Captivity

Captivity follows Jennifer Tree, a top model whose face is everywhere in New York, on magazine covers and billboards. After she is drugged while out alone, she wakes in a cell that has been prepared for her, furnished with belongings taken from her own home. Her captor watches her constantly and forces her to relive recordings of herself and of other women who were held there before. Jennifer comes to realize she is not the only prisoner: a young man, Gary, is confined in an adjoining room, and the two manage to communicate through the barrier between them. Their attempts to escape fail each time, as though the man holding them already knows what they will try.

The film is a crime and horror thriller directed by Roland Joffé, working from a screenplay by Larry Cohen and Joseph Tura. It is the seventh of the ten features listed in his filmography, arriving between Vatel and The Lovers. Elisha Cuthbert plays Jennifer, with Daniel Gillies as Gary, Pruitt Taylor Vince as Ben Dexter, Laz Alonso as Disantos, Chrysta Olson as Mary and Michael Harney as Bettiger.

Captivity was released in 2007 and runs 85 minutes. Made for a reported 17 million dollars, it returned roughly 11 million worldwide. Reception was poor on both sides. Film critics' reviews average 3.3 out of 10, while on TMDB the rating is 4.9 out of 10 from 477 votes, figures that point to a broad consensus rather than a divided response.