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Release Date
• USA: Feb 27, 2004
• UK: 9 Jul 2004
DVD Release Date
• R1: Aug 31, 2004
• R2: 4 Oct 2004
Budget $50,000,000
BoxOffice: $25.0M
Official Website:
Twisted Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for violence, language and sexuality.
Running Time
1 hour, 37 minutes
Country USA, Germany
Production Companies
Paramount Pictures, Blackout Productions Inc., Intertainment AG, Kopelson Entertainment
Studio Intertainment AG, Kopelson Entertainment, Paramount
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• Twisted (2004)
• Blackout (2002)
• The Blackout Murders
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Drama, Murder, Suspense, Detectives, Prison, Police, Serial Killer
Tagline: Every murder has a mark.
Plot: Against the moody, fog-laden backdrop of the San Francisco waterfront, police detective Jessica Shephard (Ashley Judd) becomes embroiled in a darkly personal hunt for a serial killer in this Hitchcockian psychological thriller directed by Philip Kaufman (THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING, QUILLS). Jessica, a San Francisco street cop, has been appointed detective by Police Commissioner John Mills (Samuel L. Jackson), her surrogate father and mentor. Together with her new partner Mike Delmarco (Andy Garcia), she goes after her first assignment, a murder, and is ready for anything until she realizes that the corpse is a man she once slept with. What seems like a bizarre coincidence becomes all too suspicious when the next murder victim is also an acquaintance of the police detective--who is also a blackout drinker with an appetite for anonymous, rough sex. Nightly she returns home, drinks a glass of red wine, and awakens to the news of another victim. Haunted by her own family tragedy (her father went on an insane killing spree and killed her own mother and himself), Jessica begins to doubt her own sanity and suspect herself to be the
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Routine police thriller is done in by unlikely characters and preposterous plot twists.--Kirk Honeycutt (Hollywod Reporter)
This latest suspense thriller is, unfortunately, neither suspenseful nor thrilling. Instead, Twisted unravels into a predictable tale infused with so many red herrings that the only thing it inspires is incredulity.  --Guylaine Cadorette (Hollywood.com)
This murder mystery about a female cop whose one-night stands keep getting murdered would be totally unwatchable if it weren't for Ashley Judd.--Charles Taylor (Salon)
What should be a tense thriller never emerges, as the film plods along never allowing any suspense to build. D--Gareth Von Kallenbach (Lee's Movie Info)
Judd and Garcia do the best they can with the material but Jackson is woefully underused in a story that seems better suited for a movie of the week. It is a shame that an interesting premise such as this is wasted, as Twisted is a whodunit that will leave you saying who cares. 2/10--Gareth Von Kallenbach (Movie-Vault.com)
The capable cast is so handicapped by the material that even they are unable to elevate this mess beyond the typical, standard police fare. You would also think that setting the film in San Francisco would at minimum give it an eerie feel, but we spend too much time in closed spaces to really see the bigger picture. Twisted is ultimately one of the least satisfying thrillers in years.  --David Levine (FilmCritic.com)
Twisted is so awful that it's hard to imagine even director Philip Kaufman watching it without rolling his eyes a few times. It's that rare film that doesn't work on any level, from the acting to the cinematography to the story, and makes one wonder exactly what screenwriter Sarah Thorpe was thinking when she wrote it. --David Nusair (Reel Film Reviews)
The movie's interesting premise gives way to an unsatisfying ending, emulating the one-night stand theme in the movie. It's just a little bit of fun, but nothing you should get attached to.  --Brian Gallagher (MovieWeb)
I wasn't expecting much from this film and that's exactly what I got: not much. I got a few laughs though, as well as plenty of eye-candy from the gorgeous Ashley Judd and the fat-faced Andy Garcia, but other than that, you might as well have called thisfilm "Generic Thriller with Obvious Plot Turns and a Lame Ending" instead of the even more generic, TWISTED. 4/10--'JoBlo' (JoBlo.com)
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Pulp Fiction, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones |
 | Andy Garcia
Ocean's Eleven, The Untouchables, Ocean's Twelve |
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The film isn’t a waste of time but it could have been so much more. Slater going coo-coo is groovy to watch and I’m happy I saw the film. Unfortunately, I will probably forget it by the time I finish this review.  --'The Arrow' (Arrow)
It begins pretty, and ends up ugly. It begins with the promise of poetry and ends in the absolute assurance of cliche.--Mick LaSalle (San Francisco Chronicle)
...while it may seem like a routine thriller, it's also a distinctively Kaufman-esque achievement. Who else could have made a film that opens at Tosca's and includes a stop at Red's Java House?  --Jeffrey M. Anderson (San Francisco Examiner)
The new serial killer/sex thriller “Twisted” recalls a day when Joe Eszterhas ruled the screenplay world. With its convoluted plotting, awful performances, and puzzler ending, “Twisted” had a clear shot at becoming a treasured guilty pleasure, but instead it’s just an old-fashioned bad time at the movies. D---Brian Orndorf (FilmJerk.com)
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