Synopsis
Parole officer Jack Mabry has only a few weeks left before retirement and wishes to finish out the cases he's been assigned. One such case is that of Gerald 'Stone' Creeson, a convicted arsonist who is up for parole. Jack is initially reluctant to indulge Stone in the coarse banter he wishes to pursue and feels little sympathy for the prisoner's pleads for an early release. Seeing little hope in convincing Jack himself, Stone arranges for his wife to seduce the officer, but motives and intentions steadily blur amidst the passions and buried secrets of the corrupted players in this deadly game of deception.
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Cast
- Robert De NiroJack
- Edward NortonStone
- Milla JovovichLucetta
- Frances ConroyMadylyn
- Enver GjokajYoung Jack
- Pepper BinkleyYoung Madylyn
- Sandra Love AldridgeMiss Dickerson
- Greg TrzaskomaGuard Peters
- Rachel LoiselleCandace
- Kylie TarnopolYoung Candace
Recommandations
- 80
Time Out
All ye searching for Primal Fear redux, abandon hope. The character-driven drama he (Curran) offers viewers instead is something far more complex, cracked and unique for an American movie boasting big-name stars: an unblinking glare into the abyss. - 75
Chicago Tribune
Genuinely odd in its mixture of bluntness and indirection, screenwriter Angus MacLachlan's study in biblical temptation is saved from its own heavy-handedness by a fine quartet of actors. - 70
New York Daily News
Norton, too, keeps us guessing, though his pseudo-tough-guy line readings (and cornrowed hair) are initially distracting. But his scenes with De Niro -- who fills every twitch or glance with Jack's long-buried guilt -- are the guts of the movie. - 67
The A.V. Club
At its best, the film works as a morally freighted film noir, with Jovovich particularly good as a breathy femme fatale who seduces De Niro with a mere change in inflection. - 60
Boxoffice Magazine
Stone is highly charged and vibrant, and pits Edward Norton against Robert De Niro for two utterly electrifying performances. - 50
Variety
Though nearly sabotaged by the ridiculous sexual subplot at its center, this soul-searching drama works best at the character level, couching insights about sin and forgiveness under the guise of conventional genre entertainment. - 50
L.A. Weekly
At odds with its own lofty and base instincts, Stone ultimately channels neither compellingly. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
Milla Jovovich slinks cartoonishly as Stone's seductive wife, on a mission to compromise the lawman. Lordy.
