Wrecked is a thriller film, directed by Michael Greenspan, written by Christopher Dodd, produced by Kyle Mann and starring Adrien Brody

Adrien Brody

Adrien Brody is an American actor and film producer. He received widespread recognition and acclaim after starring in Roman Polanski's The Pianist . Winning the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2003 at age 29, he is the youngest actor to do so...

. It was released by IFC Midnight Films

IFC Films

IFC Films is an American film distribution company based in New York, owned by AMC Networks. It distributes independent films and documentaries under the IFC Films, Sundance Selects and IFC Midnight. It operates the IFC Center....

 on April 1, 2011.

Plot

A man, referred to in the movie only as "Man" (Adrien Brody), wakes up in a wrecked car in the bottom of a ravine, covered in blood and with a broken leg. A dead body is behind him. He then hallucinates about a woman finding him. After a few days in this position, he manages to escape the car and fashion a crude splint out of sticks, car parts, a seatbelt, and a belt off of the dead body. In the car, he finds several bags of money and a loaded revolver. Hearing on the car radio about an armed robbery by a man named Raymond Plazzy and finding a credit card in his pocket with Raymond's name on it, he assumes that he is Raymond (he is suffering from temporary amnesia) and that he committed the robbery. He crawls attempting to find a way out of the woods and eventually finds a dog and a bag, containing beef jerky, some cigarettes, a bottle of painkillers, and a cell phone (unable to work due to the location and heavy foliage.)He uses the items in the bag and the dog becomes his companion. Frequently hallucinating about the woman, he finally shoots her with the revolver after realizing the hallucination lead him back to the car. He then decides to get out of the ravine. After crawling for days, he eventually crawls out of the ravine and finds a road and a dead body with a driver's licence that says Raymond Plazzy. He then pieces together what happened to him: He was running errands with his wife (the Woman) when he witnessed an armed robbery. The head robber (the real Raymond) took the man, held him hostage at gunpoint, and drove off in a getaway car. Meanwhile, with a better cell signal, he calls for help. The man is then picked up by a forest ranger, and asks that the dog come with him, to which the park ranger answers, "There's no dog." He then puts on his seat belt, which flashes him back to when he was in the car with the robbers. What had happened next explains how he ended up in the ravine. His memory is also made complete again by the flashback. After showing him with a blank look on his face for a few seconds, the movie abruptly ends.

Cast

• Adrien Brody
  Adrien Brody
  Adrien Brody is an American actor and film producer. He received widespread recognition and acclaim after starring in Roman Polanski's The Pianist . Winning the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2003 at age 29, he is the youngest actor to do so...
  
   as Man/Raymond
• Caroline Dhavernas
  Caroline Dhavernas
  Caroline Dhavernas is a Canadian actress. Dhavernas is best known in the United States as "Jaye" from the short-lived television series Wonderfalls on Fox. She starred as Dr. Lily Brenner in the ABC medical drama Off the Map.-Life and career:...
  
   as Woman
• Ryan Robbins
  Ryan Robbins
  Ryan Robbins is a Canadian actor. He was married to the actress Rebecca Reichert and they have one daughter.-Biography:...
  
   as George Weaver
• Adrian Holmes
  Adrian Holmes
  Adrian Holmes is an actor known for his television work on series such as FOX’s Fringe” and Human Target, CW Supernatural and SYFY’s Battlestar Galactica He may be best known, however, for his recurring role as “Basqat” on the ninth season of long running, the WB/CW television series...
  
   as Man in the Woods
• Jacob Blair as Park Ranger

Reception

Wrecked received mixed reviews from film critics. Rotten Tomatoes

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 gave the film a score of 52%, based on 23 reviews. Metacritic

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gave the film a score of 61 out of 100, based on 10 reviews.

Premiere

The film had a Global Premiere on 15th October 2010 at the Emirates Palace Hotel as part of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival. The film was warmly received by the audience, and was followed by a Q&A session with the director, writer, producer and Adrien Brody where they revealed that the film was shot in just 18 - 20 days.