PANIC ROOM MOVIE

 Panic Room is a 2002 American thriller film directed by David Fincher and written by David Koepp. The film stars Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, Dwight Yoakam, Kristen Stewart, and Patrick Bauchau. The story concerns a mother and daughter taking refuge in a safe room during a break-in of their home by three armed robbers who are after millions of dollars stored in a safe.



PLOT

Recently divorced Meg Altman (Foster) and her 11-year-old daughter Sarah (Stewart) have just purchased a four-story townhouse on the upper west side of New York City. The house's previous owner, a reclusive millionaire, has installed an isolated room used to protect the house's occupants from intruders. The "Panic Room" is protected by concrete and steel on all sides, a thick steel door, and an extensive security system with multiple video cameras and a separate phone line. On the night the two move into the home, it is broken into by Junior (Leto), the grandson of the previous owner, Burnham (Whitaker), an employee of the residence's security company, and Raoul (Yoakam), a gunman recruited by Junior. The three are after $3 million in bearer bonds, which are locked inside a floor safe in the panic room.
After discovering that the Altmans have already moved in, Junior convinces a reluctant Burnham, who assumed the house was unoccupied, to continue with the heist. During the robbery, Meg wakes up and happens to see the intruders on the video monitors in the panic room. Before the three can reach her, she wakes Sarah, and they run to the panic room and close the door behind them, only to find the telephone is inoperative.
Intending to force the two out of the room, Burnham introduces propane gas into the room's air vents. Unable to seal the vents, Meg ignites the gas while she and Sarah cover themselves with fire-proof blankets, causing an explosion and fire outside the room, while the gas in the room burns off harmlessly and is vented outside.
The Altmans make several attempts to call for help, including signaling a neighbor with a flashlight through the opening of a ventilation pipe, but the neighbor ignores it. Meg then taps into the main telephone line and gets through to her ex-husband Stephen (Bauchau) before the burglars cut them off. Sarah, who has Hypoglycemia, suffers a seizure; her emergency Glucagon syringe being in a refrigerator outside the panic room.
When all attempts to get into the room fail, Junior lets slip that there is much more money in the safe than he let on, and gives up on the robbery. About to leave the house, he is shot by Raoul, who forces Burnham, at gunpoint, to finish the robbery. Stephen arrives at the home and is taken hostage by Burnham and Raoul—who severely beats him. After using an unconscious Altman to trick Meg into momentarily leaving the panic room, Burnham enters it, finding Sarah motionless on the floor. After retrieving the syringe for Sarah, Meg struggles briefly with Raoul, who is thrown into the panic room, his gun knocked out of his hand. As Meg throws the syringe into the panic room, Burnham frantically locks himself, Raoul, and Sarah inside, crushing Raoul's hand in the sliding steel door. Meg, now with the gun, begs the two intruders over the intercom to give Sarah the injection, which Burnham does.
Having earlier received a call from Stephen, two policemen arrive. With Raoul threatening to kill Sarah, Meg lies to the officers and they leave. Meanwhile, Burnham opens the safe and removes the $22 million in bearer bonds inside. As the robbers attempt to leave while using Sarah as a hostage, Meg hits Raoul with a sledgehammer and Burnham flees. After a badly injured Stephen shoots at Raoul and misses, Raoul disables him and prepares to kill Meg with the sledgehammer, but Burnham, upon hearing Sarah's screams, returns to kill Raoul and leaves again. The police, alerted by Meg's suspicious behavior earlier, arrive in force and capture Burnham.
Later, Meg and Sarah, having recovered from their harrowing experience, begin searching the newspaper for a new home.

CAST

• Jodie Foster as Meg Altman
• Kristen Stewart as Sarah Altman
• Forest Whitaker as Burnham
• Jared Leto as Junior
• Dwight Yoakam as Raoul
• Patrick Bauchau as Stephen Altman
• Ann Magnuson as Lydia Lynch
• Ian Buchanan as Evan Kurlander
• Paul Schulze as Officer Keeney
• Andrew Kevin Walker as Sleepy neighbor

Fincher initially cast Nicole Kidman as Meg Altman, but Kidman sustained a knee injury during the filming of Moulin Rouge! and dropped out.^[1] Kidman was replaced by Jodie Foster, which Fincher said affected the film's tone.^[2] He said, "Nicole Kidman makes you make a different movie. It's like Hitchcock casting Grace Kelly. It's about glamour and physicality. With Jodie Foster it's more about what happens in her eyes. It's more political. Jodie is someone who has spent 35 years making choices that define her as a woman and define women in film."