peter Boyle |
| Casting By | Avy Kaufman |
| Production Design by | Andrew Laws |
| Art Direction by | Mark Raggett |
| Set Decoration by | Daniel B. Clancy,Marina Morris |
| Costume Design by | Natalie Ward |
| Makeup Department | Jean Ann Black,Mary ‘Dugan’ Buono,Chelo,Kay Georgiou,Richard Glass,Carmel Jackson,Dominic Mango,Laura McIntosh,Dorka Nieradzik,Suzi Ostos,Jemma Scott-Knox-Gore,Jenny Sharpe |
| Production Management | Demetra Diamantopoulos,Rachel Neale |
| Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | Helen Allibone,Kwame Amoaku,Scott Bunce,Thomas Coe,Sean Guest,James Andrew Haven,Jessica Laws,Traci M. Lewis,Victor Mathews |
| Art Department | Perry Bell,Warren Browne,Tim Browning,Richard Burnett,Tristan Carlisle-Kitz,David J. Chamerski,Temple Clark,Paul Curren,Laura Dishington,Sally Dray,Robert J. Dugdale,Trevor Dyer,Dave Fisher,Dean Fisher,Gordon Fitzgerald,Colin H. Fraser,Thomas J. Glynn,Wayne Hammond,Kristin Hanson,Jane Harwood,Lee Hedges,Mark Hedges,Craig Jackson,Robert Jackson,Scott Keery,Roxy Konrad,Dougie Lankston,Quentin Matthys,Stephen McGregor,Gwen Murray,Mark Quarrington,Nina Ross,Georgina Shorter,Tony Snook,Adrian Start,Matthew Start,Paul Stewart,Nic Stubbings,Anthony Szuch,Daniel Thompson,Scott Troha,Kate Venner,Howard Weaver,John Whitby |
| Sound Department | Philip Alton,Julie Altus,James Bennett,Tim Cavagin,Felicity Cottrell,Steve Hancock,Larry Hopkins,Jason Johnston,Mark Lafbery,Conor Mackey,Steve Mayer,John Midgley,Nigel Mills,Grahame Peters,Jamie Roden,Blair Scheller,Steve Single,Dean St. John,Jack Stew,Onofre Ortega |
| Special Effects by | Steve Benelisha,Stuart Brisdon,Paul Clancy,Ryan Evans,Mark Haddenham,David G. Hansen,Frank Krenmuller,Tez Palmer,Don Parsons,John Rigden,Anne Marie Walters,Nigel Wilkinson |
| Visual Effects by | Kris Anderson,Tamsin Blanchard,Gary J. Brown,Adam Christopher,Richard Collis,Mark Dollery,Lester Dunton,Simon Frame,Peter Hannan,Tom Hocking,Rhodri James,Stephanie Moore,Tom Pegg,Kevin Phelan,Pablo Renedo,Olaf Wendt |
| Stunts | James Grogan,Rick LeFevour,Emma Mac,Glenn Marks |
| Camera and Electrical Department | Paul Barton,Peter Bloor,Kevin Boyd,Jaime Dawkins,Paul DeMarte,Robert Dibble,Kate Filby,Fred Folmer,Zachary Gannaway,Chris Gilbertson,Michael Hannan,Peter Hannan,Charles S. Hodes,Demetri Jagger,Ed Jones,Bill Kaye,Aaron Keating,George Kohut,Peter Kuttner,Matthew LeCrone,Chaz Lyon,Donna McLain,David Morenz,David Morgan,Chris Mulsoff,Neil Munro,Luke Myslowski,Peter Myslowski,William R. Nielsen Jr.,Gary Nolan,Kelly Paul,Steve Petrie,Stephanie Power,Miles Proudfoot,John S. Robertson,James F. Roorda,Dan Schroer,Christy Taddeo,Colin Townsend,Oliver Upton,Dan Urbain,Darren Vincent,Zoe Whittaker,Iwan Williams,Joe Carpita,Peter Morenz |
| Casting Department | Abigail Barbier,Louis Elman,Enero,Damian Fazio,Damian Fazio,Matthew Hannigan,Carrie Hilton,Tamara-Lee Notcutt,Joan Philo,Bizhan Shahpar,Micheal J. Shaw,Paulette Victor-Lifton |
| Costume and Wardrobe Department | Liza Bracey,Karan Doherty,Nadia Dunn-Hill,Amber Jordyn,Heather Pollock,Michael Weldon |
| Editorial Department | Phil Ashton,William Blunden,Andrew Dearnley,Steve Farman,Hannah Godwin,Jennifer Hampson,Steve Maguire,Aidan Stanford,Jayme Wing,Alex Panton,Jonathan Smiles |
| Location Management | Simon Cullen,Raul Esparza III,Martin L. Hudson,Martin Joy,Mark Mamalakis,Patrick Muldoon,David Pinnington,Maria C. Roxas,David Seaton |
| Music Department | Bruce Babcock,Andy Brown,Bryan Carrigan,Peter Cobbin,Alexandre Desplat,Christopher Elly,Chris Fogel,James Fogel,Vic Fraser,Christian Howes,Daryl B. Kell,Andre LaFosse,Carmine Lauri,The London Metropolitan Orchestra,Steve Mair,Gerard McCann,Stephen McLaughlin,Edward Shearmur,Randy Spendlove,Allen Walley,London Symphony Orchestra |
| Script and Continuity Department | Susanna Lenton |
| Transportation Department | Gary Birmingham,Michael R. Cairo,Paul Hutchinson,Lee Isgar,Joe Vanis |
| Additional Crew | Assata Amoaku,Helen Appleby,Yusefu Bangura,Cassandra Barbour,Guy Barker,Siobhan Barnett,Evie Bergson,Senica Billingsley,Nicholas Carranza,Deborah Chung,Mel Churcher,Colleen Conroy,Guy Cowan,Aimee Denaro,Kelly Dennis,Judy Dickerson,Sara Ellingen,Dan Fischer,Linda Gamble,Anne Marie Gormley,Jacqui Green,Wade Hagen,Clayton Hauck,Nick Jeffries,Veronica Jones,Antonia Kalmacoff,Vernice Klier,Ross L. Kulma,Amanda Lensing,Mark R. Lindsay,John Maloney,Carolyn Mcguinness,Jake Myers,Lesley Neufeld,Tom Nicoll,Sara Nudelman,Margaret J. Orlando,Vanraaj Padhaal,Geraldine Patten,Diane Pitblado,Stefan Rand,Jason Richert,Daniel Rucci,Paul Ruffolo,Edgar Sandoval,Christopher Scott,Laura Sevier,Heather Sharpe,Sally Jo Sousa,Bertie Spiegelberg,Jane Steele,Adele Steward,Lucy Thomas,Gemma Todd Smithers,Olaf Wendt,Stuart Wolf,Wil Wright,Kenneth Yoder,Samantha Kolker,Linda Pianigiani,Jennifer Wachtell |
| Genres | Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Companies | Di Bonaventura Pictures, Miramax, Patalex V Productions Limited |
| Countries | USA, UK |
| Languages | English, French |
| ContentRating | R |
| ImDbRating | 6.6 |
| ImDbRatingVotes | 73993 |
| MetacriticRating | 40 |
| Keywords | sex scene,false identity,abuse,beating,disguise |