It is this fear that compels her to purchase an illegal gun. Nearly a month after her beating Erica is released from the hospital and into a world that she no longer recognizes, a world she once easily breathed in, now paralyzes her with fear. Mercer is an NYPD detective who is trying to nail a man suspected of drug smuggling and murdering his wife while he himself tries to pick up the pieces of a bitter divorce. This investigation serves as the subplot of this film and a key link that will develop between Mercer and Erica Bain. While laying unconscious in the hospital, she is viewed by Detective Mercer ( Terrence Howard) who is in the hospital questioning a young girl about the murder of her mother. The couple is out in the park walking their dog when they are confronted by a group of urban gang members who at first attempt to rob them and then escalate their attack to a brutal beating of the couple which leaves Erica recovering in a hospital bed and her fiancé six feet under. The young couple playfully argue over whether to wait and appease his family by having a more traditional wedding and what shade of off-white their wedding invitations should be, cream or vanilla. In Neil Jordan’s (“The Crying Game,” “Interview with the Vampire”) latest film Academy-Award winning actress Jodie Foster straps on the gun and takes up the iconic role of urban waste disposer.įoster plays radio personality Erica Bain who is an investigative journalist for a nationally syndicated radio show that records the sounds of the “safest, big city.”Įrica is engaged to David (Naveen Andrews) who she lives with in a typical New York apartment just outside of Central Park as the two plan for their upcoming wedding. Ever since Charles Bronson brandished his magnum and became a one-man vengeance machine in the 1974 film “Death Wish” the revenge-killer has become one of the most recognized characters in Hollywood movies.

Erica the brave one