Wayne and Eileen Hayes live the American Dream. Together they've raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. But there have been sacrifices along the way. When Wayne is kidnapped by an ordinary man, Arnold Mack, and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple's world is turned inside out. Eileen finds her home full of FBI agents, their life under scrutiny. While Wayne is engaged in the negotiation of his lifetime, Eileen works frantically with the FBI to secure his release. The terrifying ordeal causes Wayne and Eileen to reassess their marriage and ... come to a deeper sense of their commitment to each other. With each passing hour, the need and desire for Wayne to return home safely becomes ever more urgent.Read moreLess
The Clearing is an intelligent thriller that adroitly explores a longtime marriage through the remorseless workings of the suspense genre, in which Pieter Jan Brugge's acutely observant direction and Justin Haythe's thoughtful script allow Robert Redford, Helen Mirren and Willem Dafoe to give performances that rank among their best. A superior, thoroughly adult film, The Clearing was inspired by an incident that occurred in Brugge's native Holland.
Redford's Wayne Hayes and Mirren's Eileen Hayes clearly have an enduring respect and affection, if not passion, for each other, yet between them there's also a certain distance. They live in a large, tasteful stone house in ...
Why did this dissapear?
Top cast,fine script,exellent plot and gripping throughout - so why did this one dissapear off the radar almost as soon as it was released? - a real shame because its very good indeed....
Robert Redford plays Wayne a succesful self made businessman happily married to Eileen(Helen Mirren) whose lives are about to be irrepareably changed by the intervention of Arnold(Willem Fafoe) - Wayne has breakfast one morning,gets into his car,is greeted by Arnold whom he seems to remember....and dissapears.....
Eillen is at first annoyed as her husband misses a dinner party then increasily worried - she calls in the FBI and they wait for the inevitabe demand - on a parallel time line we see...
Clearing, The
A virtual masterclass in the craft of acting... mesmerising to watch
A film that ends with a resounding whimper, Pieter Jan Brugge's The Clearing expends a great deal of energy creating an atmosphere that leads nowhere. An expertly judged set-up will hook you into a very tense situation, making the final disappointment all the more infuriating. Written by newcomer Justin Haythe, it has the feel of a studio film from the 1970s - a character-driven thriller starring actors rather than stars - but it never finds fifth gear.
It begins as quietly as it ends, in a leafy American suburb where wealthy car-rental entrepreneur Wayne Hayes (Redford) - "the man Hertz and Avis are afraid of" - lives with his wife Eileen (Mirren). As he sets o...
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