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Deadline (2009) -- Alice, 32, a writer recovering from a psychological breakdown retreats to a remote Victorian house to convalesce and focus on finishing her screenplay in time for a fast approaching deadline. Shortly after her arrival, mysterious noises and strange happenings cause her imagination to run wild, sending her on a twisting and terrifying pursuit to find out what is behind the endless mind games. Frightened but intrigued, Alice gathers the courage to go down into the cold, dingy attic where she finds a shoe box filled with mini-dv tapes. The terrifying secret that lies within the tapes will unravel Alice's dark past.
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Sean McConville (written by)
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A screenwriter who travels to an abandoned house to finish a script on time, but a series of strange events lead her to a psychological breakdown. full summary | add synopsis
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Brittany Murphy ... Alice Evans

Thora Birch ... Lucy Woods
Tammy Blanchard ... Rebecca

Marc Blucas ... David Woods
Claudia Troll ... David's Mother
Michael Piscitelli ... Ben (voice)
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Germany:89 min (European Film Market)
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Ending bombs out, 31 October 2009
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Author: JailLess1-1 from United States

+Starts off with good potentials to be a great thriller but it bombed out midway. They should have kept it on the realistic side but it started losing its grip when the director started chopping scenes & than putting to much on it. It caused the plot to become chaotic, confusing & so unrealistic. Brit suspects someone else is in the house so she goes looking around sometime after midnight. Next were looking at an intense scene with Brit scoping out a small dark rm, than the audio goes sky high at the fall of a chair, making us jump out our seats. The scene abruptly ends & now were looking at Brit in bed waking up on a bright sunny morning like nothing happened. Why few directors like shooting those types of scenes is beyond me when those are the movies that flop. They had a good, unique storyline with a good killer twist but messed that up at the very end when they suddenly attempted to take it in a "LAME" & senseless direction. I guess it was meant to be a 2nd out-the-blue killer twist at the end but instead it left everyone moaning in disappointment, complaining about how weak the movie was, etc, etc. It would have been a half a-- decent story-line if they would have showed the killer's body proving that Brit's character was telling the truth, which was the original twist. Like I said, the film had potentials to be a good thriller w/ great acting but completely flopped due to the script+ +

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