It's not unusual for Hollywood to remake European hits. What is unusual is the director of the original getting the chance to helm the new version with an American cast, which is what happened with this film based on an intensely creepy Dutch film of the same name (both directed by George Sluizer). Kiefer Sutherland and Sandra Bullock are on vacation when, while stopped at a crowded rest area, she disappears. He devotes the next several years to discovering what happened to her, ruining his life in the process. When he does get a clue, it leads him to Jeff Bridges,... who plays a bizarre and highly organized individual whose motives are almost as strange as he is. Bridges is spooky, but Sluizer ultimately is undone by Hollywood's demand for a happy ending, which makes this film affecting but far less unsettling than the original. --Marshall Fine [show more]
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play. Originally based on 'The Golden Egg' by Tim Krabbé, this dark thriller follows Jeff Harriman's (Keifer Sutherland) obsession with finding his girlfriend, Diane Shaver (Sandra Bullock), who was abducted three years before whilst waiting at a road stop. Presented with a series of clues to the disappearance by the abductor himself, a psychotic scientist (Jeff Bridges), Jeff retraces his girlfriend's sinister journey. George Sluizer directs this Hollywood remake of his 1988 feature 'Spoorloos'.
Originally based on 'The Golden Egg' by Tim Krabbé, this dark thriller follows Jeff Harriman's (Keifer Sutherland) obsession with finding his girlfriend, Diane Shaver (Sandra Bullock), who was abducted three years before whilst waiting at a road stop. Presented with a series of clues to the disappearance by the abductor himself, a psychotic scientist (Jeff Bridges), Jeff retraces his girlfriend's sinister journey. George Sluizer directs this Hollywood remake of his 1988 feature 'Spoorloos'.
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