A bloodied woman staggers mute and dazed into the emergency room at the Dempsy Medical Center. After treatment for shock and hysteria, Brenda Martin recounts to Dempsy police detective Lorenzo Council a horrific tale of being carjacked on the isolated strip of undeveloped land that divides Dempsy's urban housing projects from the blue collar town of Gannon, where she lives. She claims she was forced out of her car by a black man, but during the interrogation Council senses he's not getting the whole story. Only after hours of questioning does Brenda finally break down and confess that her four-year-old son, Cody, was asleep in the back seat of the stolen car. Led by activist Karen Collucci, members of the communities of Dempsy and Gannon unite in a search for the missing child, but the criminal investigation into the alleged kidnapping by a suspect who is presumed to be a local from the projects soon ignites long-simmering racial tensions between the two towns.
Production Revolution Studios; Scott Rudin Productions;
Cast Names Samuel L. Jackson; Julianne Moore; Edie Falco; Ron Eldard; William Forsythe; Aunjanue Ellis; Anthony Mackie; LaTanya Richardson; Clarke Peters; Peter Friedman; Domenick Lombardozzi; Aasif Mandvi; Philip Bosco; Fly Williams III; Portia; Haneefah Wood; Dorian Missick; Joe Forbrich; Donna Cutugno; Genevieve Hudson-Price; Calvin Hart; Marlon Sherman; Bill Walsh; Patricia Mauceri; Richard Price; Catrina Ganey; Liza Colón-Zayas; Colman Domingo; Teodorina Bello; D.C. Benny; Maduka Steady; Jason Furlani; Chance Kelly; Danielle Carter; Brandon Bennett; Ira Hawkins; Sharon Washington; Ernestine Jackson; Santiago Socorro; Cheryl Wills;
Box Office USD 12,512,886
Release Date 2006-02-17
Genres Crime; Drama; Mystery; Thriller;
MPAA Rating [?] Rated R for language and some violent content.