It seems that Sachs' newest patient, Elisabeth Burrows (BRITTANY MURPHY), is a very troubled young woman who's now locked up after attacking an orderly. With a history of misdiagnoses and multiple hospitalizations, no one has been able to crack Elisabeth's case and Louis is worried that if he and Nathan can't do so soon, the girl will be sent away forever.
Nathan agrees to do what he can, but soon learns that others are interested in Elisabeth, but for different reasons. Waking up Thanksgiving morning, Nathan and Aggie - who's bedridden with a broken leg - discover that Jessie has been kidnapped. It seems that Patrick Koster (SEAN BEAN) and his group of thugs have abducted the girl and threaten to kill her if Nathan can't extract a specific six-digit number from Elisabeth's tangled psyche that will help them retrieve a valuable jewel they stole a decade earlier.
With a 5 o'clock deadline and instructions not to contact the police since the kidnappers will be watching his and Aggie's every move, Nathan sets out to do what he can. As NYPD detective Sandra Cassidy (JENNIFER ESPOSITO) follows the trail of a homicide that eventually leads her toward the kidnappers, and Jessie tries to befriend some of them, such as Max (CONRAD GOODE), Nathan races against the clock as he tries everything possible to get Elisabeth to give up the number.
Violence is listed as extreme due to various people being wounded or killed both on and off-screen (by gunfire and other means) and some non-lethal fighting. Meanwhile, others are threatened, including a young girl who's kidnapped by some criminals who have extreme cases of bad attitudes. Some of that material, along with other moments, may be tense or unsettling for some viewers, and some of it has moderately bloody/gruesome results.
One character is noted as being mentally ill (although it's never completely clear if she is or is just faking it), and tense family material includes her being traumatized by seeing her father killed when she was just a girl, while a married couple worries about their kidnapped daughter. Beyond that, a few characters smoke.
If you're still concerned about the film and its appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home who may be interested in seeing it, we suggest that you more closely examine our detailed content listings for more specific information about what's present in the film.
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(2001) (Michael Douglas, Brittany Murphy) (R)
Alcohol/
DrugsBlood/Gore
Disrespectful/
Bad AttitudeFrightening/
Tense ScenesGuns/
Weapons
Minor
Moderate
Extreme
Heavy
Extreme
Imitative
BehaviorJump
ScenesMusic
(Scary/Tense)Music
(Inappropriate)Profanity
Mild
Minor
Extreme
None
Extreme
Sex/
NuditySmoking
Tense Family
ScenesTopics To
Talk AboutViolence
Moderate
Minor
Heavy
Mild
Extreme
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Reviewed September 20, 2001 / Posted September 28, 2001
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