The Clearing

Stundtals är det ett väldigt gripande och välberättat drama för att sen blixtra till och bli en rafflande thriller.

...The Clearing has a hell of a cast - Robert Redford as the hostage, Willem Dafoe as the kidnapper, Helen Mirren as the put-upon wife...

This is a carefully delineated tale of a successful couple whose life is changed overnight when embittered failure Dafoe kidnaps self-made success Redford as he leaves his wife, Mirren, poolside to go to work.

What eventually happens will emerge from the personalities of the characters, not from the requirements of Hollywood endings.

As wealthy, world-weary Pittsburgh businessman Wayne Hayes, Robert Redford is typically low-key. Or at least he is until Wayne faces what might be termed an existential crisis, when he is kidnapped by the bitter and forlorn Arnold Mack...