The movie starts off with the last scene of the movie first. Dina (Miranda Bailey) is hitch hiking across a deserted highway and then picked up by a driver (Richard Riehle) to whom she tells the story of how she ended up on that road, that day. She starts with her boyfriend Ron (Waylon Payne). Where we zip to a scene
where Dina and Ron are having wild sex in a shabby motel. They speed off leaving no pay for the hotel owner and stealing the room's TV then speed down the road where we see they are living out of their car. Soon enough they find out that Dina has gotten knocked up and they have no way of raising a child. Then we meet Maria (Leonor Varela) and Paul (Jeffery Donavan). A rich yuppie couple living in an up and coming gated community where they live in the model home. Dina and Ron show up 8 months later pregnant. They have made a deal with the rich couple to "adopt" or sell their unborn baby. However, during the visit, where they play an extended game of Pictionary we see that neither couple is who they say they are. Thrills ensue. Paul gets beaten up, Ron gets stabbed, Dina gets locked in a closet, and Maria wants the baby. She will do anything for the baby, even if it means betraying her husband. The film goes from the story to the car ride where Dina tells her story, so one assumes she survives the ordeal. However, the ending is a HUGE surprise, and what we thought was happening really was not. Performances are rock solid. Direction is on par. To gruesome for some in the end I sure, but worth a watch.
July 21, 2009
