The Guilty Movie Storyline. LAPD officer Joe Baylor is working the night shift at a 911 call center, which is overwhelmed with calls relating to a large wildfire in the Hollywood Hills. Joe is awaiting trial for an unspecified incident that occurred on shift eight months ago, and expects to return to active duty following a court hearing the following day. Joe fields emergency calls while being hounded by an LA Times reporter asking for a statement about tomorrow’s trial.
Joe receives a call from a young woman named Emily Lighton who cannot talk freely, but Joe deduces that she has been kidnapped and is in the car with her abductor. He learns that they are in a white van on the freeway, but the abductor catches on and Emily hangs up before she can provide any further info. Joe relays the information to CHP, but they are unable to locate the van with such little info.
Joe calls Emily’s home phone number and speaks to her young daughter, Abby, who tells him that Emily was taken by her ex-husband Henry Fisher. He manages to get Henry’s phone number from Abby, and uses it to get the license plate number of the van. He calls CHP to send a patrol car to check on Abby and her baby brother Oliver, and also requests a search of Henry’s apartment, but the latter request is denied due to lack of a warrant.
Joe calls his ex-partner Rick, who is off-duty, and asks him to check on Henry’s house. Rick is supposed to provide witness testimony at Joe’s trial tomorrow, and expresses worry that it won’t go their way. Rick breaks into Henry’s apartment and finds piles of letters and documents; Joe asks him to start searching for any info that can help them deduce where Henry is going. Joe also calls his estranged wife and asks to speak to their daughter, but she is asleep and his wife asks him to stop calling.
Joe receives another call from Abby, and instructs her to answer the door for two LAPD officers performing a wellness check. The officers discover that Abby is covered in blood and her brother Oliver – who she said was “sleeping” – is gravely injured. Joe then calls Emily back and convinces her to pull the handbrake, but it fails to crash the van. He later talks to her in the back of the van, and Emily asks how Oliver is; she reveals that she believed Oliver had “snakes in his stomach” and she “took them out”. Henry stops the car and tries to remove Emily from the back, but she hits him with a brick and runs away.
The Guilty is a 2021 American crime thriller film directed and produced by Antoine Fuqua, from a screenplay by Nic Pizzolatto. A remake of the 2018 Danish film of the same name, the film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Ethan Hawke, Riley Keough, Christina Vidal, Eli Goree, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Paul Dano, and Peter Sarsgaard.
The Guilty had its world premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2021. It was released in a limited release on September 24, 2021, prior to streaming on Netflix on October 1, 2021.
The Guilty (2021)
Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Riva Marker, David Litvak, Gary Michael Walters, David Haring, Michel Litvak, Svetlana Metkina, Antoine Fuqua, Scott Greenberg, Kat Samick, Marlene Forte
Screenplay by: Nic Pizzolatto
Production Design by: Peter Wenham
Cinematography by: Maz Makhani
Film Editing by: Jason Ballantine
Costume Design by: Daniel Orlandi
Set Decoration by: Madelaine Frezza
Art Direction by: Beauchamp Fontaine
Music by: Marcelo Zarvos
MPAA Rating: R for language throughout.
Distributed by: Netflix
Release Date: September 11, 2021 (TIFF), September 24, 2021 (United States)
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