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{{short description|2001 American thriller film by Gary Fleder}}
{{For|the Sonata Arctica EP|Don't Say a Word (EP)}}
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Having been released from prison two weeks earlier, Patrick and the remaining gang members break into an apartment which overlooks Nathan's apartment, where he lives with his wife Aggie and daughter Jessie. Nathan is informed by Patrick that Elisabeth is only pretending to be insane to hide in the institution from this gang that is searching for the gem. That evening, Patrick kidnaps Jessie as a means of forcing Nathan to acquire a six-digit number from Elisabeth's memory. As Nathan visits Elisabeth, she is reluctant at first, but he gains her trust later{{snd}}especially when he reveals the situation with Jessie. Sachs admits to Nathan that the gang who kidnapped Jessie also kidnapped his girlfriend to force him to acquire the number from Elisabeth. Sachs is then visited by Detective Sandra Cassidy, who reveals to him that his girlfriend has been found dead. Meanwhile, Aggie hears Jessie's voice and realizes the kidnappers reside in the nearby apartment. The kidnappers send one of them to kill Aggie while the others escape with Jessie, but Aggie sets an ambush and kills him.
After Nathan takes Elisabeth out of the sanatorium, she remembers certain events regarding the gang. It is revealed that Elisabeth's father was the gang member who double crossed the others and kept the gem. However, other members of the gang later found him and ordered him to reveal where he had hidden the gem, subsequently pushing him in front of a subway train. The gang members were arrested immediately, and Elisabeth escaped with her doll in which the gem was hidden. She also remembers that the required number,
Nathan and Elisabeth steal a boat to reach Hart Island. The gang members track them down and demand that Nathan give them the number they want. Elisabeth reveals the number and Patrick orders his companion to exhume her father's coffin after releasing Jessie. He finds the doll and the gem hidden inside it. He then decides to kill Nathan and Elisabeth, but Cassidy arrives before he can shoot them. Patrick's companion is shot by Cassidy, but Patrick manages to wound her. Taking advantage of the confusion, Nathan takes the gem from Patrick and throws it into an open mass grave. Nathan kicks Patrick into the grave, and then triggers a collapse of its sides, filling the grave with dirt and burying Patrick alive. Nathan reunites with Aggie and Jessie, thanks Cassidy, and invites Elisabeth to live with them.
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* [[Sean Bean]] as Patrick Koster, thieves leader who kidnaped Jessie
* [[Brittany Murphy]] as Elisabeth Burrows, a "disturbed" young lady
* [[Skye McCole Bartusiak]] as Jessie Conrad, Nathan and Aggie's daughter who
* [[Guy Torry]] as Martin Dolen
* [[Jennifer Esposito]] as Sandra Cassidy, a police officer
* [[Shawn Doyle]] as Russel Maddox
* [[Larry Block]] as Doorman▼
* [[Victor Argo]] as Sydney Simon
* [[Conrad Goode]] as Max
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* [[Famke Janssen]] as Aggie Conrad, Nathan's wife and Jessie's mother
* [[Oliver Platt]] as Louis Sachs
▲* [[Larry Block]] as Doorman
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==Soundtrack==
The film's musical score was composed by [[Mark Isham]] and performed by the [[Hollywood Studio Symphony]]. The soundtrack was released on CD from Varèse Sarabande that contains eight score selections from various scenes, including Heist, Kidnapped and the horrific events at Subway.
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==Reception==
=== Critical response <span class="anchor" id="Critics"></span>===
''Don't Say a Word'' received
[[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' gave the film two and a half stars out of four, deeming that "the movie as a whole looks and occasionally plays better than it is" and praising Gary Fleder's "poetic visual touch" as well as Brittany Murphy's and Sky McCole Bartusiak's performances.<ref>[[Ebert, Roger]] (28 September 2001). [https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/dont-say-a-word-2001 "Don't Say A Word"]. Roger Ebert/''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]''.</ref> Conversely, in his review for ''[[Empire (film magazine)|Empire]]'', [[Kim Newman]] found the film bland and thought it "rarely manages to make you forget its blatant silliness". He did however praise the female cast, in particular Famke Janssen.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/say-word/review/ |title=Don't Say A Word Review | date=1 January 2000 |last=Newman |first=Kim |work=[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]] | access-date=8 June 2019}}</ref>
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