Jewish actor Jake Gyllenhaal delivers an outstanding turn in The Guilty, a Netflix remake of an award winning 2018 Danish crime thriller for which Gyllenhaal acquired the rights. Directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, Olympus Has Fallen) from a screenplay by True Detective writer Nic Pizzolatton, The Guilty features the voices of Ethan Hawke, Riley Keough, Paul Dano and Peter Sarsgaard.
The action takes place over the course of a single morning in a 911 dispatch call centre In Los Angeles, California. Call operator Joe Baylor (Gyllenhaal) is a disgraced cop who’s been placed in his current position whilst awaiting the verdict from a court hearing, which he hopes will clear his name. After receiving a series of distress calls from Emily ( Keough), a woman claiming to have been abducted, Joe goes above and beyond the call of duty to help save the woman form her ordeal.
Joe eventually discovers that nothing is quite as it seems, and comes to the conclusion that facing his own truth is his only option. Elsewhere, Joe’s best friend and former colleague Sgt. Bill Miller (Hawke) is having second thoughts about standing as a character witness for his friend. Christina Vidal (Sneaky Pete) is Sgt. Denise Wade, a stern but fair co-worker doing her best to understand the motivations of an increasingly distressed Joe.
