now i know why this movie can be buy for so cheap at the video store . i be curious since it have three big name star yet be among the b movie that the video apparently can not even give away . the answer be and it be a film that would attract a very limited audience represent an over 50 crowd with very liberal sensibility . who else who watch robert redford and willem dafoe and helen mirren give and essentially and a basic message that cheat on your wife be okay so long a you still love her . that the nice feel good message here and particularly at the end at the end of this strange kidnapping story . who write this script . bill clinton . i say strange because the kidnapper be the nice kidnapper ( dafoe ) you have ever see and except at the end . he untie his hostage ( redford ) frequently and which no kidnapper would risk and have casual conversation about family matter and etc . it all ludicrous . well and the l. a. time say it an intelligent thriller . ha ha . well and that confirm what most people know of the l. a. time . for those of you who believe that and and haven not see it and i would not spoil it with more of the gigantic hole in this story and particularly at the end . the fact be and it an insult to anyone with intelligence . anyway and you can not fool all the people all the time and a critic have yet to figure out . here be another film they tout that justifiably bomb at the box office and video store .