Taglines: Your fear is their desire
The Flock is an American thriller film directed by Andrew Lau, the co-director of the Infernal Affairs trilogy. The film, which marks his first English-language film, stars Richard Gere and Claire Danes.
A hyper-vigilant agent of the Department of Public Safety Erroll Babbage (Richard Gere) checks on registered sex offenders. Burnt out after a long career, he has become frustrated with the system of sex offender monitoring. With little faith in humanity left he takes on one last job to find a missing girl (Kristina Sisco).
He is three weeks away from taking early retirement and his final job is to train his young female replacement Allison Lowry (Claire Danes). After being left a newspaper with his characteristic headline circling, he is convinced the case of kidnapping is connected to a paroled sex offender he’s monitoring and he takes it upon himself to find the victim at all costs.
Errol is eventually forced to leave the department early due to his relentless interrogation of sexual offenders and occasional vigilante actions against them. His efforts center on Viola (KaDee Strickland), a woman who has a history of being abused but is known to have a connection to another culprit that Errol suspects to have taken the girl. Together with his partner they figure out that Viola has become an abuser herself and is the ringleader in a kidnapping and torture syndicate.
They track her down to a deserted scrap heap where they find the latest kidnapped girl as well as corpses of previous victims. The movie ends with Viola being brought to book after Errol considers killing her. Errol and Allison realize that in fighting the monsters involved in sexual offenses, they must not become monsters themselves.
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The Flock (2008)
Directed by: Andrew Lau
Starring: Richard Gere, Claire Danes, KaDee Strickland, Ray Wise, Russell Sams, Avril Lavigne, Kristina Romero, Dwayne Barnes, Matt Schulze, Debrianna Mansini, Susan Conklin, Carmen Serano
Screenplay by: Hans Bauer, Craig Mitchell
Production Design by: Lester Cohen
Cinematography by: Enrique Chediak
Film Editing by: Tracy Adams, Martin Hunter
Costume Design by: Deborah Everton
Set Decoration by: Carla Curry
Art Direction by: Ed Vega
Music by: Guy Farley
MPAA Rating: R for perverse content involving aberrant sexuality and strong violence, and for language.
Distributed by: Freestyle Releasing, The Weinstein Company
Release Date: May 20, 2008
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