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The Big Take
USA 2018
produced by Jen Gatien, Riaz Tyab (executive) for Federal Pictures, Deerjen Films
directed by Justin Daly
starring James McCaffrey, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Zoë Bell, Robert Forster, Dan Hedaya, Bill Sage, Oksana Lada, Slate Holmgren, Tara Westwood, John Enos III, Joslyn Jensen, Taylor Black, Nick Daly, Matthew Kehoe, Sean David Morton, Mj Rodriguez
written by Justin Daly
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Big time moviestar Douglas Brown's (James McCaffrey) drink is drugged
during a business meeting, he has a blackout and ... the next day he's
blackmailed by a person unknown to him, because while he can't remember
what went on, there is security camera footage - and it's not good,
career-endingly bad in fact. So he and his manager Jack Girardi (Bill
Sage) hire Frank Manascalpo (Dan Hedaya), an ex police detective known to
"fix" things. Now he soon comes up with a logical suspect, Max
O'Leary (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) - but when he shows up at O'Leary's place to
force him to hand over the hard drive containing the compromising
material, O'Leary's very capable Ukranian wife Oksana (Oksana Lada) chases
him off. Max O'Leary is a small fry screenwriter who desparately tries
to get his latest script made, and he thinks Douglas Brown is involved
with financing ... but he has got no idea about the whole blackmailing
business, in fact, that was all his friend wannabe-producer Vic's (Slate
Holmgren) doing, who told him Douglas Brown is a silent investor - and now
Max thinks Brown is trying to shoot down his project for personal reasons,
and even gets police detective Aborn (Robert Foster) involved - who soon
starts to lose it a bit because he can't make head or tails out of Max's
story. In the meantime, Frank hires his ex Edie (Zoe Bell), a professional
thief, to ransack Max's place to retrieve the hard drive - but when she
hears what the story is all about, she decides to take matters into her
own hands, and things get only messier from there ... A very
nice little Hollywood-thriller with shades of film noir and plenty of
(self-)irony, this is a very slickly filmed and directed movie carried by
a first rate cast - but what really makes the thing is its
wonderful script that's full of surprises and unexpected twists and turns,
and yet it tells its story stringently and is peopled with well fleshed
out and very relatable characters, making this a pure joy to watch.
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
Out now from Amazon!!! |
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