USA: PREMIERE OF JACK NICHOLSON AND SEAN PENN MOVIE "THE PLEDGE"

Record ID: 546791

  • Title: USA: PREMIERE OF JACK NICHOLSON AND SEAN PENN MOVIE "THE PLEDGE"
  • Date: 8th January 2001
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (JANUARY 8, 2001) (REUTERS) SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) SEAN PENN SAYING "The way that this movie came to happen is that I found myself, like most people who work with Jack Nicholson, enjoying working with Jack when I did the first movie with him. And he read thrillers, to relax, so I thought, well that may be something that interests him, if I could find something with an element of what I am interested in." SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) ROBIN WRIGHT PENN SAYING "It's, because you have clarity outside and you know, intimately, this person, it only makes it easier, when you work together. Because you don't need all of that first date stuff."
  • Embargoed: 23rd January 2001 12:00
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  • Location: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES AND FILM LOCATIONS
  • Country: USA
  • Reuters ID: LVA110LR58OEO6PRNKMXN990XQEC
  • Story Text: Jack Nicholson takes on a role on the right side of the law for a change, playing a homicide detective in his second collaboration with actor turned director Sean Penn. The pair attended the World Premiere of "The Pledge" in Los Angeles.
    The Pledge is Penn's third feature film as a director.
    His first was 1991's "The Indian Runner," while his sophomore effort was 1995's "The Crossing Guard," which also marked his first collaboration with Jack Nicholson.
    In "The Pledge," Nicholson plays retiring homicide detective Jerry Black, who takes one final case on the day of his retirement party. It involves the brutal murder of a young girl.
    In the course of notifying the girl's parents, he makes a solemn promise to her mother to find and bring to justice the killer. But when his colleagues on the police force, played by Aaron Eckhart and Sam Shepard, believe they've caught the guilty party, Jerry isn't satisfied.
    Following his instincts, he embarks on an intensive crusade to find the murderer, during which months turn into years and rational police work turns into a personal obsession.
    As the case drags on and threatens Jerry's very sanity, his methods and motives for solving the crime become dangerously blurred.
    Also in the cast is Penn's off-screen wife Robin Wright Penn, who plays a small town waitress and single mother of a young girl who befriends Jerry and gets entangled in his plans to trap the true culprit.
    "The Pledge" opens in theaters throughout the United States on Friday, January 19.
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