Taglines: He may have retired, but he’s still catching the killer.
The Pledge movie storyline. The night he retires as a Nevada sheriff, Jerry Black pledges to the mother of a murdered girl that he will find the killer. Jerry doesn’t believe the police arrested the right man; he discovers this is the third incident in the area in the recent past with victims young, blond, pretty, and small for their age.
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: clues from a drawing by the dead girl. Jerry’s solitary life gives way to friendship with a woman and her small, blond daughter. Has Jerry neglected something that may prove fatal?
The Pledge is a 2001 American mystery drama film directed by Sean Penn. The film features an ensemble cast, starring Jack Nicholson, Aaron Eckhart, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn, Vanessa Redgrave, Sam Shepard, Mickey Rourke, and Benicio del Toro. It is based on Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s 1958 novella The Pledge: Requiem for the Detective Novel. 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 (2001)
Directed by: Sean Penn
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Aaron Eckhart, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn, Vanessa Redgrave, Sam Shepard, Patricia Clarkson, Dale Dickey, Nels Lennarson, Kathy Jensen
Screenplay by: Jerzy Kromolowski, Mary Olson-Kromolowski
Production Design by: Bill Groom
Cinematography by: Chris Menges
Film Editing by: Jay Cassidy
Costume Design by: Jill M. Ohanneson
Set Decoration by: Lesley Beale
Art Direction by: Helen Jarvis
Music by: Klaus Badelt, Hans Zimmer
MPAA Rating: R for strong violence and language.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: January 19, 2001
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