The Eavesdropper (2004)

Boring

A different way of telling a story

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

**SPOILERS** Surviving a brutal mugging where her husband was killed and she left totally deaf from the gunfire Liza Raines', Lucy Jenner, life went into a downward spiral. It's when it was decided to experiment on Liza's deafness by implanting a number of revitalized cells into her inner ear that she miraculously regained her hearing. This soon became a curse more then a blessing for Liza.These secret ear experiments conducted by Doctors Kramer & Hsieh, John De Lancie & George Takei, did in fact improve or cure their patients loss of hearing but also drove them both insane and suicidal. In fact of the 15 persons who were treated by the two doctors 14 of them ended up dead within the first three weeks with only patient #14 Liza Raines being the only one who survived!Not only did Liza survive with her hearing and health in tact but was able to not only hear what people say but what they think as well! Something that the top Washington D.C CIA Administrator Aiden Porter, Costas Madylon, became very interested in and wanted to have Liza put under his control.As we soon see Porter wasn't at all interested in the national security of the United States but the personal security of his himself and his job. Porter wants Liza to read the minds of his superiors like Let. Gen Geroge Humes, Tucker Smallwood, and use what dirty secrets that they have to blackmail them. This leads in Porter's finding out through Liza the thoughts and actions, in him being a pedophile, of a newly nominated Supreme Court judge who was going to vote against funding his agency. This not only forced the judge to withdrawal his nomination for the the Supreme Court but to hang himself in his garage!It's later when Liza realizes what her boss Aiden Porter is up to in using her unique ability to farther his own power in government, to both blackmail and murder, that she started to use them against him. That's in exposing Porter's plans in him becoming the power behind the President and the Congress in running the country anonymously and without being challenged by the election process. But before Liza can do that she has to prevent Porter from murdering her, like he already did Doctors Kramer & Hsieh, in order to prevent Liza from bringing the truth out about him and his diabolical future plans to the public!

Contrary to the previous reviewer, it is precisely the fact that you have to constantly hear multiple streams of thought of a few people at the same time, and decide what is "noise" and what is "important" what made this movie most interesting and enjoyable for me.It is a psychological experience that is exactly the opposite of what you normally do all day long... paying attention to the one stimulus that you already know is important in the given situation while what is not important automagically gets filtered out by your senses.For a layperson (regarding the complex machinery of your senses) this movie gives you a "hands on" way of appreciating the valuable work your senses do for you all the time, filtering out irrelevant information for you. Even if you are acquainted with the science behind the senses, this movie shows you how you probably would go insane if this filtering were not part of our makeup.

I absolutely LOVED this movie. I just finished watching it on TV and it was great. The storyline was excellent. The ending left me wanting to watch more and see what happens though. Another movie should be made to let me (and others) know what happens to these people. To the makers of this movie - GREAT JOB!!! Keep making movies like this. The idea of people being out there that can actually do this is a little scary. It will make me wonder if anything I THINK is private. It would be very interesting to be able to do this - not necessarily on a regular basis, but on an as needed basis.It would help to know who is lying and who isn't. It could be a potential dangerous thing as well as a beneficial thing.

Patient 14 is a pretty good movie about a woman (Lucy Jenner) who becomes deaf after a tragic circumstance. She undergoes an experiment covertly sponsored by the government to regain her hearing, and she does. The only problem is now she can hear so well that she can hear sounds no one else can including the thoughts of other people! What happens next changes her life dramatically.Jenner is very good and convincing as a newly deaf woman upset and frustrated with having just lost her hearing. John York does an excellent job as the social worker and there is fun chemistry between the two of them. Patient 14 premiered on Lifetime last night. I recommend it if you happen to see it.