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Eagle Eye
Jerry Shaw and Rachel Holloman are two strangers whose lives are suddenly thrown into turmoil by a mysterious woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, the unseen caller uses everyday technology to control their actions and push them into increasing danger. As events escalate, Jerry and Rachel become the country's most-wanted fugitives and must figure out what is happening to them.
2008 · Directed by D.J. Caruso · 118 min · Mystery · Thriller · Action · Screenplay in the scene database · 10 frames
Tagline
If you want to live, you will obey.
Plot
Stanford University dropout Jerry Shaw learns that his identical twin brother Ethan, an officer in the U.S. Air Force, has been killed in a car crash. Following the funeral, he is surprised to find a large sum of money in his bank account and his apartment filled with firearms and bomb-making materials.
Jerry receives a phone call from a woman who warns that the FBI is about to arrest him and he needs to run. Disbelieving the voice, he is caught by the FBI and interrogated by Supervising Agent Tom Morgan. While Morgan confers with Air Force OSI Special Agent Zoe Perez, the woman on the phone arranges for Jerry's escape and directs him to Rachel Holloman, a single mother. The woman on the phone is coercing Rachel by threatening her son Sam, who is aboard the Capitol Limited en route to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., with his school band.
The woman on the phone helps the two avoid law enforcement by controlling networked devices including traffic lights, mobile phones, automated cranes, and even power lines. Meanwhile, the caller redirects a crystalline explosive to a gemcutter, who cuts it and fixes it into a necklace. Another man steals Sam's trumpet in Chicago and fits the crystal's sonic trigger into the tubing before forwarding it to Sam in Washington. Agent Perez is summoned by Secretary of Defense George Callister to be read into Ethan's job at the Pentagon. Ethan monitored the Department of Defense's top-secret intelligence-gathering supercomputer, the Autonomous Reconnaissance Intelligence Integration Analyst (ARIIA; /ɑːriːə/).
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Crew
- Screenplay: John Glenn, Travis Wright, Dan McDermott, Hillary Seitz
- Cinematography: Dariusz Wolski
- Edited by: Jim Page
- Music: Brian Tyler
- Production design: Thomas E. Sanders
- Produced by: Patrick Crowley, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci
Cast
- Shia LaBeouf as Jerry Shaw
- Michelle Monaghan as Rachel Holloman
- Rosario Dawson as Zoe Perez
- Michael Chiklis as Defense Secretary Callister
- Anthony Mackie as William Bowman
- Ethan Embry as Toby Grant
- Billy Bob Thornton as Thomas Morgan
- Anthony Azizi as Ranim Khalid
- Cameron Boyce as Sam Holloman
- Lynn Cohen as Mrs. Wierzbowski
Production
- Country: Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: KMP Film Invest, K/O Paper Products, DreamWorks Pictures, Goldcrest Pictures
- Budget: $80,000,000
- Box office: $178,800,000
- Themes: artificial intelligence (a.i.), washington dc, usa, technology, hostage, secret identity, fbi, pentagon, twin brother, terrorism, human vs computer
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