Monday, 7 December 2009

Thriller film plot

  • Whilst the wife and husband are on a night out at the local restaurant, a young girl, Jenny Anderson, is left to babysit their child at the family home.
  • She receives a suspicious call during the evening from an unknown male, which abruptly ends when mentioning she is simply the babysitter. Despite our opening scene suggesting it is in fact Jenny, the babysitter in danger, it is in fact the use of a red herring and she is not a significant character in the plot at all.
  • Meanwhile, at the restaurant the woman goes to the toilet and dissapears without a trace. The husband becomes increasingly worried by the length of time she has been gone.
  • He asks their waiter if they have any idea of his wife's whereabouts, to be informed she never entered the restaurant with him. The husband struggles to prove his sanity to the disbelieving staff and all evidence suggests she was in fact never there with him, such as only one meal being delivered to their table.
  • On visiting the restroom, his wife was in fact caught up in a gang's scheme and abducted. The plan had been organised by a previous business partner of the man's that he got into a lot of debt with and was unable to pay back. He was using his wife as a ransom and had paid the staff at the restaurant to assist him in covering up the incident.
  • The whole truth behind her dissapearance is not discovered until the end of the film, although a number of short flashbacks are shown throughout, giving the audience clues.
  • The man's sanity is also tested by a number of other happenings such as the removal of all photos including his wife in their family home. This makes him doubt she was ever in existance at all.
  • Towards the end of the film, he manages to piece the puzzle pieces together of the events that night, after speaking to the babysitter about the strange phone call and being tipped off by an old friend.
  • He pays a visit to the ex business partner who denies any involvement in the goings on. He then holds him hostage and issues him with an ultimatum, "Tell me where my wife is or die". The man finally cracks and tells all about his scheme. Despite this, the husband goes ahead and kills him anyway out of anger.
  • He goes to where his wife is being held, and after getting past a number of other men first, releases her and the family are re-united.

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