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The Watcher

The Watcher

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 8, 2000

Runtime

1h 36m

Genres

Mystery, Thriller

User Score

51%

Original Title

The Watcher

Production Companies

Universal Pictures, Lewitt / Eberts Productions, Choi / Niami Productions, Driven Productions, Interlight

Director

Joe Charbanic

Budget

$33,000,000

Description

FBI agent Joel Campbell, burnt-out and shell-shocked after years spent chasing serial killers, flees L.A. to begin a new life for himself in Chicago. But five months later, Joel's best laid plans are abruptly cut short when his new hometown becomes the setting for some particularly gruesome murders--murders that could only have been committed by one man: David Allen Griffin. One of Joel's most elusive and cunning nemeses, Griffin has followed his former pursuer to Chicago in order to play a sadistic game of cat and mouse. Taunting Joel with photographs of his intended victims and leaving his crime scenes meticulously free of clues in order to keep the police at bay, Griffin derives as much pleasure out of watching Joel react to every movement as watching his victims die. But when Griffin moves into Joel's inner circle, Joel must quickly find some way to stop him before someone close to him becomes the next one to die.