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Goodbye Honey
USA 2020
produced by Josh Michaels, Todd Rawiszer, Max Strand for Examine Dots Pictures
directed by Max Strand
starring Pamela Jayne Morgan, Juliette Alice Gobin, Paul C. Kelly, Rafe Soule, Jake Laurence, Peyton Michelle Edwards, Keara Benton, Stacey Van Gorder, Aaron Mitchell
written by Max Strand, Todd Rawiszer, music by Infinity Shred
review by Mike Haberfelner
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All truck driver Dawn (Pamela Jayne Morgan) wants is to catch a couple
of hours of shut-eye before she delivers some moving boxes to a rich guy's
new home early next morning, which is why she parks her truck in a
God-forsaken state park where nobody's around to disturb her - until
somebody is, Phoebe (Juliette Alice Gobin), a majorly distressed girl in
her early twenties who claims she has just escaped captivity and demands
Dawn to call the police and even more importantly make a getaway. Dawn is
less than convinced that Phoebe's not borderline crazy, and the two get
into an argument during which Dawn's phone breaks and she loses her car
keys. Then two punks (Rafe Soule, Jake Laurence) appear on the scene, and
when Dawn confronts them they humiliate her to the point where they almost
use violence, but she manages to chase them away. Now she believes Phoebe
- thing is though, the punks were not the ones who held her in captivity.
Now Phoebe relates her story: Back when still in her teenage years, she
and her friends Whitney (Keara Benton) and Allison (Peyton Michelle
Edwards) wanted to play a fairly harmless prank on Whitney's dad (Paul C.
Kelley) - a prank that ended with him shooting Whitney dead believing her
to be a burglar. Now in his self-righteous reasoning, he made Phoebe and
Allison responsible for her dead rather than himself shooting a person in
the back in cold blood, and thus took them captives and eventually killed
Allison even. Phoebe eventually got away, but she's sure her captor's
still after her - and as it turns out, it's actually his furniture that
Dawn is hauling ... Given this film's straightforward premise
and very limited locations, this is a very tense thriller that seems to be
able to surprise throughout. And of course, some of the movie's
coincidences are a little contrived upon closer inspection, but while
watching that actually only adds to the suspense, plus the movie moves
swiftly enough for slight leaps of reason to not really matter. Plus the
performances all feel very real for this one to get under your skin - in
exactly the fashion a film like this ought to.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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