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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Luke Wilson | ... | John Felton | |
| Samuel L. Jackson | ... | Richie | |
| Leslie Bibb | ... | Joanie Felton | |
| Peyton List | ... | Tammy Strate | |
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| Tracie Thoms | ... | Latisha Rogers | |
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| Danny Epper | ... | Redneck Trucker | |
| Ryan Lee | ... | Scooter (as Ryan Scott Lee) | |
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Gabrielle Harvey | ... | Sam Felton |
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Danny Hanemann | ... | Bartender |
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The real estate agent John is down on his luck: he has been just fired from his job; his home has been sent into foreclosure; and his marriage is going downhill. On his birthday, his wife Joanie has an argument with him and she takes their children walking. Out of the blue, stranger Richie knocks on his front door and asks for help, since his car is not starting. John helps to push the car but hurts his leg, and Richie offers to take him to the hospital. Richie is inconvenient and along their journey, John realizes that the man is a psychopath killer that commits a spree killing everywhere they go. Then, Richie releases John on the road and tells him that he will pay a visit to Joanie and his children. Meanwhile, the police detectives Frank and his partner Latisha Rogers suspect that John is the serial-killer and they pressure Joanie to tell where John might be. Further, they discover that John and Joanie are cheating each other with a colleague and with a worker respectively. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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foreclosure | impersonating a police officer | marital infidelity | killing spree | murder |Taglines:
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30 March 2012 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Opening Weekend USA:
$181, 6 May 2012, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
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When Tammy and John are leaving the police station, John's is holding Tammy and his arm jumps around inconsistently between shots. See more »Quotes
Richie: If you wanna believe the lie, then go on living your life. But the world is evil, John. It's just plain evil. That's the truth.See more »
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A pretty decent film with good production values and very good acting all around. Probably it's hard to avoid, but the story does suffer from the Hollywood effect - making every movie look like any another movie, since they all need to be sold somehow. In it's favor, 'Meeting Evil' starts out fairly loyal to its source material, and stays on track most of the way, despite some unneeded upping of the conventional stakes, and a couple extra back story complications. These don't really hurt the film, and it's a fairly exciting experience, up until the contemporary Hollywood twistiness at the end, which, though interesting, blunts the point of the Berger novel (at least as regards the main character). It tries to make its own point about evil in everyday life, and might have succeeded were it not for the logical problem it introduces with the Richie character's motivation. Though it's not in the book, I do think the concluding scene is actually pretty good; or it would be, if the viewer can get past the twist that doesn't really fit.