Egde of darkness
Edge of Darkness is a 2010 film adaptation of the 1985 BBC television series of the same name. The film
stars Mel Gibson and Ray Winstone, and is directed by Martin Campbell
and produced by Michael Wearing, who also directed and produced the
series respectively. Edge of Darkness follows a detective (Gibson)
investigating the murder of his activist daughter (Bojana Novakovic),
while uncovering political conspiracies and cover-ups in the process.
At first, everyone believes that Thomas, a police detective, was the
gunman's target, but when Thomas finds Emma had a pistol in her night
stand, he starts to suspect that Emma was an intended target. He checks
the ownership of the pistol and finds that it belongs to her boyfriend
David (Shawn Roberts). David is frightened of the company Northmoor
where Emma worked and Thomas discovers that Emma became aware that
Northmoor was manufacturing nuclear weapons, intended to be traced to
foreign nations if they are used as dirty bombs. Following the failed
break-in of the activists, Emma was poisoned with thallium through a
carton of organic milk. Burning her effects in his lawn, Thomas
encounters Jedburgh (Ray Winstone), a "consultant" tasked to prevent
Craven from discovering Emma's information, or kill him. Liking each
other, instead, Jedburgh leaves Thomas to investigate.
Throughout the film, Thomas repeatedly imagines he hears and sees his
daughter, even having short conversations and interactions with her.
On its first weekend, the film opened #2 grossing $17.1 million behind Avatar. As of 21 March, the film has grossed
$43,076,662 in the United States and Canada and $25,253,931 in foreign
countries for a worldwide total of $68,330,593.
