Tenacious homicide detective Cassie Mayweather and her still-green partner are working a murder case, attempting to profile two malevolently brilliant young men: cold, calculating killers whose dark secrets might explain their crimes.

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Film Cast:

• Cassie Mayweather: Sandra Bullock
• Sam Kennedy: Ben Chaplin
• Richard Haywood: Ryan Gosling
• Justin Pendleton: Michael Pitt
• Lisa Mills: Agnes Bruckner
• Ray Feathers: Chris Penn
• Rod Cody: R. D. Call
• Al Swanson: Tom Verica
• Ms. Elder: Janni Brenn
• Restaurant Manager: John Vickery
• Mr. Chechi: Michael Canavan
• Olivia Lake: Krista Carpenter
• Male Officer in Flashback: Neal Matarazzo
• Lab Technician: Adilah Barnes
• Lawyer: Jim Jansen
• Female Officer in Flashback: Paula Scarpino
• Parole Board Marshall: Brian Stepanek
• Nurse: Sharon Madden
• Fingerprint Technician: John Doolittle
• Criminalist #1 at Ray’s House: Dennis Cockrum
• Criminalist #2 at Ray’s House: Eric Saiet
• Richard’s Mother: Nancy Osborne
• Paramedic: Ralph Seymour
• Justin’s Mother: Christine Healy
• Cop at Richard’s House: Nick Offerman
• Cop at First Crime Scene: Todd Leatherbury

Film Crew:

• Screenplay: Tony Gayton
• Editor: Lee Percy
• Director of Photography: Luciano Tovoli
• Producer: Barbet Schroeder
• Original Music Composer: Clint Mansell
• Location Manager: Julie Duvic
• Associate Editor: Michelle Harrison
• Set Designer: Steve Saklad
• Studio Teacher: Mandy Friedrich
• Stunts: Craig Baxley Jr.
• Chief Lighting Technician: Gary Tandrow
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Charles Gibson
• Unit Publicist: Alex L. Worman
• Executive Producer: Jeffrey Stott
• Dialect Coach: Jerome Butler
• Set Designer: Daniel R. Jennings
• Stunts: Seth Arnett
• Key Makeup Artist: Valli O’Reilly
• Post Production Supervisor: Paul A. Levin
• Post Production Coordinator: Ann Gray
• Construction Foreman: Larry Guy Clause
• Key Grip: Gary C. Beaird Sr.
• Special Effects Coordinator: Bruno Van Zeebroeck
• Costumer: Conan Castro Jr.
• Assistant Property Master: Dwayne Grady
• Pilot: Bruce Benson
• Assistant Editor: Tamara McDonough
• Property Master: Trish Gallaher Glenn
• Assistant Makeup Artist: Kathleen Freeman
• Assistant Set Decoration: Caroline Perzan
• Stunt Double: Donna Evans
• Stunts: Kanin Howell
• Assistant Editor: Misako Shimizu
• Assistant Costume Designer: Maggie Morgan
• Set Designer: James F. Truesdale
• Hairstylist: Medusah
• Executive Producer: Sandra Bullock
• Stunts: Cinda-Lin James
• Assistant Editor: Rebecca Nicolaou
• Costumer: Lorraine Crossman
• Assistant Art Director: John Berger
• Boom Operator: Joseph F. Brennan
• Stunts: Stanton Barrett
• Assistant Art Director: Masako Masuda
• Graphic Designer: Martin Charles
• Construction Coordinator: John R. Elliott
• Costumer: Patia Prouty
• Leadman: Daril Alder
• Producer: Susan Hoffman
• Sound Mixer: Thomas Causey
• Set Designer: Peter Clemens
• Best Boy Electric: Michael J. Bailey
• Key Costumer: Terry Anderson
• Storyboard Artist: Raymond Consing
• Set Designer: Antoinette J. Gordon
• Craft Service: H. Leah Amir
• Pilot: Cliff Fleming
• Craft Service: Chris Winn
• Sound Effects Editor: Wyatt Sprague
• ADR Mixer: Paul Zydel
• Foley Supervisor: Kam Chan
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Tom Fleischman
• Assistant Sound Editor: Heather Gross
• Music Coordinator: Delphine Robertson
• Title Designer: Robert Dawson
• Assistant Sound Editor: Chris Fielder
• ADR Mixer: Charleen Richards-Steeves
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Grant Maxwell
• Sound Effects Editor: Lewis Goldstein
• Supervising Sound Editor: Ron Bochar
• ADR Supervisor: Gina Alfano
• Pilot: Alan D. Purwin
• Foley Artist: Marko Costanzo
• ADR Recordist: David Lucarelli
• Scoring Mixer: Dennis Sands
• Color Timer: Dale E. Grahn
• Title Designer: Simon Cassels
• Apprentice Sound Editor: Cate Montana
• Title Designer: Justin Blampied
• Apprentice Sound Editor: Alexa Zimmerman
• Negative Cutter: Mo Henry
• Production Design: Stuart Wurtzel
• Set Decoration: Hilton Rosemarin
• Music Supervisor: Deva Anderson
• First Assistant Editor: Julie Carr
• Rigging Gaffer: Kevin J. Lang
• Art Direction: Thomas Valentine
• Music Editor: Nic Ratner
• Still Photographer: Suzanne Hanover
• Steadicam Operator: Bob Gorelick
• Stunt Coordinator: Norman Howell
• Costume Design: Carol Oditz
• Costume Supervisor: Linda Matthews
• Casting: Howard Feuer
• Production Supervisor: Cindy Hochman
• Hairstylist: Lona Vigi
• Supervising Sound Editor: Nicholas Renbeck
• Makeup Artist: Pamela S. Westmore
• Art Department Coordinator: Robert Blasi
• Key Hair Stylist: Lori Guidroz
• Production Coordinator: Eileen A. O’Donnell
• Camera Operator: Dustin Blauvelt
• Script Supervisor: Kerry Lyn McKissick
• Unit Production Manager: Steph Benseman

Movie Reviews:

• John Chard: A pact made with relentless fire that requires that, while some live, others die.
• A modern spin on the Leopold and Loeb case, directed by Barbet Schroeder and starring Sandra Bullock as a cop with emotional baggage trying to prove that two high school kids (Ryan Gosling and Michael Pitt) have committed what they think is the perfect murder – just for kicks, allegedly.
• There’s nothing exactly awful about the film, it’s well performed by the principal players, engrossing in narrative, beautifully lensed by Luciano Tovoli and Schroeder layers the production with a suitable feeling of unease. Sadly there’s no psychological depth given the two boys by writer Tony Gayton, which renders the whole motives and means, and the investigation of such, as being a shallow exercise in thriller film making.
• Running at two hours in length doesn’t help matters, because this further irritates that more meat was not written onto Gosling and Pitt’s bones, while it also exposes just how hackneyed and clichéd the picture is. Which when the story should be psychologically profound, marks this out as a frustrating viewing experience. 6/10
• JPV852: Decent crime-thriller that I saw back in 2002 (probably in theaters as I did go on a weekly basis back then) and while never really impressed me, still found it watchable thanks to the performances from a young Ryan Gosling (only his fifth film) and Michael Pitt, and Sandra Bullock was alright as a damaged homicide detective. Plot plays like an episode of Criminal Minds, which isn’t a bad thing to me. Also fun seeing Nick Offerman in a bit role. **3.25/5**
• CinemaSerf: This is yet another role in which Sandra Bullock plays a cop on the outskirts of her team. She is “Cassie”, a woman with intimacy issues who gets teamed up with “Sam” (Ben Chaplin) whom she toys with as if he were a kitten both personally and on their case to investigate what looks like the perfect murder. A distinct lack of clues leads her bloodhound nose to a school where, without the slightest shred of evidence, she alights on the wealthy “Haywood” (Ryan Gosling) to whom she takes an instant dislike. Further ferreting around lead the pair to “Pendleton” (Michael Pitt) who is partial to a little caviar, as was the corpse. Might they all be connected? I’ve rarely seen a potentially decent ensemble cast wasted like this. Bullock just isn’t at the races, her character is frankly really quite boring and the rapport with the out of his depth Chaplin just doesn’t work. There is the glimmer of an homo-erotic relationship between Gosling and the always enigmatic Pitt, but I think maybe that is just because my brain was scrabbling around trying to find a reason to make it through this really disappointing feature. In the end it is a battle of wills, and those who seem to hold all the aces play their hand as if their arms had been amputated; serendipity plays way too big a part in the denouement and at just shy of two hours, I found myself looking out of the window at the seagulls more than I might have liked. Not very good!