Big Driver
As her mind is shattered, famed mystery novelist Tess Thorne (Maria Bello) seeks revenge on the man who brutally assaulted her and left her for dead on a desolate New England road.
30 January 1956, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
1976, St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada
18 April 1967, Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA
25 October 1986, Los Angeles, California, USA
20 June 1931, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
30 September 1953, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
22 September 1958, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
October 17, 2014
It's a powerful film - not because its story of a vengeful female will shine a light on social injustices, but simply because it grips viewers and doesn't let go until the credits are rolling. Maria Bello is a pain-stricken wonder.
October 20, 2014
Like some of King's other tales, it loses its way, devolving into a rape revenge fantasy whose potency is diluted by silly gimmicks like a talking GPS system with a mind of its own.
October 17, 2014
It's too simple and straightforward for its own good.
October 17, 2014
Big Driver is slimmer in content, as well as form, than Misery, but it is nonetheless gripping.
January 30, 2015
You've gotta really be willing to throw logic out the window to enjoy "Big Driver," a revenge-thriller based on the Stephen King novella. But, as TV movies go, it isn't that bad and certainly the cast is excellent.
October 20, 2014
If only it weren't such a disturbingly retro and sadistically sensationalized take on the subject. If only it were any good at all.
October 17, 2014
Solid star turn, eerie production values, even a killer ending. Nice symmetry, Steve.
October 19, 2014
An often toothless and ridiculous rape revenge thriller...
October 17, 2014
A few horror-story cliches seep in, but with Bello playing a character who is strikingly unglamorous and at times not even sympathetic, Big Driver should deliver for its audience.
October 17, 2014
Such commercial considerations notwithstanding, in the wake of a recent run of cynical Lifetime movie topics, from Saved by the Bell to Brittany Murphy, Big Driver runs into another creative dead end.
