Don't Say a Word (2001)

Acting:		Partying:		Girls:
Blood:		Language:		Gore:
Violence:		Humor:		Sexuality:
Torture:		Predictability:		Overall:

When I finally got the chance to see "Don't Say a Word" I was not in the kindest of moods, I had already decided that this was a crappy formula film...however, they got me reeled in because Brittany Murphy and Famke Janssen are both in the film. Needless to say the babe content was making this movie instantly rentable, but not so much likable.

Dr. Nathan R. Conrad (Michael Douglas) is a psychiatrist of some note. Having published a book or two on the subject of adolescent schizophrenia he's been around the cerebral block. It's the evening before Thanksgiving and Nathan is trying is hardest to get home to the family...his daughter Jessie (Skye McCole Bartusiak) and gorgeous but infirmed wife, she has a broken leg with a huge cast on it, Aggie (Famke Janssen). When you live in New York City it's not too easy to get home quickly but when Nathan is intercepted by an urgent phone call form colleague Louis Sachs (Oliver Platt) he ends up at the local institution of insanity instead of at home with the fam. Seems that Louis has his hands full with a young woman, Elisabeth Burrows (Brittany Murphy), who won't speak ...

continue reading...