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Cast
Brent Fidler | ... |
Edgar Allan Poe
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Mackenzie Gray | ... |
John Allan / Old Man
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Richard Keats | ... |
Dr. Moran
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Emily Tennant | ... |
Virginia Poe
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Lisa Langlois | ... |
Jane Stanard
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Alex Diakun | ... |
Joseph Snodgrass
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Alec Willows | ... |
Neilson Poe
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Jerry Rector | ... |
Jos Walker / Reverend
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Shannon Jardine | ... |
Nurse Sarah
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Sarah Deakins | ... |
Aunt Clemm
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Olivia Rameau | ... |
Elizabeth Poe
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Stanley Katz | ... |
Derelict #1 / Police Officer #2
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Michael Sunczyk | ... |
Derelict #2
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Dave Newham | ... |
David Poe
(as David Newman)
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Arjun Shapovalov | ... |
Young Poe
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Jeff Sarsfield | ... |
Police Officer #1
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Bob Bottieri | ... |
John Kennedy
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Janaki Singh | ... |
Mrs. Mary Grove Nichols
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Elizabeth Volpe | ... |
Mrs. Mary Louise Shew
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Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Irina Fidler | ... |
Frances Allan
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Directed by
Brent Fidler | ||
Eric Goldstein |
Written by
Brent Fidler | ... | (screenplay) |
Produced by
Barry Backus | ... | co-producer |
Bob Bottieri | ... | associate producer |
Brent Fidler | ... | executive producer |
Mackenzie Gray | ... | co-producer |
Music by
Tuomas Kantelinen |
Cinematography by
Eric J. Goldstein |
Editing by
Barry Backus |
Production Design by
Bob Bottieri |
Art Direction by
Phil Trumbo |
Set Decoration by
Sebastian Bresser | ... | (as Sebastian Bruski) |
Costume Design by
Sandra J. Blackie |
Makeup Department
Stacey Butterworth | ... | wig master |
Courtney Frey | ... | key makeup artist |
Shimona Henry | ... | assistant makeup artist |
Monica Hynes | ... | assistant makeup artist |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Laurent Piche | ... | first assistant director (as Larry Piché) |
Sound Department
Benjamin MacDonald | ... | sound recordist |
Special Effects by
Sebastian Bresser | ... | special effects technician (as Sebastian Bruski) |
Visual Effects by
Garret Biles | ... | visual effects artist |
Ted Gervan | ... | visual effects coordinator |
Alex Ouzande | ... | visual effects artist |
Paula Requa | ... | visual effects artist |
Kelvin Yee | ... | visual effects artist |
Camera and Electrical Department
Dustin Gadek | ... | gaffer |
Alan MacKinnon | ... | lighting designer |
Dan Rocque | ... | first assistant camera |
Chris Stanley | ... | assistant camera |
Edward Westerhuis | ... | gaffer |
Yukio Yamada | ... | grip |
Animation Department
Calista Antonio | ... | animator |
Wesley Chandler | ... | animator |
Scott Gillies | ... | animator |
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Fey Foster | ... | assistant costume designer |
Music Department
Trevor Doyle | ... | assistant to Tuomas Kantelinen |
Script and Continuity Department
Gabrielle Strong | ... | script supervisor |
Additional Crew
Jordana Meilleur | ... | production assistant |
Laurent Piche | ... | assistant: Mr. Fidler (as Larry Piché) |
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Storyline
Plot Summary |
This character driven film paints a psychological portrait of the great American writer Edgar Allan Poe, exploring the extraordinary life experiences that shaped his fascinating imagination. By weaving through the ethnography of Poe's dreams and nightmares, particularly the dying moments of himself and his loved ones, a complex plot line of past and present intermingles while Poe hovers near death in his hospital bed. We open with Poe lying unconscious in an alleyway in Baltimore. It is October 3, 1849 and the Congressional elections have just ended, and Poe has been discarded into the alley, after being used by a press gang to cast multiple false ballots for a crooked political campaign. Poe is discovered by his cousin Neilson and brought to Washington College Hospital where he remains until his death five days later, which is the focus of the story. In the hospital, Poe floats in and out of consciousness. Various visual cues transport Poe to intense moments in his past which inspired many of his phantasmagorical stories. There is always a connection made between the writing and the experience. For example when Poe's bride Virginia ruptures a throat vessel while playing a harp, The voice-over from Poe's sorrowful "Annabel Lee" underscores. Poe's first impressions of life are those as a backstage theater baby. Young Poe watches in horror as his Mother commits suicide on stage, establishing Poe's and the script's leitmotif of [all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream]. The sub theme of reincarnation plays an important part of the film, as part of the story takes place in modern times where the actor playing Poe in a stage production begins to experience unusual psychic connections to the past, and characters from Poe's life appear in a Jacob's ladder like ripping of reality, causing the actor to lose his sense of self and reality and the veil rends as to who is the real Poe and who is the actor, as both call to each other through the timeless space of consciousness. The mystery reaches a climax with Poe's wife's death timed in sequence with his own demise. (He experienced the death of his Mother, his foster Mother, his foster Father, his first love, his brother, and his wife (all to consumption). Throughout the film, there is a subtle theme of repressed sensuality, that Poe's own emotionally, immature sexuality manifests. Written by brent fidler |
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Taglines | His death was his greatest mystery!! See more » |
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Budget | $1,000,000 (estimated) |