Product Description: Erroll Babbage (Richard Gere) has spent his career tracking sex offenders and his unorthodox methods are nearly as brutal as the criminals he monitors. When he links one of his deranged parolees to the disappearance of a local girl he and his new partner (Claire Danes) must scour the S&M underground to find her before it's too late.System Requirements:Running Time: 96 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS Rating: R UPC: 796019803861 Manufacturer No: 80386
Amazon.com: Richard Gere stars in The Flock as Errol Babbage, a government employee in charge of tracking registered sex offenders who has become convinced he can tell when they're about to offend again. When a young girl is kidnapped, he loses his bearings and sinks into a violent obsession, dragging his new partner (Claire Danes) into a dogged investigation that includes abusive interrogations, flagrant violations of civil rights, and a whole lot of sexual tension between the two of them. The Flock is the sort of overheated thriller that wants to condemn sexual deviance while depicting it in absurdly lurid and titillating ways (the scenes in a porn studio/fetish market are slathered with moral indignation but ooze with repressed lust). The movie wants to be a portrait of a passionate man who risks becoming what he most abhors, but it's implausible at every turn. The Flock lurches from one sleazy sequence to another, intoxicated by its own hypocrisy, cheering on Babbage's vigilantism while pretending to compare it with the dangerous acting-out of the deviants. In the end, Babbage is redeemed and affirmed. Also featuring Ray Wise (Twin Peaks), KaDee Strickland (Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid), French Stewart (3rd Rock from the Sun), and an extremely brief appearance by pop star Avril Lavigne. --Bret Fetzer
Track the Flock Richard Gere plays the lead character, Erroll Babbage, an employee of the department of public safety, whom takes his duties a little too seriously.
Erroll Babbage doesn't know how to do anything else, but his work at the department of public safety as he has made it his entire way of life. His methods for dealing with sexual offenders is very unorthodox, if not altogether controversial, and illegal according to department standards. Erroll Babbage is so out there that he has alienated himself from his co-workers and supervisors that he has been forced into early retirement.
Claire Danes plays the role of Allison Lowry. Ms. Lowry is the new kid on the block hired by the department of public safety to take over Erroll Babbage's position. Erroll Babbage has one month to train Allison Lowry to do his job of which he seems reluctant to do.... In fact, he harasses Ms. Lowry and invades her privacy and even goes as far as placing her life at risk.
When a teenage girl goes missing, Babbage feels that it is one of the offenders he oversees and so he sets out on finding the person who has kidnapped the teenager. "The Flock" becomes a chilling, gruesome suspense thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat as to what the outcome will be as well as to who is the kidnapper!! One also begins to question whether Errol Babbage has lost his marbles from being overworked or if he really has a handle on who could be committing the heinous crimes! Watch the movie to find out.
Only major down fall is that Richard Gere doesn't seem the best man for the role of Errol Babbage.
Heavy Gere - 3.5 Stars This is one of Richard Gere's strongest performances - thanks to taut direction from Andrew Lau. Gere melds himself convincingly into the role of a man haunted by his past, the onerous aspects of his job, and the sexual offenders that he polices - aka his "flock". His character Errol Babbage finds himself in a very dark place - far darker than where Gere has gone before, as I recall him in roles like Internal Affairs. This film reminds me of "Seven" with Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, but is more disturbing in many ways. Intense viewing and probably not for the faint of heart or those who expecting a comfortable feel good film or Richard Gere as eye candy...Claire Dane delivers a consistent performance as the protege stepping into uncomfortable shoes. They could've dialed it up even higher and avoided a Hollywood ending, but it's pretty gritty as it is. I give Gere's performance 4.5 stars.
intense relevant who done it for sophisticated viewers well researched sex-tinged mystery utilizing risk assessment tools crafted by law enforcement and forensic psychological professionals. likely to keep you glued and guessing till the final scene.
Creepy Flick I watched this last night on DVD. It was well-acted and suspenseful. It actually caused me to have a nightmare around 3AM so someone did something right.
his best ever film bar none why was this film not in the cinema ? a must see film for adults on the edge of your seat film pity it was not longer and if tom hanks took the lead role it would have been OSCAR material no doubt because it was him . I very highly recomend this film to everyone .
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