Actors: Jack Nicholson, Robin Wright Penn. The distraught mother exacts a pledge that he will find the murderer "upon his soul's salvation". Jerry goes into a store filled with Christmas decorations to ask for directions to Annalise's house. Plot synopsis: “Three friends get the chance to live the college dream when they’re invited to join an elite fraternity—but first they’ll have to survive the hazing from hell. He discovers that this is the third incident in the area in the recent past with victims young, blonde, pretty, and small for their ages. | It had its world premiere at the 2018 Fantasia International Film Festival, and was released in theaters and on VOD on January 11, 2019 through IFC Midnight. The film features an ensemble cast, starring Jack Nicholson, Patricia Clarkson, Aaron Eckhart, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn, Vanessa Redgrave, Sam Shepard, Mickey Rourke, Tom Noonan, Lois Smith and Benicio del Toro. On the night he retires as a Reno, Nevada detective, Jerry Black (Jack Nicholson) pledges to the mother of a murdered girl that he will find the killer. TWITTER 1/11/2019 An … Chrissy alerts Jerry to a meeting that will happen between her and the ‘wizard’ the next day. While the opening scenes were filmed in Reno, Nevada, the rest of the film was shot in Keremeos, Princeton, Hedley, Merritt and Lytton, all in British Columbia. Welcome to rush week! Movie Info Freshmen misfits Ethan, David and Justin desperately try to improve their terminally uncool reputations by pledging prestigious Greek houses on their campus. Rampant speculation about the nature of the … The film ultimately earned $19,733,089 domestically and $9,686,202 internationally for a total of $29,419,291, below its $35 million production budget. However, as they await his arrival, the ‘wizard’ dies in a car accident; hours later, Stan gives up, and tell Lori what happened. On the night he retires as a Reno, Nevada detective, Jerry Black (Jack Nicholson) pledges to the mother of a murdered girl that he will find the killer. Having premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival, Pledge had a successful festival run that included wins for Best Director and Best Editing at the Screamfest Horror Film Festival. Sean Penn 's "The Pledge" begins when it seems his protagonist's career is ending. A Gunfighter's Pledge (the working title was The Pledge) is a 2008 Western television film starring Luke Perry.The film premiered on Hallmark Channel in July 2008. Directed by William Heins, Strathford Hamilton. Jerry doesn't believe the Police arrested the right man. The film is not noir, not a crime film, nor is it a thriller (although it touches upon all this genres); instead, The Pledge is a detective film. Gloria, the brightest and most assertive pledge, wins the heart of Derek 'baby Dick', Victoria's ideal, yet constantly abused boyfriend, whose bitch-addiction is cured by this alternative lover. However, when Tory is caught vandalizing a statue of a WWI Vet, he is ordered to perform community service at a local veteran's home where he comes face to face with those who teach him about the sacrifices that have been made for our country. At South Beach University, a beautiful sorority president takes in a group of unconventional freshman girls seeking acceptance into her house. The celebration is interrupted by the discovery of a murdered child, Ginny Larsen. The Pledge is a 2001 American neo-noir mystery thriller film directed by Sean Penn. A group of college freshmen pledge an exclusive fraternity but soon realize there's more at stake than they could have ever imagined. The Pledge is a 2001 American neo-noir mystery thriller film directed by Sean Penn. It … [5], The Pledge did not perform well at the box office. as seen with Ginny’s, and which Toby could not have possibly committed because he was incarcerated at the time. Maybe he was used to bring in the "nerdy' kids in. A group of college freshmen pledge an exclusive fraternity but soon realize there's more at stake than they could have ever imagined. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Synopsis submission guide. Detective Jerry Black (Nicholson) knows that the police have caught a suspect who confessed to raping and killing a little girl and then committed suicide. Anonymous. After buying the station, Jerry moves into the house behind it and meets local waitress/bartender Lori (Wright Penn), and her daughter, Chrissy. A cleanly shot, aggressively-spanked story of hazing torture outside collegiate regulation that makes you beg for each and every round of punishment. | Instead, he visits Ginny’s grandmother, Annalise Hansen (Vanessa Redgrave), who tells him of the many stories that she and Ginny used to read; one tells of an Angel who descends from Heaven in order to fly a deceased child over all the places they loved in life, before delivering them to God. The film has a "certified fresh" score of 78% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 124 reviews, with an average rating of 6.88/10. Synopsis On the day of his retirement, detective Jerry Black (Jack Nicholson) accepts a gift -- an airline ticket to Mexico. The Pledge (German: Das Versprechen) is a crime novella by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt, published in 1958, after Dürrenmatt thought that his previous movie script, Es geschah am hellichten Tag ("It happened in broad daylight") did not have a realistic ending. Jerry's solitary life gives way to friendship with a woman and her small, blonde daughter. 0 0. | Director: Daniel Robbins. The Pledge is a flawed film, that doesn't necessitate multiple viewings, but it's good and worth seeing, but it's not a memorable thriller either. Jerry presents his research and Ginny's drawing to Captain Pollack and Stan, who are doubtful. "[3] He has repeated this assertion, but without offering a reason as to why the film did present him as the villain: "There’s another guy who’s in a Mercedes that gets burned at the end. And people tell me I look like the guy in the Mercedes but that’s not me. That's when The Pledge grows most compelling. Penn and Nicholson take risks with the material and elevate the movie to another, unanticipated, haunting level. After having confessed to doing so, Toby steals a deputy’s gun and commits suicide. The distraught mother exacts a pledge that he will find the murderer "upon his soul's salvation". It is based on Friedrich Dürrenmatt's 1958 novella The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel. Jerry suspects that Jackson is Ginny's killer after he invites Chrissy to his church. Dürrenmatt wrote The Pledge to refine the theme he originally developed in the screenplay for the 1958 German film It Happened in Broad Daylight with Heinz Rühmann. The Pledge - Tory Hedderman is a typical, self-centered 16-year-old. Some time later, Jerry sits alone on a bench in front of the ruined gas station. It looks like we don't have a Synopsis for this title yet. Black begins his mental descent at the farewell party by going out on the investigation. With Paris Hilton, Simon Rex, Paula Garcés, Sarah Carter. At night, while reading her a bed-time story, Chrissy tells Jerry that she met a 'wizard' who gave her porcupine candies and told her not to tell her parents of their correspondence. Check out more movies that start with P and movies from (2018) . His motto: If it doesn't have to do with him, why should he care? Pledge is a 2018 American horror film, written by Zack Weiner, directed by Daniel Robbins, and produced by Mark Rapaport and Keaton Heinrichs. Synopsis Clocking in at roughly 77-minutes, the film was directed by Daniel Robbins (The Convenient Job 2015, Uncaged 2016), while its script was written by actor Weiner (who stars as David). Jerry delivers the bad news to Ginny’s parents, and the mother, Margaret Larsen (Patricia Clarkson), makes Jerry swear on a cross, made by their daughter, that he will find the killer. Powered by JustWatch Sean Penn 's "The Pledge" begins as a police story and spirals down into madness. Summary: Rejected by every fraternity on campus, misfit college students pledge a secretive social club with a shocking initiation ritual. Movie Info Freshmen misfits Ethan, David and Justin desperately try to improve their terminally uncool reputations by pledging prestigious Greek houses on their campus. He takes an interest in Chrissy and becomes friends with the small family. He discovers that this is the third incident in the area in the recent past with victims young, blonde, pretty, and small for their ages. Jerry rushes to the church after Jackson picks her up one day while he was fishing, but finds it was nothing more than a close-call, and that Jackson is in reality not the killer. A retiring police detective pledges to catch the killer of a young child. Meanwhile, the police arrest a retarded Native American trapper who had been seen at the scene of the crime and who has a previous rape history. [6][7][8][9], The Pledge received mainly positive reviews from critics. Tom Noonan recounts that, when Battlefield Earth flopped, the film's backers "were so freaked out... that they got on Sean [Penn] about finishing on time and finishing under budget, which wasn’t really possible, because they were shooting in the mountains, and there were four or five scenes that I still had to shoot, which they never shot, which explain who I am in that film. Jerry, out of concern for the their safety, suggests that Lori and Chrissy move in with him temporarily; she agrees. He also knows the real killer is still out there. The Pledge Movie. The film opened in 1,275 theaters and grossed $5,765,347, with an average of $4,521 per theater and ranking #11 at the box office. Be the first to contribute! It provides Jack Nicholson with one of his best roles in recent years, as a retired cop who makes a promise and tries to keep it. Freshman social misfits Ethan (Phillip Andre Botello), David (Zack Weiner), and Justin (Zachery Byrd) are desperate to improve their terminally uncool reputations by pledging one of their university's prestigious Greek houses. I’m the nice guy in that movie. One night, Lori shows up at Jerry's house, bruised and battered, and explains that her ex (who has a restraining order) attacked her. Synopsis / Plot Summary: A group of college freshmen pledge an exclusive fraternity but soon realize there"s more at stake than they could have ever imagined. The overzealous officer in charge uses unorthodox tactics to extract a confused confession. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of The Pledge; Ret. The film centers on collegiate hazing taken to extremes. "[15], The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel, https://film.avclub.com/tom-noonan-1798218359, https://web.archive.org/web/20120314111146/http://stumpedmagazine.com/interviews/tom-noonan.html, "Warner's 'Proof of Life,' 'The Pledge' Bring Suspense to VHS/DVD June 19", Legal spat forces Penn film out of Berlin, Box office / business for 'The Pledge' (2001), https://web.archive.org/web/20181220122629/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Pledge_(film)&oldid=1015388242, Films based on works by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 1 April 2021, at 05:43. You can rush, but you can’t hide. Possibly too slow and ambiguous for some tastes, The Pledge is a strangely frightening film that, despite a pat plot twist at the end, establishes a … Starring: Zachery Byrd Phillip Andre Botello Zachary Weiner Aaron Dalla Villa Cameron Cowperthwaite. Plot Keywords 2:00 PM PST 1/9/2019 by THR Staff FACEBOOK; TWITTER; EMAIL ME; YOUTUBE; The reality is scarier. Jerry goes to Stan and asks him to reopen the case. Using Chrissy as bait, Jerry stages an operation with Stan's help to catch the killer. Aging police detective Jerry Black (Nicholson) attends a retirement party hosted by his department, at which Captain Pollack (Shepherd) presents Jerry tickets to a fishing trip in Mexico as a gift. At least in the script I am. Jerry finds a picture Ginny drew of "The Giant", but it does not resemble Toby, and features a black station wagon and not the red truck driven by Toby. Yes, because Daniel Robbins’ film Pledge does. "[4], The film was released on DVD and VHS on June 19, 2001. "[13] Roger Ebert gave the film three and a half stars out of four,[14] and in 2012 upgraded it to four stars and added it to his "Great Movies" list, writing, "The last third of the movie is where most police stories go on autopilot, with obligatory chases, stalkings and confrontations. An autopsy on Ginny proves that she had consumed chocolate before she died; wrappers found in Toby’s red truck solidify the likelihood that he killed the little girl, and the case is closed, despite Jerry’s suspicions. Because I’m not the guy who killed the kids. Meanwhile, Chrissy begins meeting with a man who drives a black car with a toy porcupine hanging on the rear mirror; porcupines were another aspect of Ginny's drawing that have set Jerry off. Jerry's investigations reveal three local, unsolved cases that bear the same M.O. Jerry decides to go with another detective, Stan Krolak (Eckhart), to the scene of the crime. Found this because I was looking for The Pledge, a film from 2001 starring Jack Nicholson, and Letterboxd's JustWatch feature said it's on Hulu, but it's only there if u have an add-on which of course I don't, and when I searched for that this movie came up and the poster was a bloody paddle and I was like why not so here we are.. Stan refuses but gets Jerry more information about similar cases in the area. "[11] Audiences polled by CinemaScore graded the film "D" on a scale of A+ to F.[12], James Berardinelli gave The Pledge three stars, calling it "clever in the way that it gradually reveals things, but never gives us too much information at one time. Jerry then visits one of Ginny’s friends, who reveals that she had made friends with a man she called "The Giant" shortly before she was killed. "[10] The film also has a score of 71 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 33 critics indicating "Generally favorable reviews. We get a couple of glimpses of him in the beginning of the movie. He is caught up in the horrific crime and then furthermore with the promise. Three friends pledge a fraternity that's deadly serious about its secret rituals, turning their rush into a race for survival. Despondent, destitute, and drunk, Jerry ends up all alone, mumbling to himself that the killer is still out there, unaware that he is actually dead. The killer was the owner of that Christmas store at the start of the film. So he buys an old gas station in the mountains near the crimes in order to search for a tall man who drives a black station wagon, gives toy porcupines as gifts, and calls himself "the wizard", all clues from a drawing by the dead girl. Synopsis. It is based on Friedrich Dürrenmatt's 1958 novella The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel. A suspect, Toby Jay Wadenah (del Toro), a Native American man with mental retardation, is found the next day. It’s like most movies where things go so very wrong. Jerry slowly develops a fatherly relationship with Chrissy, and even begins a romance with Lori herself. She confronts Jerry angrily about putting Chrissy in danger, and breaks up with him. Parents Guide. One day, local pastor Gary Jackson (Noonan) visits Chrissy outside the station. It was in competition at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. Jerry doesn't believe the Police arrested the right man. So I just watched this last night and it seems as Ben was also a pledge with the other three. The critical consensus states "Though its subject matter is grim and may make viewers queasy, The Pledge features an excellent, subtle performance by Jack Nicholson. 'Pledge': Film Review. How far would you go to join the club? Stan uses Toby’s disorder to his advantage, convincing him that he killed Ginny. Still adamant about his pledge to find the killer, Jerry chooses not to go to Mexico and misses his flight. The Pledge Movie Review Summary. Jack Nicholson plays Jerry Black, a Nevada police detective whose retirement party is interrupted by news of the brutal murder of a young girl. Directed by Daniel Robbins. That made-for-television story had demanded an ending in line with that of a typical detective story. I didn’t expect to like this movie nearly as much as I did. The film features an ensemble cast, starring Jack Nicholson, Patricia Clarkson, Aaron Eckhart, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn, Vanessa Redgrave, Sam Shepard, Mickey Rourke, Tom Noonan, Lois Smith and Benicio del Toro. The killer's name was Oliver. The film was shot mainly on location in the British Columbia interior. About this Movie. Kind of like a double agent. With Zachery Byrd, Phillip Andre Botello, Zack Weiner, Aaron Dalla Villa. Pledge. Source(s): https://shrink.im/a8pcy. >isn't formulaic or a by-the-numbers plot driven film, yadda yadda >yadda, somehow absolves it of its absurdities. Synopsis Four friends make an oath sworn in blood to commit suicide one night, but the next morning only one is found lying dead on the school grounds. First things seem weird, then it gets a little wilder and before you know it, you’re caught in a literal nightmare. I’m not the bad guy in the film. Pledge is out in limited theatrical release and On Demand from January 11, 2019. Together they lead the revolt of the not-even-nerds. Taglines also when Ben is leading them through the basement I don't think he is helping them rather than actually leading them to a … PLEDGE. If you got to that seen were Jack Nicholson first walks in to the store you see the killers face at the counter. 7 years ago. Many would claim While fishing, Jerry notices a gas station that is located near the center of the cases. On the day of his retirement, detective Jerry Black (Jack Nicholson) accepts a gift -- an airline ticket to Mexico. 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