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Format: VHS
Feb 1993
Rated R
Recording Mode: (unknown)
105 min. |
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Movie Description
A harrowing and compellingly constructed chamber drama of police brutality and mental anguish, THE OFFENCE takes director Sidney Lumet's obsession with the policeman's conflicted position as his brother's keeper into the realms of the psychological thriller. Sean Connery is devastatingly desperate as Officer Johnson, a 20-year veteran of the police force on the trail of a serial child molester. As the film begins, Lumet immediately plunges the viewer into a climax of crisis and violence with Johnson at the center. With a shuffling and halting narrative, the events leading to Johnson's mysterious breakdown unfurl. When a young girl becomes the latest victim of the child molester, Johnson is unhinged after he finds the victim, naked and wounded in the marshes on the outskirts of town. Baxter (Ian Bannen), a teetering and dazed man, is picked up wandering in the center of town and becomes Johnson's primary suspect. The interrogation that follows is a swift descent into hell, as the torture of 20 years of police work slowly seeps out of Johnson's fetid soul and turns the questioning into a brutal verbal and physical showdown, seemingly to the death. THE OFFENCE was based on a play by John Hopkins entitled THIS STORY OF YOURS.
Synopsis
Sidney Lumet directed this crime thriller starring Sean Connery as Detective Sergeant Johnson, a British police officer who must face the brutality that exists in his department, and within himself, after he beats a suspect to death.
Film Notes
Filmed on location in England.
This picture was produced as a result of a deal Connery made with United Artists in exchange for reprising his role as James Bond in DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER. United Artists agreed to bankroll two features for Connery, with a budget of less than a million dollars each. The first of these was THE OFFENCE.
All throughout the production period the film was entitled SOMETHING LIKE THE TRUTH--a phrase used several times in the script.
Industry Reviews
"Lumet succeeds in establishing a bleak, claustrophobic atmosphere. And Connery manages to make his character sympathetic..."
Sight and Sound - Ronnie Hackston (11/01/2004)
Quotations
"Nothing I have done can be half as bad as the thoughts in your head. There's nothing I can say that you haven't imagined."--Baxter (Ian Bannen) to Johnson (Sean Connery)
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