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Frances Stein
USA 2015
produced by P.J. Woodside, Steve Hudgins, James D. Woodside (executive) for Big Biting Pig Productions
directed by P.J. Woodside
starring P.J. Woodside, Scott Cummings, Cody Rogers, Jessica Leonard, Steve Hudgins, T.O.N.E-z, Ruby Sayard Kelly, Felicia Stewart, Vivien Worthen-Powell, Lucy Turner, Alyssa Reisinger, Sean Mooningham, Jessica Dockrey, Grey Hurt, James Gibbs, Janet Corum, Jonathan Humphrey, Rob Miles, Emily Beeny, Todd Martin, Trish Erickson-Martin, Barb Rosner, Timothy Blair, Michael Coon, Tandy Cook, Katii Cook, Tim Heerdink, Natalie Holland, Bailey Mullen Parks, Jordan Livingston Powell, Luke Short, Samantha Shoulders, Traci Spivey, Victoria Klein, Kelley Elder, Robert Villanueva, Jude Roy, Kenneth R. Root, Randy Hardesty
written by P.J. Woodside, music by Lynn Curtis, Neal Rosner
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Dr Frances Stein (P.J. Woodside) has gone missing - and now the faculty
she has worked at really cares about her whereabouts ... oh, not because
they care about her but because Frances has developed a device that allows
one to read brains, but all her files are gone with her. It would mean
lots of gouvernment money, and now the faculty fears she has brought her
knowledge with her to a private corporation. Now thing is, Frances has
acted erratically of late, ever since her own husband Patrick (Scott
Cummings) accused her of fraud regarding her research results to gain
gouvernment funding, then divorced her to marry younger and fitter
scientist Jayne (Jessica Leonard), who seems to do everything to get her
hands on Frances's research for her own progress. Now the only one who
really cares about Frances seems to be her erstwhile assistant Avery (Cody
Rogers), but even he gets corrupted by Jayne when Frances pushes him back
and ultimately breaks into her apartment to steal her laptop and find out
about her whereabouts ... which ultimately makes him the subject of a CIA
interrogator (Steve Hudgins) and his torturer (T.O.N.E-z), who will do
almost everything to get Avery to talk. But there's much more to the story
than just that ... Frances Stein is a very nice little
sci-fi thriller, the premise of which might be a tad far-fetched, but it's
integrated into the story well enough to be utterly believable, and it's
paced well enough to suck the audience into the story, which is less about
the lofty sci-fi concept but about its characters, which are all colourful
and interesting - and well-played mind you. And add to that a directorial
effort that doesn't shy away from the occasionally campy detail but also
is fittingly deceiving to keep the audience guessing until the end, and
you've got yourself a piece of pretty good genre cinema!
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