The pledge [videorecording] / Morgan Creek Productions, Inc. and Franchise Pictures, a Clyde Is Hungry Films/Michael Fitzgerald production ; producers, Michael Fitzgerald, Sean Penn, Elie Samaha ; screenplay writers, Jerzy Kromolowski, Mary Olson-Kromolowski ; director, Sean Penn.
Jack Nicholson, Patricia Clarkson, Benicio Del Toro, Aaron Eckhart, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright Penn, Vanessa Redgrave, Sam Shepard, Harry Dean Stanton. Videocassette release of the 2001 motion picture. Based on the book "The pledge" by Friedrich Durrenmatt.
Summary:
A veteran police detective, on the day of his retirement, handles the case of a seven-year-old girl who has been brutally murdered. When a mentally retarded man confesses to the murder and then kills himself, the detectives consider the case closed, but was he actually the murderer? Before long evidence is uncovered that suggests the the girl was just one in a series of brutal killings involving young girls and a mysterious man.
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