One To Watch:
Keane

September 9

Premiere, October 2004

When writer-director Lodge Kerrigan's daughter was younger, she used to run off down the aisles of their local pharmacy. "When I couldn't find her right away, my heart would drop in my stomach," he says. "Of course, eventually I'd find her. But that initial visceral reaction and panic was the impetus to make Keane, to examine what it would be like to go through the loss of a child." Damian Lewis (TV's Band of Brothers) gives a riveting performance as William Keane, a grief-stricken, increasingly disturbed man who haunts NYC's Port Authority Bus Terminal to find clues about his child's abduction -- and forms an unsettling bond with the daughter of a woman staying at the same New Jersey motel. Kerrigan (Clean, Shaven) filmed in the Port Authority -- no small feat, given the movie's long takes. "Let's say, three minutes into it, a bus arrives and fifty people pour out, and someone says, 'Are you shooting a movie?' We'd go back to zero," he says. "But shooting there was intense. I'd do it again in a heartbeat." (Magnolia)