Synopsis

Release Date: 07/02/2004
Rating: R
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Drama , Crime , Thriller
Director: Pieter Jan Brugge
Cast: Robert Redford , Helen Mirren , Willem Dafoe , Alessandro Nivola

Dutch film producer Pieter Jan Brugge makes his directorial debut with the dramatic thriller The Clearing. Affluent executive Wayne Hayes (Robert Redford) and his lovely wife, Eileen (Helen Mirren), live in a beautiful home in Pittsburg. One day, Wayne is kidnapped by disgruntled employee Arnold Mack (Willem Dafoe). He is then held for ransom in a forest. Meanwhile, Eileen is forced to reckon with the FBI agents as they negotiate with the kidnapper. Alessandro Nivola and Melissa Sagemiller star as the two grown Hayes children. Matt Craven plays FBI Agent Ray Fuller. The Clearing premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004.

What Critics Say

After an unbearably slow and deliberately long buildup, director Pieter Jan Brugge's kidnapping thriller The Clearing never delivers a payoff

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