Michael Sloan. Top credits Director Arthur Allan Seidelman. See more at IMDbPro. Photos Top cast Edit. Arthur Allan Seidelman. More like this. Storyline Edit. One night, a seemingly friendly stranger appears at the door of a secluded house in the woods. He asks a woman living there to use her phone because his car broke down.
Friendly chatter quickly turns into a game of insinuations, implications and accusations. The two seem to know each other somehow and they are playing a bizarre mind game, where the woman gets points for finding holes in the stranger's story. The next day, they meet again in the nearby town and he gives her a lift to her house as their little game continues. It eventually becomes clear that he's suspecting her of murder of her husband, lover and daughter, which she vehemently denies.
Who or what is he, why is he playing this game of accusations with this woman and where is her family or, for that matter, the neighbors or the townspeople? The revelations turn out to be shocking and the stakes of their odd game higher than imaginable. Check, check, and check. The film follows Jacob Harlon Nikolaj Coster-Waldau , acquitting himself well , a family man sent to prison on manslaughter charges after a fatal traffic accident that left his best friend Max Greenfield dead.
As one can reasonably surmise, he quickly falls into a white supremacist prison gang initially for survival but he soon becomes acclimated to the lifestyle or does he? Though he takes plenty of shortcuts, Waugh also provides the audience with just enough information and time so that nothing and no one feels one-dimensional. Waugh also too frequently wants to have his cake and eat it too by portraying Jacob as a vicious criminal and a victim of the prison system and a good guy who somehow still retains his own morality.
This ultimately leads to bloody, half-hearted climaxes that never once have any lasting impact whatsoever. He clearly cares about the verisimilitudinous quality of the prison scenes, particularly the ritualistic aspect of guards un-cuffing prisoners when they enter solitary confinement. Vikram Murthi is a freelance writer and critic currently based out of Chicago, IL. He writes about film and television for RogerEbert. Enjoyed this. Really quite creepy. Rachelle is actually a better actress than i gave her credit for.
She is very convincing as a recently divorced woman who has started over and starts to receive strange phone calls from a woman named Rose who may, or may not be from the past.
Rose was also surprisingly menacing for a character you only see briefly in this, who sounds like a sweet old lady. Very interesting idea for a horror. One of the better ones I have seen in quite some time. Nicki M Super Reviewer. See all Audience reviews. There are no approved quotes yet for this movie.
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This is what " Hidden Figures " — the movie and the term itself — is all about. The story of America's space exploration has been told countless times, in books, documentaries, movies, approached from every possible angle. But the "Hidden Figures" story had, quite literally, never been told until Margot Lee Shetterly wrote her wonderful book. And now our understanding of that well-known event has expanded, and the "hidden figures" have been brought into the light where they belong.
It takes a dedicated researcher to sniff out those stories, since there's no huge fingerprint of research to rely on. Directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher , with script by Thomas who also produced, as well as plays one of the lead roles , "A Call to Spy" is an engrossing and often thrilling spy drama, and a tribute to this courageous and diverse group of women.
The SOE was a secret organization, created in out of necessity, after the fall of France to the Nazis. Suddenly it was impossible to get reliable intel on what was going on across the Channel, and the SOE started recruiting women into the intelligence services. It was thought that women could move around more freely than men in occupied territories. The program's mission was what is referred to, beautifully, as "ungentlemanly warfare," i.
Vera Atkins, a Romanian Jewish immigrant in London, was in charge of the program to recruit capable women from both civilian life and the military. Wireless operators were in high demand, as were women who could speak fluent French. The program got off to a very bumpy start, since they were treading in uncharted waters. The work was hugely dangerous. All of these women risked death, and were given cyanide pills before departing, an option more preferable than falling into the Gestapo's hands.
Many of them were killed or sent to concentration camps. One of the great things about Thomas' script is how it is about the "bumpy start," when the triumphs were few and far between, when all the mistakes were being made, learnings they would use in the future—but at such a huge human cost. The film looks reality in the eye. Her attempts to get a job as a diplomat were dashed for years because of her prosthetic leg, the result of a teenage hunting accident.
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