The Pledge

(2001)

★ 6.6 IMDb · 1,254 votes

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Year: 2001

Runtime: 117 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Шон Пенн

Cast: Джек Николсон, Хелен Миррен, Аарон Екгарт, Робин Райт, Сем Шепард, Бенисио дель Торо, Патрисия Кларксон, Микки Рурк, Ванесса Редгрейв, Лоис Смит

Plot

A police chief, about to retire, pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer.

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. Jerry doesn't believe the Police arrested the right man. 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. 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. Jerry's solitary life gives way to friendship with a woman and her small, blonde daughter. Has Jerry neglected something that may prove to be fatal?