The Flock (film)

The Flock is a 2007 American thriller film directed by Andrew Lau, the co-director of the Infernal Affairs trilogy. The film, which marks his first English-language film, stars Richard Gere and Claire Danes.

The Flock
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Directed byAndrew Lau
Produced byPhilippe Martinez
Elie Samaha
Jenette Kahn
Adam Richman
Andrew Lau
Written byHans Bauer
Craig Mitchell
StarringRichard Gere
Claire Danes
KaDee Strickland
Avril Lavigne
Music byGuy Farley
CinematographyEnrique Chediak
Edited byMartin Hunter
Distributed byThe Weinstein Company
Release date
  • 22 November 2007 (2007-11-22)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
BudgetUS$35 million[1]
Box office$7,119,846

Synopsis

A hyper-vigilant agent of the Department of Public Safety Erroll Babbage (Richard Gere) checks on registered sex offenders. Burnt out after a long career, he has become frustrated with the system of sex offender monitoring. With little faith in humanity left he takes on one last job to find a missing girl (Kristina Sisco).

He is three weeks away from taking early retirement and his final job is to train his young female replacement Allison Lowry (Claire Danes). After being left a newspaper with his characteristic headline circling, he is convinced the case of kidnapping is connected to a paroled sex offender he's monitoring and he takes it upon himself to find the victim at all costs.

Errol is eventually forced to leave the department early due to his relentless interrogation of sexual offenders and occasional vigilante actions against them. His efforts center on Viola (KaDee Strickland), a woman who has a history of being abused but is known to have a connection to another culprit that Errol suspects to have taken the girl. Together with his partner they figure out that Viola has become an abuser herself and is the ringleader in a kidnapping and torture syndicate. They track her down to a deserted scrap heap where they find the latest kidnapped girl as well as corpses of previous victims. The movie ends with Viola being brought to book after Errol considers killing her. Errol and Allison realize that in fighting the monsters involved in sexual offenses, they must not become monsters themselves.

Cast

Release

The film was released theatrically in several countries throughout the world in late 2007, early 2008, yet in the United States it premiered April 11, 2008 at the Palm Beach International Film Festival, before being released on DVD on May 20, 2008 by Genius Products.[2][3]

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References
  1. The Flock – Box office / business. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved August 21, 2008.
  2. The Flock – Release dates. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved August 21, 2008.
  3. The Flock – Company credits. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved August 21, 2008.
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