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But it was the new President's day, and he had a sermon to give. Bush addressed a citizenry with differences so deep that sometimes "it seems we share a continent but not a country. We do not accept this, and will not allow it," he declared, and issued his...
The film begins as it ends, with Jack Nicholson's Jerry Black wandering a desiccated landscape, mumbling crazily to himself. At first, of course, we do not know why he has reached this demented state. By the end of The Pledge, we do. What lies between is a highly intelligent...
Jerry is a Nevada homicide detective whose life is his job. On the day of his retirement a particularly grisly case--an eight-year-old girl has been sexually abused and murdered--arises. He devotes the last six hours of his career to investigating it. He also makes a pledge...
It's a nice, creepy situation, derived from a novel by Friedrich Durrenmatt and visualized by the director, Sean Penn. But the screenwriters, Jerzy and Mary Olson-Kromolowski, permit Jerry his ordinariness. He really loves Lori. And he is a marvelous surrogate father to her child. It is possible to...
There comes a time, though, when Jerry has to choose between his newfound identity as a happy family man and his older, more firmly established one as a cop who cannot abandon a case. It would be unfair to describe the jeopardy he embraces--except to say that he risks...