D-Tox (2002) on Netflix
In Seattle, FBI agent Jake Malloy hunts a killer who targets police officers. The killer strikes at his home, and grief and drinking lead him to a Wyoming rehab clinic.
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Plot summary
After a suicide attempt, FBI agent Jake Malloy is signed into a Wyoming rehabilitation clinic by his friend and supervising officer, Agent Chuck Hendricks. The clinic, run by former cop Dr. John "Doc" Mitchell, treats law enforcement officers, and Hendricks remains in Wyoming to see that Malloy is all right. Malloy arrives from Seattle, where he hunted someone who killed police officers. That man called him to say he had held a grudge since Malloy pursued him over a string of prostitute murders, and Mary, Malloy's girlfriend, was killed. Months of heavy drinking followed. At the clinic Malloy meets patients including Peter Noah, Frank Slater and Willie Jones, and staff members Hank and Jenny Munroe. A blizzard seals the clinic off from the outside world.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about D-Tox (2002)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- During the 1999 filming of D-Tox, Sylvester Stallone became attached to another Universal film, the action horror Fatalis, about saber-toothed tigers thawed from an ancient sinkhole that attack Los Angeles; after D-Tox's failure Universal ceased production, and writer Jeff Rovin turned his script into a very successful novel.
- Teamsters met the cast at the airport holding a sign saying DETOX, so that actors like Kris Kristofferson and Tom Berenger looked as if they were going into rehab rather than a film shoot; one of them described celluloid buzzards circling as the film lay dying on the distributor's floor.
- The film was finished in 1999, but every screening of the first cut met a negative reception from test audiences, and Universal shelved it for quite some time while reshoots and story changes were done.
- Composer John Powell wrote two complete scores for the film, one of which was rejected; with the film delayed and relegated to a European release, most of his score was replaced with additional music by William Ross, Geoff Zanelli and Nick Glennie-Smith.
