Oxygen
- Director: Richard Shepard
- Writer: Richard Shepard
- Producer: George Conda; Mike Curb
CGiii Comment
When directors decide to write...it can go two ways...this was not meant to be the way.
The ending...simply, dreadful.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
A masochistic cop, who hides her predilection from her cop husband, gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini, who has kidnapped a rich woman and has buried her somewhere in Manhattan while demanding a ransom from her tycoon husband. Failure to pay the ransom within 24 hours will lead the kidnapper to abandoning the woman. Dylan Baker also appears as the fed that is assigned to the case.
Cast & Characters
Maura Tierney as Det. Madeline Foster;
Adrien Brody as Harry;
James Naughton as Clark Hannon;
Laila Robins as Frances Hannon;
Terry Kinney as Capt. Tim Foster;
Paul Calderon as Det. Jesse;
Dylan Baker as FBI Agent Jackson Lantham;
Olek Krupa as Madeline's Lover;
Frankie Faison as FBI Agent Phil Kline;
Slavko Stimac as Det. Jerome Jerzy;
Michael Henderson as Greg 'Handsome' Evans;
Robert Shepard as Sal the Bartender;
Eddie Perez as Scary Guy;
Gene Canfield as Joe the Cop;
Christopher J. Quinn as Chris the Cop