When a security official interrupts the heist, things turn violent and Laure hits the road with the diamonds. She thinks she's double-crossed the others, but another encounter with Racine ends up with her being thrown down into an atrium where she's knocked unconscious. An older couple who's followed her then mistakes her for their grieving daughter, Lily, who's recently lost her husband and child.
Laure then decides to adopt that woman's identity and head for America when she meets Watts (PETER COYOTE), a sympathetic American government worker. She thinks she's made a clean getaway, but seven years later, she returns as Watt's wife when he's made the American Ambassador to France.
It's then and there that former paparazzo Nicolas Bardo (ANTONIO BANDERAS) is assigned to get photos of the little seen wife. His actions eventually involve Serra (THIERRY FREMONT), a local French police inspector, Leonard Shiff (GREGG HENRY), head of Watts' security, and Black Tie and Racine who still want their diamonds.
From that point on, Laure/Lily sets an elaborate plan into motion that she hopes will take care of her various problems and predicaments.
Violence includes several violent and bloody deaths (via shootings, two men being impaled and a woman being run over a truck), while non-lethal violence includes other shootings, fighting and various characters roughing up others (including men doing that to a woman). Some of those scenes and others (including an attempted Russian roulette style suicide attempt) may also be disturbing and/or suspenseful to viewers.
Various characters have bad attitudes, some tense family material is present as is some imitative behavior, while various characters smoke and some liquor is present. Should you still be concerned about the film's appropriateness for yourself or anyone else in your home, you may want to look more closely at our detailed listings for more specific information regarding the film's content.
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(2002) (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Antonio Banderas) (R)
Alcohol/
DrugsBlood/Gore
Disrespectful/
Bad AttitudeFrightening/
Tense ScenesGuns/
Weapons
Mild
Heavy
Extreme
Heavy
Heavy
Imitative
BehaviorJump
ScenesMusic
(Scary/Tense)Music
(Inappropriate)Profanity
Mild
None
Extreme
None
Extreme
Sex/
NuditySmoking
Tense Family
ScenesTopics To
Talk AboutViolence
Extreme
Heavy
Moderate
Moderate
Extreme
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Reviewed October 31, 2002 / Posted November 6, 2002
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