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Synopsis: "The Cell" takes a shocking, riveting mind trip into the dark and dangerous corridors of a serial killer's psyche -- a psyche that holds the key to saving the killer's final, trapped victim who remains alive. Making this journey into the recesses of a killer's nightmarish fantasy world is Catherine Deane, a psychologist who has been experimenting with a radical new therapy. Through a new transcendental science, Catherine can experience what is happening in another person's unconscious mind.
Production: New Line Cinema
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 23 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
40
Rotten Tomatoes:
46%
R
Year:
2000
107 min
Website
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ELLA:

My husband wonders if that's true.

(delivering bad news)

He wants to place Edward in a hospital.

Seeing an unfunded future, Henry's ready to disassociate

himself from Miriam and Catherine...

HENRY:

There are other applications for the

scanner, Mr. Baines...

LUCIEN:

I realize that, Henry...

(to Miriam)

And I know your work, Dr. Kent, is

invaluable to this company...

CATHERINE:

You don't know about me, though, do you?

LUCIEN:

Catherine, we've waited eighteen months

for signs of progress...

CATHERINE:

There's been progress.

LUCIEN:

Yes, but there is no proof the procedure

works. All I have is a belief that your

interaction with my son is not a

hallucination.

Catherine is hurt and vulnerable due to exhaustion and the

intensity of her experience with Edward, but feels she must

defend herself.

CATHERINE:

(to Cooperman, Miriam, Henry)

You picked me, remember? And I took the

job. Gladly. This is the next wave and

I want to be part of it...

COOPERMAN:

No one is doubting your ability.

CATHERINE:

Then what is it?

Introspective and solemn-eyed, Lucien takes a moment, then:

LUCIEN:

I've invested millions of dollars in

this study... And I've convinced others

to do the same. I suppose I should feel

responsible to them, but I don't. I

could care less if they see a profit.

I'm responsible to my boy, that's all

that matters.

(looks her in the eye)

You tell me... Am I doing the right

thing?

OFF CATHERINE'S FACE...

INT. WHITE ROOM - DAY

At first, we're not sure where we are or what's happening.

It's too bright, the space confining. As our eyes adjust, we

seem to be in a bathroom or shower stall. We HEAR a WOMAN

CRYING and the camera finds ANNE VICKSEY. Dark circles

beneath eyes red and puffy from crying. Hair wet and ratted.

Sweater and pants damp and stained. Barefoot, she shivers

from cold and fear...

PULL BACK to show more of her surroundings. The white-tiled

10' x 8' room features a SHOWER HEAD, TOILET, and a push

button SPIGOT for drinking water. Two walls are SOLID, the

other two MIRRORED, the glass covered by thick clear plastic.

The floor is littered with empty food wrappers - candy bars,

juice boxes. In the center of the floor is a DRAIN and above

her, on the ceiling, a FLUORESCENT LAMP, also encased in

clear plastic.

There is no door.

A mechanism CLICKS. Then a RUMBLING... Anne seems to know

what's coming. She presses against the wall, removes her

arms from the sleeves of the sweater, hunches down, and

raises the garment over her head, forming a tent.

WATER ERUPTS from the shower head. There is no steam, so

this water must be cold. Shaking, Anne whispers a count to

herself - "One-one thousand, two-one thousand, three..." and

so on. The spray hits everything in the room - mirror,

toilet, floor - and a food wrapper drifts toward the drain.

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Mark Protosevich

Mark David Protosevich is an American screenwriter. He wrote the screenplays for the films Poseidon and I Am Legend. Protosevich was born in Chicago, Illinois and is an alumnus of Columbia College Chicago. more…

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