The Watcher (2000)

The Watcher (2000)




Synopsis

A detective is urged on by the lunatic he's trying to put behind bars in this crime thriller. Joel Campbell (James Spader) is a police detective who has recently relocated to Chicago after spending eight frustrating years trying to track down a vicious serial killer who has been terrorizing Los Angeles. However, the slayer, David Allen Griffin (Keanu Reeves), doesn't want the game of cat and mouse to end; even though he previously put his murderous activities on hold, Griffin has started murdering young women again -- and is sending clues to Campbell, mailing him photos of his intended victims and urging Campbell to save them while he still can. Also starring Marisa Tomei, Ernie Hudson, and Chris Ellis, The Watcher was directed by Joe Charbanic. It marked Charbanic's first feature project after directing videos for a number of alternative rock groups, including Soul Coughing, Sonic Youth, and Reeves' band, Dogstar. The film was produced under the title Driven.

What Critics Say


We can just imagine the pitch meeting for this one. "It's 'Silence of the Lambs' meets 'Chuck and Buck.' "

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    HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 11, 2000 -- Keanu Reeves probably wishes he had skipped playing street hockey that fateful day. It was the day that director Joe Charbanic approached Reeves and asked him to read a script for a little serial killer flick, offering him a small role as the murderer.

    Reeves took the part, thinking it was going to be a little boutique film, but before he knew it, things were mushrooming out of control and "The Watcher" ballooned into a relatively big-budget studio movie. And his little role kept getting bigger and bigger.

    Inside.com reports today that Reeves ain't no big fan of "The Watcher," largely because his little cameo morphed into a something altogether bigger. "The script did change," director Charbanic told the Web site. "It got bigger than [Reeves] wanted. He wanted it to be a little boutique film."

    The report says that, at one point, Reeve



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