Really Bad Posters For Really Bad Movies: Untraceable
I haven’t seen Untraceable, but I have seen the trailer, and I feel like I’ve seen probably two minutes too much for this film. Yes, I am prejudging this flick, but at least I’m disclosing this fact upfront.
IMPA has two new posters for the Diane Lane/Colin Hanks FBI Hacking Thriller. You got to love it when the theatrical advertising is just as bad as the movie, and this seems to be a prime example. To think that Frequency director Gregory Hoblit has resorted to such a film disappoints me greatly. Thankfully, I’ll be at Sundance when this film comes out (not that Screen Gems will likely screen this “gem” for press). Check out the movie posters.
Official Plot Synopsis:
Within the FBI, there exists a division dedicated to investigating and prosecuting criminals on the internet. Welcome to the front lines of the war on cybercrime, where Special Agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) has seen it all……until now. A tech-savvy internet predator is displaying his graphic murders on his own website – and the fate of each of his tormented captives is left in the hands of the public: the more hits his site gets, the faster his victims die. When this game of cat and mouse becomes personal, Marsh and her team must race against the clock to track down this technical mastermind who is virtually untraceable.
Untraceable hits theaters on January 25th 2008.
Linda Cardellini Biography
Fresh-faced Linda Cardellini racked up acting credits with parts in film and television before landing a breakthrough role as an honor student in the midst of an identity crisis on NBC’s acclaimed high school drama “Freaks and Geeks” (1999-2000) and while the much admired show was short-lived, she parlayed the critical accolades into a thriving career in film and television. The attractive and talented actress came across as strong-willed, smart and sassy on screen, separating her from the sea of homogenized young adult performers inundating film and television in the late 1990s.
Cardellini made her series regular debut on the ABC Saturday morning live-action children’s series “Bone Chillers” during the 1996-1997 season, and was additionally featured in 1997 episodes of “Clueless” (UPN), “Step by Step” (CBS), “Pacific Palisades” and “3rd Rock From the Sun” (both NBC). She hit the big screen for the first time with a supporting role in the 1997 comedy “Good Burger” and could next be seen in the college campus dark comedy “Dead Man On Campus”, playing the silent girlfriend of a high-strung and violent student (future “Freaks and Geeks” co-star Jason Segel), whose roommates use his often vacant room to house a series of troubled undergraduates in the hopes of landing the 4.0 GPA offered to the suitemates of a suicidal student.
As one of the victims of masochistic internet predator Captain Howdy, Cardellini was featured in the thriller “Dee Snider’s Strangeland” (1998) and was a prominent and striking figure on the theatrical poster and video cover, making her face (albeit with sewn together lips) more familiar to the moviegoing public. More TV work followed, including recurring parts on two series during the 1998-99 season: ABC’s “Boy Meets World”, as the girl who could inadvertently break up uber-couple Cory (Ben Savage) and Topanga (Danielle Fishel); and as a co-worker of one of the “Guys Like Us” (UPN). She took a supporting turn in the latter network’s TV-movie drama “Dying to Live”, portraying the spunky sidekick of a deceased girl who is exacting justice on her attacker through the help of an angel, before turning in a strong performance in AMC’s miniseries “The Lot” (1999), as June, a young starlet in this fictionalized look at small time Hollywood in 1937.
Next up was a regular role on “Freaks and Geeks”, where Cardellini served as the bridge between the two titular high school outcast factions as new social dropout (and aspiring ‘freak’) Lindsay Weir, the academically gifted sister of awkward freshman (and ‘geek’) Sam Weir (John Daley). Looking to belong somewhere and unsatisfied with her honor student lifestyle, Lindsay takes a walk on the freak side, making friends with intense drummer Bill (Jason Segel) and nihilistic rebel Daniel (James Franco). The series, noted for its realistic portrayal of high school circa 1980, received a great deal of advance buzz, and Cardellini’s sympathetic spot on portrayal of a teenager searching for a place to fit in garnered critical praise and raised her profile considerably. She also gained considerable exposure and popularity with her role as Velma in 2002’s live-action adaptation of “Scooby-Doo” where Cardellini played alongside teen heavyweights Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Matthew Lillard (the cast returned for the 2004 sequel).
As a result of her rising star, she was cast on the venerable NBC medical drama “ER” in 2003 season, playing nurse and free-spirited single mom Simon Taggart, part of the series’ fresh, revitalizing wave of female characters. On the big screen, Cardellini had a supporting role in the oddball “Jiminy Glick in Lalawood” (2005) starring Martin Short as his chubby, doltish entertainment reporter persona, and she was very effective as a small town cocktail waitress who has a heartbreaking romance with the closeted gay ranch hand Ennis (Heath Ledger) in Ang Lee’s sensitive drama “Brokeback Mountain” (2005).
- Also Credited As:
Linda E. Cardellini - Born:
on 06/25/75 in Redwood City, California - Job Titles:
Actor, Singer
Family
- Siblings: has three, older
Significant Others
- Companion: Jason Segal. born 1980; dating as of March 2001; was her co-star on “Freaks and Geeks”
Milestones
- 1985 Started acting at age ten (date approximate)
- 1996 Debut as series regular on the ABC Saturday morning program “Bone Chillers”
- 1997 Appeared in the children’s comedy feature “Good Burger”
- 1997 Guest starred on episodes of “Clueless” (UPN), “Step By Step” (CBS), “Pacific Palisades” and “3rd Rock from the Sun” (both NBC)
- 1998 Featured in the college-set comedy “Dead Man on Campus”, playing the girlfriend of “Freaks and Geeks” co-star Jason Segel
- 1998 Guest starred on an episode of the CBS drama “Promised Land” as a young woman suffering at the hands of an abusive boyfriend
- 1998 Played a victim of internet predator Captain Howdy in the thriller “Dee Snider’s StrangeLand”
- 1999 Had a featured role as a young starlet in the AMC special “The Lot”, a fictionalized look at 1930s Hollywood
- 1999 Starred as Lindsay Weir, an honor student who takes up with the burnout crowd in the 1980s high school set series “Freaks and Geeks” (NBC)
- 1999 Was featured as the deceased main character’s spunky sidekick in the UPN TV-movie “Dying to Live”
- 2002 Cast as Velma in the live-action version of “Scooby-Doo”
- 2003 Joined the NBC drama “ER” as Nurse Samantha ‘Sam’ Taggart
- 2004 Reprised role of Velma in “Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed”
- 2005 Starred opposite Martin Short in the comedy “Jiminy Glick in La La Wood”
- After high school, relocated to Los Angeles in order to pursue film and television work
- Appeared in a recurring role on the ABC sitcom “Boy Meets World” as Lauren, a girl so attractive to main character Cory (Ben Savage), that he questions his longtime relationship with girlfriend Topanga (Danielle Fishel)
- Cast opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in Ang Lee’s “Brokeback Mountain” (lensed 2004)
- Had a recurring role as Jude on the UPN comedy “Guys Like Us”
- Played an old woman in a community theater production of “The Music Man”
- Was a contestant on “The Price Is Right” (CBS) and won a fireplace