Jennifer Lopez (OUT OF SIGHT, THE CELL) stars as Sharon Pogue, a rough cop working the South Side of Chicago. Surrounded by men, she holds her own with her taste for beer and flippant remarks. She has a very good reason for being as tough as she is. Ten years prior to the beginning of the story she had her father arrested for beating her mother and brother. An act that seems venerable to us, yet despicable to the family who ignores her.
Catch (James Caviezel of THE THIN RED LINE and FREQUENCY) is actually Steven Lambert, a man so haunted by the death of his son and wife that he has blocked their memory out of his mind. He wanders the streets Sharon patrols doing good deeds for random strangers who don’t appreciate him. One day his good act is for Sharon. She finds herself looking down the barrel of a gun but Catch manages to wrestle the gun away from the perpetrator. And thus begins their love affair.
Drawn to Catch for reasons she doesn’t understand immediately Sharon tries to figure him out. He has no last name. No back story. He doesn’t even have furniture in his apartment. It’s not until they are in a bar together and he jumps on stage and begins playing the trumpet that any truth comes out. The owner of the club approaches Catch after his amazing performance and calls him by his true name. Sharon runs his name in her database and realizes that she’s met him before. Catch was driving the car that slammed into the big rig truck that killed his wife and son. Sharon was the officer to hold his hand until he was taken away in an ambulance.
The plot is not really much of a plot. The screen chemistry between the two main characters is at once bland, and yet their first kiss should make the top ten list of all-time most passionate embraces. This is a character driven story about the inner demons everyday people have to work through to live a normal life. Catch is the main focus as he tries to come to grips with the reality of his now empty life. But Sharon’s story is so much more interesting.
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