Do Not Disturb (1999)

User Rating:

4.7/10   

Director:

Dick Maas

Writer:

Dick Maas (writer)

Release Date:

4 November 1999 (Netherlands)

Genre:

Action | Thriller | Comedy

Tagline:

She could not talk... She could not scream... She could only run...

Plot:

Do Not Disturb tells the story of an American family in Amsterdam whose mute 10 year old daughter witnesses a murder. The murderers chase the child through nightly Amsterdam.

Plot Keywords:

Mute | Murder | Witness | Boat | Streetcar

Cast

William Hurt	...	Walter Richmond
Jennifer Tilly	...	Cathryn Richmond
Denis Leary	...	Simon
Francesca Brown	...	Melissa Richmond
Michael Chiklis	...	Rudolph Hartman
Corey Johnson	...	Bruno Decker
Jason Merrells	...	Chris Mulder
David Gwillim	...	Simon Van Der Molen
Francis Matthews	...	Manager
Michael A. Goorjian	...	Billy Boy Manson (as Michael Goorjian)
Aaron Swartz	...	Lt. Winter
Tim Faraday	...	Lt. Brand
Mark Salter	...	Receptionist
Michael Krass	...	Reluctant Policeman
John Sharian	...	Bodyguard

Also Known As:

Do not disturb - Zwei Augen zu viel (Germany)
Silent Witness (USA) (video title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, language, some drug use and sexuality.

Runtime:

94 min

Country:

Germany | Netherlands

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Malaysia:18SG (uncut version) | Malaysia:U (cut version) | South Korea:18 | UK:18 | Italy:VM14 | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-15 | France:U | Germany:16 | Hong Kong:IIB | Netherlands:16 | Norway:15 | Peru:14 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Company:

CLT-UFA International

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Allemaal film: De amerikaanse droom (#1.6)" (2007)

Strangest Action Flick I've ever seen

In the first 20 minutes of this flick I began to wonder if there was an Amsterdam in the U.S. Not one major or minor role in this movie had a Dutch accent. This distracted me from enjoying an otherwise interesting story set in one of Europe's oldest cities.

Distraction then led to befuddlement. The Script writer seemed fixated on Amsterdam's reputation as a purveyor of child porn and pedophilia. There was more than a couple of instants were characters made reference to their own awful proclivity.

Add to that gruesome and astonishingly gratuitous scenes of violence which were oddly incongruous (ie. the ambulance wheel rolling over a para-medic's head mashing it like an over-ripe pumpkin.)

But most of all. I could not believe Oscar-winner, William Hurt or even Jennifer Tilly and Dennis Leary could associate themselves with this strange and uneven film.