Keane (2004)

Director:

Lodge Kerrigan

Writer:

Lodge Kerrigan (writer)

Release Date:

21 September 2005 (France)

Genre:

Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

A man in his early 30s (Keane) struggles with the supposed loss of his daughter from port authority bus terminal in New York...

Plot Keywords:

Bus | Port Authority Bus Terminal | Schizophrenia | Bowling | Male Female Relationship

Awards:

2 wins & 4 nominations

Cast

Damian Lewis	...	William Keane
Abigail Breslin	...	Kira Bedik
Amy Ryan	...	Lynn Bedik
Liza Colón-Zayas	...	1st Ticket Agent
John Tormey	...	2nd Ticket Agent
Brenda Denmark	...	Commuter
Ed Wheeler	...	1st Bus Driver / Ticket Taker
Christopher Evan Welch	...	Motel Clerk
Yvette Mercedes	...	Woman in Department Store
Chris Bauer	...	Bartender
Lev Gorn	...	Drug Dealer
Frank Wood	...	Assaulted Commuter
Alexander Robert Scott	...	1st Cab Driver
Phil McGlaston	...	2nd Cab Driver
Tina Holmes	...	Michelle

Also Known As:

Untitled Lodge Kerrigan Project (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for a scene of strong sexuality, drug use and language.

Runtime:

USA:100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Australia:MA | Netherlands:12 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Canary Films

Trivia:

Shot in 32 days for less than $1 million.

Quotes:

Kira Bedik: Are you going to be my mommy's new boyfriend?

Movie Connections:

Featured in 2006 Independent Spirit Awards (2006) (TV)

A tour-de-force

I finally got to see this film last night at LFF in London, and it has been more than worth the wait.

The moments between relative lucidity and mental anguish of William Keane are forcefully explored and successfully displayed by the joint work of Lodge Kerrigan's in-yer-face directing coupled with Damian Lewis' profoundly poignant interpretation of a man clinging precariously on the edge of some kind of sanity and not always succeeding as he knows he should.

I have never encountered such a long period of total and absolute quiet at the end of the film as I did at the end of Keane: the collective breath-holding was incredible.

Chilling, yet strangely warm, this film left me with more questions than answers and an empathy towards the character and the subject of mental illness as a whole than I have ever experienced. It simply has never been something I have concerned myself with. If this is what Lodge Kerrigan set out to achieve, he has more than accomplished it to my mind.

An important film that is a tour-de-force for both Lodge Kerrigan's tight direction and Damian Lewis' craft as an actor.

Go see it if you can. Lobby your local cinema to show it if necessary, but see it.