Fatal Reunion (2005) (V)

Director:

George Erschbamer

Writers:

Jeff Barmash (writer)
George Erschbamer (writer)
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Release Date:

4 November 2006 (Spain)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

Eleniak is a housewife, unhappy in her marriage, who decides to "spice it up" a little bit. But she gets more than she bargained for when she contacts an old high school classmate she once had a crush on. |

Plot Keywords:

Animal In Cast Credits | Impalement | Classmate | Reunion | Stalker

Cast

Erika Eleniak	...	Jessica Hartley Landers
David Millbern	...	Russell Landers
Michael Bergin	...	Marcus Declan
Juliet Landau	...	Lisa Calders
Ashley Hale	...	Katie Landers
Nathan Tipple	...	Joshua Landers
Barbara Fixx	...	Rosemary
Lucia Walters	...	Claire
Sonya Salomaa	...	Lynne
Kwesi Ameyaw	...	Sam Watson
Debbie Podowski	...	Callie (as Deb Podowski)
Lee Jay Bamberry	...	Jason - Security
Stephen Chang	...	Kendo Master (as Stephen M.D. Chang)
Michael St. John Smith	...	John Slayter
Anne Openshaw	...	Nicole Kingsley
Nicola Crosbie	...	Female Reporter
Michelle Harrison	...	Samantha Banton
Stellina Rusich	...	Michelle Lorianna
Frank Cassini	...	Officer Davies
Philip Granger	...	Detective Weber
Nels Lennarson	...	Officer Jones
Lucy	...	Buddy

Directed by
George Erschbamer

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Jeff Barmash		writer
George Erschbamer		writer
Barbara Fixx		writer

Produced by
Stanton W. Kamens	....	executive producer
James Shavick	....	executive producer: Shavick Entertainment
Kirk Shaw	....	executive producer: Insight Film
Orrin Stroll	....	co-producer: Shavick Entertainment

Original Music by
Bill Buckingham
Ronnie Way

Cinematography by
C. Kim Miles		(director of photography)
Ron Precious

Casting by
Blair Law

Production Design by
James Purvis		(as Jim Purvis)

Set Decoration by
Elizabeth McKinnon

Costume Design by
Maggie Bill

Makeup Department
Debi Lelievre	....	key makeup artist
Tana Lynn Moldovanos	....	key makeup artist
Ariella Winberg	....	assistant makeup artist

Production Management
Tia Buhl	....	unit production manager
Andrew Ferns	....	production manager
Todd Giroux	....	co-post-production supervisor
Janet Kendrick	....	post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Arlene L. Arnold	....	first assistant director
Eunice Choi	....	trainee assistant director
Deborah Dimitroff	....	second assistant director
Julie Hemmerling	....	third assistant director

Art Department
Luke Detheridge	....	set dresser
Max Feldman	....	assistant art director
Christopher A.R. Lowe	....	set dresser
Nathalie Morin	....	key set decorator
Susan Tilhonen	....	set dresser

Sound Department
Tricia Boer	....	sound mixer
Wendy Czajkowsky	....	adr mixer
Shawn Miller	....	boom operator
Alan Perkins	....	dialogue editor

Special Effects by
David Barkes	....	pyrotechnician
Paul Benjamin	....	special effects coordinator
Brant McIlroy	....	assistant special effects coordinator

Visual Effects by
Russ Dionne	....	digital artist: onset playback

Stunts
Ed Anders	....	stunt coordinator
Crystal Dalman	....	stunt double
Kylie Furneaux	....	stunt double

Camera and Electrical Department
Dan Abelson	....	key grip
Ed Araquel	....	still photographer
Bill Baxter	....	gaffer
Simon Bayley	....	electrician (as Simon Bailey)
Simon Bayley	....	lamp operator
Jeff Cassidy	....	second assistant camera: "a" camera
Melody Chan	....	camera trainee
Ian Gariepy	....	dolly grip
Steve Gilmour	....	best boy grip
Jeff Grimshire	....	grip
Shannon Kohli	....	electrician
Lee Mills	....	electrician
Gord Phillips	....	grip
Ron Precious	....	director of photography: second unit
Ryan Purcell	....	camera operator: "a" camera
Ryan Purcell	....	steadicam operator
Brian Scholz	....	camera operator: "b" camera
Brian Scholz	....	focus puller
Robert E. Simpson	....	first assistant camera: "a" camera
Wolfgang Suk	....	best boy electric
Marie-Helene Tremblay	....	assistant camera
Trent Wiltse	....	generator operator

Editorial Department
Sarah Hedar	....	assistant editor
B.F. Painter	....	post-production coordinator

Transportation Department
Ron Aimer	....	driver: cast
Richard Chilton	....	transportation coordinator
Louie Hausner	....	transportation captain
Vince Morden	....	driver: cable truck

Other crew
Tyrel Hansen	....	production assistant
Krista Johnston	....	clearance
Tony Kent	....	assistant production coordinator
Jarod McCullough	....	security coordinator
Wendy McKernon	....	production associate
Sandra Montgomery	....	script supervisor
Mike Sandyke	....	craft service
Mike Sandyke	....	first aid
Laura Toplass	....	second assistant production coordinator
Annie Wilkinson	....	set tutor
Steve Woodley	....	head dog trainer

Production Companies

• Insight Film Studios
• Insight Films
• Shavick Entertainment

Distributors

• Lifetime Television (2005) (USA) (TV)
• Regent Entertainment (2005) (USA) (DVD)

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

USA:TV-14

Filming Locations:

Langley, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Insight Film Studios

Could anyone care less?

On occasion, even the big mega-buck films, with A-list stars and 9-figure budgets, have to contain ridiculously silly omissions to further the plot.

But it seems that these "Lifetime," stories, with far from A-list-staffed personnel, do this about 95% of the time.

Here, about a hundred or so words of clarification and conversation between the two leads could have precluded all of this nonsense. Of course, then the contact between Laura and her sociopathic former classmate would have been precluded, and the story would have ended after 15 minutes or so. Incidentally, if this had occurred, and they would have just shown a test pattern for the last 100 minutes, it would have been about as entertaining.

Russell is a hard-working ad executive/husband, and wife Jessica feels he's cheating from things she has heard, from her stilted observations, and inferences drawn from his erratic, often late work schedule.

But for cripes sake, a one-minute conversation between them, and the fore-mentioned 100 words, could have informed her of the fact that he was on the verge of concluding a deal which would have them all set for life, necessitating long hours and occasioning dining with an attractive woman (about which she'd heard from one of her equally-shallow friends).

Even this vacuous woman should have understood that. Hubby could have offered a few words of explanation of his own volition, but frankly, the hot -shot ad exec pretty much matched her in the "vacuous" department.

So enter the sociopathic former classmate, and his equally (or more) sociopathic companion, and you now have twice the number of vacuous personages on-screen, a story which a challenged 12-year-old could predict, and a whole slew of characters about whom one couldn't care less.

(Incidentally, after Jessica initially meets Marcus, and he - purporting to be a big-deal real estate mogul, invites her to dinner - where she chortles about this upcoming assignation with her friends, the dialog here is something which would make the conversations among the nerdy teens in the old beach blanket flicks seem like something highly-intellectual by comparison. And the inevitable brandishing of various weaponry at the conclusion could have been culled from any number of Lifetime "sociopath-menaces-innocent-family" past presentations.)