The Disappearance of Alice Creed

Two men - one in his twenties, the other nearer forty, both intensely focused on the task at hand - line the inside of a transit van with plastic. Shopping, they buy a drill, a mattress and other supplies. In a small flat they assemble a bed for the mattress and staple foam insulation and board to the walls and windows of a bedroom. Then, their meticulous preparations complete, they kidnap a young woman. They drag her from the street into the back of the van and, with a bag over her head and ball gag in her mouth, take her back to the flat, tying her to the bed in the room they have converted into a prison cell.

The kidnappers are Danny (Martin Compston) and Vic (Eddie Marsan), two ex-cons planning to make a mint on the ransom for the young woman. The younger, nervier of the two, Danny defers to the more experienced Vic, who acts with a steely conviction. Their hostage is Alice Creed (Gemma Arterton), daughter of a rich businessman, chosen by Vic and Danny as their passport to a better life. Terrified and immobile at first, it soon becomes clear that Alice isn’t about to let her captors use her as capital without a fight. As determined to escape as Vic and Danny are to succeed, Alice enters into a battle of wills which strains the already fractious relationship between the two men. As the deadline for the exchange draws nearer, all three are brought close to breaking point, with Vic and Danny’s foolproof plan descending into a desperate struggle for survival.

A taut, emotionally intense thriller, the debut feature from writer-director J Blakeson eschews genre convention, generating tension from the sexual and psychological ties that bind captive to captors. Produced by Adrian Sturges (The Escapist), the film stars Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace, Clash of the Titans, Prince of Persia), Eddie Marsan (Happy-Go-Lucky, Sherlock Holmes) and Martin Compston (Sweet Sixteen, Red Road).

Genre(s) : Crime,Thriller

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(original title) - The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Australia - The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Brazil - O Desaparecimento de Alice Creed
Bulgaria - Изчезването на Алис Крийд(Bulgarian)
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France - La disparition d'Alice Creed
Germany - Spurlos - Die Entführung der Alice Creed
Greece - Agoniodis apagogi
Greece - Αγωνιώδης απαγωγή
Hungary - Alice Creed eltűnése
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India - The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Indonesia - The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Israel - Eifo Alice?
Italy - La scomparsa di Alice Creed
Japan - アリス・クリードの失踪
Lithuania - Elis Kryd dingimas
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Poland - Uprowadzona Alice Creed
Russia - Исчезновение Элис Крид
Serbia - Нестанак Алис Крид/Nestanak Alis Krid
Singapore - The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Spain - La desaparición de Alice Creed
Ukraine - Зникнення Еліс Крід
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United States - The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Vietnam - Vụ Bắt Cóc Alice Creed

Actors :
Martin Compston Danny
Eddie Marsan Vic
Gemma Arterton Alice Creed