The Employer (2013)

Five highly qualified applicants interview for a coveted job. On the night before the last round of interviews, they are all kidnapped and drugged. The next day, they wake up trapped together in a locked room without any hope of escape.

Director:

Frank Merle

Writer:

Frank Merle

Stars:

Malcolm McDowell, David Dastmalchian, Paige Howard

10 wins.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Malcolm McDowell	...	The Employer
David Dastmalchian	...	James Harris
Paige Howard	...	Sandra Turner
Michael DeLorenzo	...	Keith Caverns
Matthew Willig	...	Mike Drake
Katerina Kopel	...	Billie Lewis (as Katerina Mikailenko)
Billy Zane	...	Alan
Nicki Aycox	...	Maggie Jordan
Daniel Aldema	...	Ted Simpson
Mark Alexander Herz	...	Dom
Bryan Hanna	...	Max
Nicholas Vukasovich	...	Ray
Jennifer Grace Farmer	...	Ms. Anderson
James Cooney	...	Pete Miller
Eli Goodman	...	Greg

Storyline

Five highly qualified applicants interview for a coveted job with the Carcharias Corporation, a powerful conglomerate whose business practices are shrouded in mystery. On the night before the last round of interviews, they are all kidnapped and drugged. The next day, they wake up trapped together in a locked room without any hope of escape. Soon the true nature of their situation is revealed when they receive a phone call from the mysterious CEO of Carcharias, known only as The Employer. He informs them that they are about to experience the final interview, but it's not at all what they were expecting.

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Genres:

Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-MA

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

7 June 2013 (USA)

Also Known As:

L'Employeur

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Hyrax Entertainment, Crafted Films, Lone Morsel Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

'Karcharías' is the general name of the larger human-eating species of shark in modern demotic Greek, unchanged from ancient Greek, or in slang as in the English 'loan shark', a ruthless moneylender but in Greek it is applied without the 'loan' epithet as when applied to a person it is understood to mean a money lender who charges exorbitant interest and often uses rough necks to ensure payment.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Man: Look, look, I did it. I pulled this out of the wall. Come on! We can both do this, we can get out of here. Come on!

User Reviews

It is special!

This is the kind of movie I usually do not like. All the action in a closed frame, only dialogue, right, there are also four crimes, boring. But, the quality of the actors' play, I mean the five job candidates, all very natural, they pick up the film. Plus, Malcolm McDowell, "deadly serious" and very special talented. It is a little slow and predictable, even hard to believe that Keith Caverns (Michael DeLorenzo) can strangle with a tie the giant Mike Drake (Matthew Willig) or that Billie Lewis then kills Keith Caverns with her shoe heel. Except that, everything is like in life, I have seen with my own eyes such characters, in real life, in different working places, capable of anything for a job.