The Pledge

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The Pledge
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R,2hrs 4min
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January 19, 2001
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Warner Brothers
Synopsis: Sean Penn directed this tense drama of loyalty, honor, and obsession, based on a novel by Friedrich Durrenmatt. Jerry Black (Jack Nicholson) is a veteran police detective who lives and works in a small Nevada town. On the day of his retirement, it falls to Jerry to handle an especially unpleasant assignment -- a seven-year-old girl has been brutally murdered, and Jerry has to check out the crime scene, and then tell the girl's parents the awful news. The girl's mother (Patricia Clarkson), understandably ... Full Synopsis
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The second collaboration between star Jack Nicholson and director Sean Penn results in a quiet, absorbing character study of the psychological effects of obsession. Nicholson is the great lion of cinematic acting, America's answer to Britain's rapidly disappearing Shakespearean luminaries. Here he earns his mantle once again with one of his best and most subtle performances, as a man stripped of power ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Jerry Black
Margret Larsen
Toby Jay Wadenah
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Sean Penn attends the premiere of "The Pledge" at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 15,...
Jack Nicholson and ex-girlfriend Lara Flynn Boyle attend the premiere of "The Pledge" in Hollywood,...
Sean Penn at the Hollywood premiere of "The Pledge."
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