You Are Alone (2005)

A dark drama which takes a looks at how far its characters will go to relieve loneliness, even if only for an hour.

Director:

Gorman Bechard

Writers:

Gorman Bechard, Jessica Bohl (additional dialogue)

Stars:

Jessica Bohl, Richard Brundage, Keith Herron

2 wins.

Cast

Credited cast:
Jessica Bohl	...	Daphne / Britney
Richard Brundage	...	Buddy
Keith Herron	...	Priest
Eric Deskin	...	Mr. Wood
Bruce Koken	...	Father
Amy Brienes	...	Sarah
James Ellsworth	...	Harlan
Gail Herendeen	...	Mother
Tate Ellington	...	Mike
Chester Jones III	...	Tyler
John Watson	...	Hotel Duncan clerk
Michael Gilio	...	Sleeping Hotel Duncan guest
Frank Loftus	...	Bachelor party patron
Christopher Jon Gombos	...	Bachelor Party Patron (as Chris Gombos)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Albert Burton	...	Elevator Operator

Storyline

"We're gonna play a game of Snap! Pick a bracelet. Pull it hard!" But it's a game of desperate consequences in YOU ARE ALONE, a dark exploration of just how far a man and a woman will go to escape loneliness, if only for an hour. Daphne, a Yale-bound high school senior whose depression has blurred her sense of reality, works as an escort, advertising her services online. Her next door neighbor catches her as the "entertainment" at his nephew's bachelor party. With her hidden life precariously hanging in the balance, Daphne agrees to spend one hour with her neighbor. Initially confrontational, Daphne and her neighbor begin to shed their bitter layers of personal disappointment and general cynicism by talking about sex. It's eye-opening for her neighbor: BBBJs, dining at the Y, salad tossing, and, of course, Snap! But behind this teenager's jaded fantasies hides the very essence of heartbreak, acceptance, need, and desire...ironically paralleled by a broken man's desperate attempts to ...

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Plot Keywords:

loneliness | snap | teenager | escort | salad tossing | 

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Taglines:

How far would she go to protect her darkest secret?

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Genres:

Drama

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong sexual content including graphic dialogue, and for language

Details

Official Sites:

MySpace site What Were We Thinking Films [us]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

9 June 2005 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Connecticut, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

What Were We Thinking Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

84 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

All of the "escort" tales in the movie are true, based on research director Gorman Bechard did for his novel "Ninth Square".

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Quotes

Buddy: What sort of mood do you have to be in for that?
Daphne: Depressed.
Buddy: And what, being groped by a dozen guys at a bachelor party cheers you up?
Daphne: They're harmless... it's just...
Buddy: What?
Daphne: I know what it's like to be the popular girl for an hour.
Buddy: Daphne...
Daphne: This...
Buddy: Today?
Daphne: All of it, every time... makes me... less invested with life at school, or even at home. It's... mine. Just mine. And because of it I don't have to play the game. I don't have to pretend to be friends with people that I hate. I don't need to ...

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Soundtracks

"Cars and History (I Want You)"
by Strays Don't Sleep

User Reviews

Best movie I've seen all year

If you're tired by the same repetitive, unintelligent material that the mainstream movie industry releases, you'll enjoy "You Are Alone". It is thought provoking, well shot and riveting.

Without revealing anything that you don't find out in the first few minutes of the movie, this is the story of a young white high school girl from an upper middle class environment who is working as an escort and is discovered by her neighbor. The vast majority of the movie occurs in a hotel room where he hired her to come.

Through their discussion, you explore two shifting views of prostitution, depression, loneliness. Yet the movie is not depressing. It talks about dark things without being depressing.

As a viewer, your emotions and preconceived notions are moved around, but gently. You come out of it with a lot to think about. I like that in a movie.