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U.S. government agent Scott is assigned to rescue the daughter of a high-ranking government official. As willing as he is to bend the rules to get things done, though, Scott is shocked to find that others are willing to go even further to protect a political career.
2004 · Directed by David Mamet · 102 min · Mystery · Action · Drama · Thriller · Crime · Screenplay in the scene database · 12 frames
Tagline
She's missing.
Plot
Robert Scott is a former United States Marine Corps Force Recon master gunnery sergeant, acting as a selection cadre member for Delta Force. While observing an exercise designed to evaluate Delta candidates, Scott meets a recruit, Curtis, as well as Sergeant Jacqueline Black, a knife fighting instructor.
Scott is drawn into a clandestine operation to find Laura Newton, the President's daughter, who is missing. He and Curtis go to the beach house of one of Laura's professors, with whom she is said to have a relationship. They find neither person there but find two unidentified men who react aggressively, leading Curtis, who has taken up position outside with a sniper's rifle, to shoot one of the men. Scott quickly kills the other. An earlier lead takes them to a bar where girls are recruited as prostitutes, and Scott's team follows a middleman from the bar to a brothel that funnels some of these girls to an international sex slavery ring. The madam gives them a contact number leading to a pay phone.
Calls placed to the pay phone are traced to Tariq Asani, a Lebanese national currently in federal prison. They plan to intercept Asani during a prisoner transport for medical treatment and gain information from him about the sex trafficking operation.
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Crew
- Screenplay: David Mamet
- Cinematography: Juan Ruiz Anchía
- Edited by: Barbara Tulliver
- Music: Mark Isham
- Production design: Gemma Jackson
- Produced by: David Bergstein, Moshe Diamant, Art Linson, Elie Samaha
Cast
- Val Kilmer as Scott
- Derek Luke as Curtis
- William H. Macy as Stoddard
- Tia Texada as Jackie Black
- Ed O'Neill as Burch
- Kristen Bell as Laura Newton
- Johnny Messner as Grace
- Clark Gregg as Miller
- Lionel Mark Smith as Colonel Blane
- Aaron Stanford as Michael Blake
Production
- Country: Germany, United States of America
- Language: English, Russian, Swedish
- Studios: Franchise Pictures, ApolloMedia, Signature Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures
- Budget: $19,250,000
- Box office: $8,112,712
- Themes: politics, secret agent, dubai, illegal prostitution
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