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| The Flock | |
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| Directed by | Andrew Lau |
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| Cinematography | Enrique Chediak |
| Edited by | Martin Hunter |
| Music by | Guy Farley |
| Distributed by | The Weinstein Company |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | US$35 million[1] |
| Box office | $7,119,846 |
The Flock is a 2007 Americanthriller film directed byAndrew Lau, the co-director of theInfernal Affairs trilogy. The film, which marks his firstEnglish-language film, starsRichard Gere andClaire Danes.
A hyper-vigilant agent of theDepartment of Public Safety Erroll Babbage checks onregistered sex offenders. Burnt out after a long career, he has become frustrated with the system of sex offender monitoring. With little faith in humanity left, he takes on one last job to find a missing girl.
He is three weeks away from taking early retirement and his final job is to train his young female replacement Allison Lowry. After being left a newspaper with his characteristic headline circling, he is convinced the case of kidnapping is connected to aparoledsex offender he's monitoring and he takes it upon himself to find the victim at all costs.
Errol is eventually forced to leave the department early due to his relentless interrogation of sexual offenders and occasional vigilante actions against them. His efforts center on Viola, a woman who has a history of being abused but is known to have a connection to another culprit that Errol suspects to have taken the girl. Together with his partner they figure out that Viola has become an abuser herself and is the ringleader in a kidnapping and torture syndicate. They track her down to a deserted scrap heap where they find the latest kidnapped girl as well as corpses of previous victims. The movie ends with Viola being brought to book after Errol considers killing her. Errol and Allison realize that in fighting the monsters involved in sexual offenses, they must not become monsters themselves.
In August 2005, it was announcedRichard Gere would star inThe Flock, the English-language debut ofAndrew Lau with producerPhilippe Martinez fully financing the film's entire $35 million budget.[2] After production had wrapped,The Flock had its release held up due to disagreements over the final cut.[3]
The film was released theatrically in several countries throughout the world in late 2007 and early 2008. In the United States, it premiered April 11, 2008, at thePalm Beach International Film Festival, before being released onDVD on May 20, 2008, byGenius Products.[4][5]
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