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Julia Ormond
as Elizabeth Anderson

Bill Pullman
as Sam Hallaway

Pell James
as Bobbi Prescott

Ryan Simpkins
as Stephanie

Cheri Oteri
as Mom

French Stewart
as Officer Jim Conrad

Kent Harper
as Officer Jack Bennett

Michael Ironside
as Captain Billings

Caroline Aaron
as Janet

Anita Smith
as Tina

Hugh Dillon
as Dad (Steven)

Kent Wolkowski
as David

Gill Gayle
as Officer Degrasso

D.R. Haney
as Drug Dealer

David Gane
as Grocery Man

Shannon Jardine
as Elaine Meyer

Charlie Newmark
as Officer Wright

Josh Strait
as Keith

Jennifer Miles
as TV Reporter

Gerald Layton Young
as Coroner

Angela Lamarsh
as Maid

Kyle Biere

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• Nov 17, 2012

  Two FBI agents question witnesses of a brutal slaying. As this film began, I thought it was going to be a post-modern Rashomon -- the same story told from multiple perspectives with the post-modern conception that truth is mutable. David Lynch's daughter at the helm only furthered my suspicions. However, the characters' stories merely serve as diving boards for the director's objective reality, so the film has no post-modern twist or any original concept driving it forward. Lynch uses her father's scare tactics, slow shots of looming devilish figures straight out of a Carl Jung handbook for "scary," but these flourishes bore with over-use. Bill Pullman and Julia Ormond are stolid until the last act, during which they become cartoons. The antics of the police officers and most of the other characters are so outlandish that they defy credulity; even in a small, out-of-the-way town, there's no way these officers could have gotten this far shooting out random travelers' tires and sexually assaulting drivers. Overall, Lynch proves that she's her father's daughter, but she's without his ideas, which makes her a copycat, a poor excuse for the original.
  Jim H Super Reviewer
• Nov 01, 2012

  Brilliant movie, starts off a bit weird but stick with it, it is well worth it.
  Stuart B Super Reviewer
• Jul 11, 2011

  Jennifer Lynch, daughter of the enigmatic David Lynch, delivers a bizarre, twisted, and often humorous film. In classic Lynch style, the point of it all is of course ambiguous. The third act reveal is sloppy and asinine, but that can be said of the entire storyline. The other problem is the unrealistic reactions of the characters involved, i.e. a young woman smiling and making jokes prior to being killed. It's all very weird, but I can't say it wasn't entertaining.
  Jeffrey M Super Reviewer
• Mar 08, 2011

  A superbly shot, casted, and executed film by Jennifer Lynch (daughter of David Lynch). I absolutely love when actors are taken out of their typecast and thrown into a role that is completely opposite. The plot of the film is told in such an original way. Watch the trailer!
  Christopher H Super Reviewer

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