The Big Empty (1998)

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Former NYU film-school collaborators, director Jack Perez and actor-writer James McManus, made this private-eye tale on a budget of $165,000. Investigator Lloyd Meadows (McManus) is hired by edgy blonde Jane Danforth (Ellen Goldwasser) to track her cheating husband Peter (Pablo Bryan), who works at a homeless shelter -- so Meadows poses as a homeless man to get the truth about Peter on videotape. Shown at the 1997 AFI Los Angeles Film Festival.
  • Rating:
    R
  • Genre:
    Drama
  • Directed By:
    Jack Perez
  • Written By:
    James McManus
  • In Theaters:
     wide
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  • Studio:
    Left of Center Productions

Cast

James McManus
as Lloyd Meadows
Pablo Bryant
as Peter Danforth
Ellen Goldwasser
as Jane Danforth
H.M. Wynant
as McCreadyJ. W.
Tara Agace
Frederick Lawrence

Critic Reviews for The Big Empty

All Critics (4)

A lot of fun, and it has the common courtesy to take a pretty surprising turn in the last act.

Feb 4, 2004 | Full Review…
Planet S Magazine

It's either an ode to the old-style noir genre or it's a barely disguised rip off, and I'm leaning toward the latter.

Feb 4, 2004 | Rating: 62/100
Apollo Guide
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