It's clear to Michelle that her father needs round the clock care, as he's in the early stages of Alzheimer's. He periodically schedules "drills" which includes such things as attacks on his home where a masked man (actually his friend Marc) uses his maid as a human shield. His doctor (Elizondo) prescribes medication for him that he won't take. When he goes out in the car with his daughter Michelle (Joy Kilpatrick), he is heavily disguised and lying on the floor in the back seat. In his bed is a dummy version of him, while he sleeps in another area he has a room full of computer monitors which track what's happening on his property, monitors conversations, and he seems to always be signing into something top secret. Now retired, he lives as if he is about to be killed any second. ![]() Stewart plays Mace Sowell, a former operative for the DIA (not CIA as he's quick to point out) - the Defense Intelligence Agency. "Safe House" from 1998 stars Patrick Stewart, Kimberly Williams, and Hector Elizondo. ![]() I recommend this to fans of thrillers, especially fans that are fond of conspiracy theories and paranoia in thrillers. All in all, a great thriller about paranoia. The consistent paranoia, the various intense scenes that are easily explained once they're over, the overall mood of the film, it all leads up to an exciting climax that only few will be able to figure out until it happens. The acting is great, both by Patrick Stewart and Kimberly Williams. The film delivers a great sense of paranoia all the way through. The plot is great, the idea is quite original, and the movie moves along at a great pace every scene has some development in the plot, and often it also has some great humor. Meanwhile, he also discovers that he's slowly developing Alzheimer's Disease, which only makes things worse. He regularly runs 'drills' in order to keep himself prepared for any direct strike on his house. His daughter doesn't think that he is in danger, instead, she just thinks he's getting senile, or maybe he's just paranoid. Mace Sowell, an ex-military officer from a covert operations team no one knows about, is confined to his home, because he fears for his life. When you think you're being watched, your every move being documented, your every action recorded and analyzed. ![]() Sign up for Entertainment Weekly's free daily newsletter to get breaking TV news, exclusive first looks, recaps, reviews, interviews with your favorite stars, and more.This is a film about paranoia. 'They wanted to see what you looked like without the hairpiece. "When the door closed, Joy began jumping up and down gleefully," he continues. ![]() "But all they did was thank me once more, wish me a good day, and take off," Stewart writes, noting that by this point his hairstylist Joy had snatched his wig. The revered thespian isn't sure if his "hairpiece flew first class" but it had arrived by the following day from London and and so he "drove back to LAX to retrieve it." The bewigged Stewart was then only asked to perform one scene before he was dismissed, so when the execs dropped his dressing room afterwards, he thought, "Shit, here comes the bad news." "Sheila diligently retrieved my 'audition wig' from its space in my wardrobe and boxed it up, whereupon a British Airways representative collected it and placed it on a later flight to Los Angeles," he continues. "Right as I was boarding my plane at Heathrow, my London agent called Sheila at home and notified her that the Paramount people had been in touch, asking if I owned a hairpiece, and if I did, could I bring it to the audition?" Stewart writes. Paramount Pictures/Everett Patrick Stewart
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