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Starring:
Richard Gere, Claire Danes, Twink Caplan, Robert Nathan Gleason, Tom B. Gleason, Avril Lavigne, Robyn Reede, Cyd Schulte, Matt Schulze, Kadee Strickland, J. Nathan Simmons, Russell Sams, Z. Ray Wakeman, Matt Sanford, Johnnie Hector, Dylan Scheller, Ric Maddox, Carmen Serano, Josh Berry, Frank Bond, Paul Scallan, Genia Michaela, Ed Ackerman, Dwayne L. Barnes, Erik Davies, Victoria Gallegos, Dylan Kenin, Roberto Enrique Pineda, Bailey Ann Scheller, Kristina Sisco, Chaz Grundy, Genia Michaela
Directed By:
Wai Keung Lau
Written By:
Hans Bauer, Craig Mitchell
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The Flock (2007)
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Movie Review by Zara 
May 23rd, 2008
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I started off by watching this, thinking about how old Richard Gere looked and remembering how much Claire Danes gets on my nerves. Girl has two emotions: stoic and anguished. And that pretty much holds up for the entire movie on her front.
But the story is interesting indeed. Gere is a seasoned vet at keeping an eye on his "flock." That's the name that he refers to his group of registered sex offenders as. He doesn't go by the books, most of the people who work in his division ridicule or dislike him, and he's become angry, disillusioned and jaded with human life in general. That is, unless he believes he's trying to save it.
He circles stories about abductions and rape cases in the paper and tries to pin the crimes to those within his flock. He's exceptionally good at reading people and tries to teach this to Danes' character when she is brought in to be his replacement. She's whiny and easily manipulated. Other than having him around, she exhibits nothing that shows she'd be capable of doing the job that she's assigned to.
The movie is good because of Gere and bad because it plays out like an extended episode of "Law & Order: SVU." This is a good movie for those viewers who like salacious material but don't like reality (I was reading over some of the reviews of THE GIRL NEXT DOOR that people had posted on NetFlix and a great number of them thought the movie was disgusting, even though it was depicting true events of a woman that actually tortured a teen girl and got her children to help. It seems that as long as the story is fictional, people are OK with it. But make it the slightest bit believable and suddenly it's "disgusting" or "disturbed." Whatever.)
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