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Aka: Dying to Escape
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.
Maddy werkt samen met haar man Tim voor de politie van Manhattan. Ze worden met een zware opdracht belast, wanneer Frances Hannon ontvoerd wordt. De ontvoerders hebben haar levend begraven en eisen van haar man Clark 1 miljoen dollar binnen de 24 uur. Hebben ze het geld niet binnen die tijd, dan zullen ze de plaats waar de vrouw begraven ligt, niet prijsgeven en zal ze langzaamaan stikken.
In the midst of a squelching heat wave, Harry (Adrien Brody)--a deranged psychopath obsessed with the escape artist Houdini--kidnaps the wife of a millionaire and buries her alive in a shallow grave. In his ransom note, Harry threatens to leave the woman buried if his outrageous demands are not met within 24 hours. With time running out, tough-as-nails New York Detective Madeline Foster (Maura Tierney) must track down the criminally insane Harry and negotiate her own personal demons in a tense, psychological game of cat and mouse.