The Disappearance of Alice Creed
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"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,
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.
Low budget and intense, this is already
being touted as the role for Arterton to be seen as something other
than "big budget movie eye candy".
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