The Big Empty

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Release date: Oct 1, 1998

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Movie Info

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:

Oct 1, 1998 wide
On Disc/Streaming:

Sep 18, 2001
Runtime:

94 minutes
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) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (2)

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…

Jon Popick
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

Ryan Cracknell
Apollo Guide