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Wrecked is a Canadian thriller film, directed by Michael Greenspan, written by Christopher Dodd, produced by Kyle Mann and starring Adrien Brody.[2] It was released by IFC Midnight Films on April 1, 2011.[3]
This is the first feature film directed by Michael Greenspan. He had previously directed three short films.
Plot
A man (Adrien Brody) wakes up, severely injured, in a wrecked car in the bottom of a ravine with his right leg stuck between the dashboard and the door. He has a broken leg and is suffering from amnesia. Two other passengers are dead nearby. He hallucinates about a woman (Caroline Dhavernas) finding him. He also drives away a cougar after giving two warning shots from a revolver he retrieved inside the car. While in the car, he hears on the car radio about an armed robbery by a man named Raymond Plazzy. Finding a credit card under the passenger seat in the name of Raymond Plazzy, The man assumes that he is Raymond Plazzy and that he committed the robbery. After a few days of being stuck in that position, he manages to escape the car by prying out the car door with a shifter lever.
In the trunk of the car, he finds bags of money. He starts to crawl up the hill away from the car. A second man (Adrian Holmes) wearing hunting gear emerges from the woods and starts to loot the wrecked car. The first man tries to stop the hunter, who just aims his gun at him before he runs away with some of the stolen money. A dog appears, and the man follows it into the woods. He finds a working cell phone inside a cave, discovering the tragic fate of the hunter who was possibly attacked by the cougar. The man cannot obtain a signal in the woods.
Frequently hallucinating about the woman, he finally shoots her with the revolver after realizing the hallucination led him back to the car. He then decides to get out of the ravine. After crawling for days, he finds a road and a dead body with a driver's license that says Raymond Plazzy. He then pieces together what happened to him: He was running errands with his wife (the woman) when he witnessed an armed robbery and was taken hostage by Plazzy. Plazzy, the man, and his two fellow robbers were driving down the road, arguing about the situation; and he used the moment to grab the wheel, causing the car to crash. Suddenly, the cougar appears; the man gives the dead body to the cougar to eat. The man now has a cell phone signal and calls for help.
The man is picked up by a forest ranger. When getting in the truck, he asks about the dog but it's nowhere to be seen. When he clicks his seat belt, he remembers doing it[clarification needed] before causing the crash as the scene blacks out.
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The film's global premiere took place on 15 October 2010 at Emirates Palace, a luxury hotel, as part of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival. The film was warmly received by the audience, and was followed by a Q&A session with the director, writer, producer and Adrien Brody where they revealed that the film was shot in just 18 – 20 days.[citation needed]
Wrecked received mixed to favorable reviews from film critics. Rotten Tomatoes rates the film 48% with an average score of 5.3 out of 10, based on 27 reviews.[4]Metacritic, which uses a weighted score, gives the film a score of 61 out of 100, indicating "generally favorable reviews", based on 10 reviews.[5]
In a brief New York Times review, Jeannette Catsoulis complains that the film moves slowly at first and lacks suspense.[6]
