High Noon (2009) (TV)

Director:

Peter Markle

Writers (WGA):

Terri Kopp (teleplay)
Nora Roberts (novel)

Release Date:

4 April 2009 (USA)

Genre:

Thriller

Plot:

Expert hostage negotiator Lieutenant Phoebe McNamara juggles her high-pressure career with the demands of raising her young daughter and contending with her agoraphobic mother, Essie.

Plot Keywords:

Hostage Negotiator | Hostage | Police | Mother Son Relationship | Bruise

Cast

Emilie de Ravin	...	Lt. Phoebe McNamara
Ivan Sergei	...	Duncan Swift
Brian Markinson	...	Cpt. David McVee
Ty Olsson	...	Dennis Walken
Cybill Shepherd	...	Essie McNamara
Olivia Cheng	...	Det. Liz Alberta
Patrick Sabongui	...	Arnie Meeks
Savanna Carlson	...	Carly McNamara
Biski Gugushe	...	Phin
Peter Benson	...	Roy Squires
Tom Carey	...	Joe Ryder
Simeon Taole	...	Razz
Norma Lewis	...	Opal
David Lereaney	...	Mark D
Joe Norman Shaw	...	Attorney Bernard Jones
Terry Lawrence	...	Commander Nate Harrison
Michele Bogdanow	...	Glynis
Hamish Boyd	...	Grady
David Haysom	...	Officer Dallon
Ashley Alexander	...	Annie Utz (as Ashley Chomik)
Janelle Cooper	...	Louise 'Loo' Hector
Chris Aanderson	...	Detective 'Bull' Sykes
Brent Woolsey	...	Security Guard
Les Mcdonald	...	Swat
Kirk Heuser	...	Reporter
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
BJ Harrison	...	Maa Bee
Katherine Bennett	...	Hostage / Jewellery store clerk (uncredited)
Yan Joseph	...	Rasses Boy #1 (uncredited)
Daman Malone	...	Lawyer #1 (uncredited)

Directed by
Peter Markle

Writing credits (WGA)
Terri Kopp		(teleplay)
Nora Roberts		(novel)

Produced by
Tom Cox	....	co-producer
Stephanie Germain	....	executive producer
Peter Guber	....	executive producer
Michelle Hastings	....	associate producer
Salli Newman	....	producer
Murray Ord	....	co-producer
Jordy Randall	....	co-producer
Peter E. Strauss	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Stuart Michael Thomas

Cinematography by
Joel Ransom		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Michael Ruscio

Casting by
Susan Glicksman

Production Design by
Eric Fraser
Myron Hyrak

Set Decoration by
Sean Blackie

Costume Design by
Christopher Hargadon

Makeup Department
Laura Demoissac	....	key hair stylist (as Laura De Moissac)
Joanne Jacobsen	....	makeup department head
Eva McKenzie	....	assistant hair stylist

Production Management
Nancy Kirhoffer	....	post-production supervisor
Brian Leslie Parker	....	unit production manager
Felix Schröder	....	post-production manager
David Townsend	....	post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Lorie Gibson	....	third assistant director
Michael Johnson	....	first assistant director
Sebastian A. Salazar	....	trainee assistant director
Marcel Saumure	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Jackie Bagley	....	assistant art director
Dean Goodine	....	property master
Amber Humphries	....	assistant set decorator
Tom Johnson	....	paint coordinator
Corinna Johnston	....	scenic painter
Jürgen Lutze	....	construction coordinator
James Weeks	....	head greens coordinator
Jordy Wihak	....	assistant property master

Sound Department
Tim Chilton	....	foley artist
Bob Costanza	....	sound effects editor
Romain Drouillon	....	french dubbing mixer
Jason Gaya	....	adr mixer
Devon Heffley Curry	....	adr supervisor
Joseph Melody	....	sound supervisor
Kevin Meltcher	....	assistant sound editor
Terry O'Bright	....	sound re-recording mixer
Michael Playfair	....	sound mixer
Michael Playfair	....	sound recordist
Keith Rogers	....	sound re-recording mixer
David Torres	....	foley mixer
Kelly Zombor	....	boom operator

Special Effects by
Kelly Coe	....	special effects assistant
James Paradis	....	special effects coordinator
Maurice Routly	....	special effects best boy

Stunts
Brent Woolsey	....	stunt coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department
John Adshead	....	key grip
Chris Alexander	....	b dolly grip
Mark Cooper	....	first assistant camera: 'a' camera
Jordan Easton	....	lighting technician
Greg Fullalove	....	best boy grip
Dale H. Jahraus	....	camera operator: 'b' camera (as Dale Jahraus)
Mike Kolafa	....	gaffer
Mick Lipohar	....	first assistant camera: 'b' camera
Marty McInally	....	camera operator: 'a' camera
Tim Milligan	....	dolly grip
Dan Power	....	still photographer
Lee Smith	....	best boy electric
Landin Walsh	....	generator operator

Casting Department
Damian Barret	....	casting assistant (as Damian Ambach)
Candice Elzinga	....	casting director: Canada
Rhonda Fisekci		(casting director: Canada
Alyson Lockwood	....	extras casting
Martina Smyth	....	casting: Canada

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Devora Brown	....	costume set supervisor
Shelly Goldsack	....	costume buyer
Margaret Perry	....	assistant costume designer

Editorial Department
Richard Lowe	....	post-production assistant
Debra F. Simone	....	assistant editor (as Debra Simone)
Benjamin Wiser	....	post-production assistant

Music Department
Todd Haberman	....	composer: additional music
James Newton Howard	....	score producer
Tom Trafalski	....	music editor

Transportation Department
Coleman Robinson	....	transportation coordinator
Dean Robinson	....	transportation captain
Doug Slupski	....	driver: hair/make up/ wardrobe

Other crew
Fareed Abdelhak	....	assistant: producers
Fareed Abdelhak	....	clearances coordinator: Calgary
Bob Bedard	....	head chef
Cheryl Brauer	....	assistant production coordinator (as Cheryl Bauer)
Stephen G.D. Chin	....	assistant: director
Stacey Douglas	....	trainee production coordinator
Kim Goddard-Rains	....	production coordinator
Mel Green	....	production assistant
Tara Howie	....	second assistant accountant
George Lakes	....	production controller
Julianne Larson	....	production assistant
Cameron Macgowan	....	assistant to the co-producer
Marion Milner	....	script supervisor
Marr Morgan	....	production accountant
Merlind Mueller	....	pre-sales manager
Matthias Nitschke	....	business affairs
Samantha Nottingham-Carew	....	first assistant accountant
Ben Owens	....	location manager
Nora Roberts	....	consultant
'Little' Eddie Rochfort	....	trainee location manager
Donna Serafinus	....	business & legal affairs
Barbara Unrau	....	first assistant accountant: payroll
William Wagner	....	assistant location manager
Matt Watterworth	....	business affairs coordinator

Production Companies

• Mandalay Television
• Stephanie Germain Productions
• Alberta Film Entertainment (co-production)
• Tandem Communications
• Alberta Film Development Program of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, The (with the assistance of)

Distributors

• Lifetime Movie Network (2009) (USA) (TV)
• Tandem Communications (2009) (non-USA) (all media)
• Atlantic Film (2010) (Finland) (DVD)
• Dutch FilmWorks (DFW) (2010) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Falcon Films (2009) (Lebanon) (all media) (Middle East)
• Lifetime Television (2009) (worldwide) (TV)
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2009) (Canada) (DVD)
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2009) (USA) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Pivotal Post  Avid Editing Equipment Provided By
• Sonic Magic  ADR recording
• William F. White International  grip and lighting equipment

Also Known As:

"Nora Roberts' High Noon" - USA (complete title)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA | Canada | Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

UK:15 (DVD rating) | Netherlands:16 | Australia:M | USA:TV-PG

Filming Locations:

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Company:

Mandalay Television

Goofs:

Continuity: When the mom goes into the kid's room at the beginning of the movie, there is a stuffed lamb that disappears when the shot changes and then reappears in the next scene.

Movie Connections:

References High Noon (1952)

Please don't forsake me O' my Darlin'

**SPOILERS** When hostage negotiator Lt. Phoebe McNamara got under the skin of fellow cop Arnie Meeks on showing him up in how to do his job things started to get hot an heavy between the two flatfoots. This happened when Officer Meeks was on the scene when a hostage taker ended up blowing his brains out before Phoebe, who should have been called earlier by Meeks, had a chance to talk him out of doing it.

Given a 30 day suspension by his boss Lt. Phoebe McNamara Meeks just couldn't help himself in taking it out on her to the point where he attacked Phoebe right in the police station stairway, wearing a ski mask, almost breaking her jaw. It's later that Phoebe is again targeted by some unseen psycho but by then it's obvious that Meeks isn't the guy. It's someone from Phoebe's past who holds her personally responsible for the death, while being held hostage, of someone very near and dear to him.

The film "High Noon" never really takes off with Lt. Phoebe McNamara and her new found boyfriend lottery winner and bar owner Ducan Swift being stalked by an unseen and deranged lunatic all throughout the movie. The guy goes so far as to gun down young hostage taker Charles "Raz" Jackson just as Phoebe was about to have him give himself up to the police just to make her look bad.

Fantasizing himself to be the late actor Gary Cooper, he even insist on being called Cooper by the police, the killer want's to replay the climatic shoot-out scene in the movie "High Noon" with him, as far as I can tell, playing the parts of both the good and bad guys in the film. He's also obsessed with clocks-that dominated the 1952 movie "High Noon"-that he sets his explosives with all to detonate at the 12 O'clock mark! The movie ends with Phoebe going against her better judgment and using, or having her fellow cops use, deadly force in finally putting the killer on ice, in the city morgue, only after he was just about to release the people that he was holding hostage! What shocked me about this is that Phoebe did far worse then what Officer Meeks did, not preventing a hostage holder from killing himself, and what she had him suspended from the force for!

Very uneven crime drama from the pen or typewriter of Nora Roberts with a number of confusing sub-plots, like Phoebe's shut-in mom Essie, that made the film even far more disjointed then it already was it that's at all possible.