Derailed

Charles Schine is an advertising executive with a wife, Diana, who teaches at a local school, and a daughter, Amy, who has diabetes. One morning, after tending to Amy, he misses his usual train to Manhattan and takes the next one. On board, a woman named Lucinda Harris offers to pay his fare when he comes up short. The two are both married, and what begins as mild flirtation leads them to a hotel room, where a violent intruder named LaRoche bursts in and robs them. Because neither wants to involve the police, LaRoche is able to keep demanding money from Charles, and Charles finds himself drawn into an increasingly dangerous struggle to protect his family.

Derailed was directed by Mikael Håfström and released in 2005, the third of the eleven features listed in his filmography, following Evil and Drowning Ghost. Stuart Beattie wrote the screenplay, Lorenzo di Bonaventura produced, and Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston star as Charles and Lucinda, with Vincent Cassel as LaRoche. Melissa George, Giancarlo Esposito and David Morrissey appear in supporting roles.

Made for a modest budget, the film earned around two and a half times that amount worldwide, a solid commercial result. On IMDb it holds a 6.6 rating from roughly 79,000 votes, and on TMDB a 6.4 from about 1,200 votes. Critics were considerably less enthusiastic, giving it 4.8 out of 10 across 124 reviews, well below what audiences awarded it.