The Pineville Heist (2016)

A high school teen stumbles into the aftermath of a bank robbery gone wrong and finds himself locked inside his school trying to keep himself and his teacher alive as one of the psychotic robbers hunts them down.

Director:

Lee Chambers

Writers:

Lee Chambers, Todd Gordon

Stars:

Basil Hoffman, Carl Bailey, Priscilla-Anne Forder

27 wins & 25 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Basil Hoffman	...	Principal Parker
Carl Bailey	...	Sheriff Tremblay
Priscilla-Anne Forder	...	Amanda Becker
Presley Massara	...	Aaron Stevens
Darryl Dougherty	...	Officer Carl Smith
Wayne V. Johnson	...	Derek Stevens
Dennis Dubinsky	...	Officer Mannix
Vince Groulx	...	Chuck
Jacob Brown	...	Mike
Leah Rantala	...	Marissa
Laura Zaina	...	Police Dispatcher
Mika Polkki	...	Jake

Storyline

Seventeen year old Aaron Stevens stumbles into the aftermath of a five million dollar bank heist gone wrong. Hiding under a canoe, Aaron partially catches the murder of one of the robbers. In the chaos he sneaks away with the money and heads straight for the closest place of safety, his high school. Terrified, Aaron tells his shocking tale to Amanda Becker, his drama teacher, but it doesn't take long for one of the psychotic robbers to show up. In the locked down school the pair are relentlessly pursued in a quest to get the money back and wipe out the evidence.

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Plot Keywords:

suspense | 

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Taglines:

Must. Keep. Running.

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site Official Twitter

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

6 April 2016 (Canada)

Filming Locations:

Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

CAD 1,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Jag Pannu Productions,Jetlag Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

80 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The producers managed to obtain full use of an abandoned high school called Fort William Collegiate institute in Thunder Bay, Ontario for the bulk of principal photography.

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Goofs

Flag of the United States hung vertically incorrect in the school hallway. The canton (blue box of stars) is in the upper-right corner (should always be upper-left).

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Soundtracks

Help Tie Me Down
Composed and Performed by Cyril John Curnin & Richard Termini
Courtesy of Inch by Inch

User Reviews

Fantastic Film!

I review film submissions for many film festivals, so it was a welcome surprise when I had seen this as a submission to the 2017 FILMCHELLA film festival on February 27th, I am only one of a couple dozen reviewers for that festival, but I strongly recommend it as an official selection, This is an epic film, from the opening shot, a beautiful aerial view of the forest, to the eerie shots accentuated by the low key lighting and use of hard shadows in the school, the cinematography looks fantastic, like it was shot with the same cameras used in big budget films, it is a very well written story, the principal, the sheriff and the school teacher were it's strongest actors, overall the school teacher is the best actor in the film, she is perfect, the principle is obviously a Hollywood character actor, and he's good at it' the sheriff was portrayed perfectly, the actor playing that role could easily be a real sheriff or football and baseball coach as he is the perfect role model type personality, this is definitely a coming of age film as well as a thriller, it has moments that captivated the audience and kept them at the edge of their seats, for a relatively low budget film, on Hollywood terms anything produced for under a million dollars is low budget, it looks and sounds like a bigger budget film, it has a few small errors in the audio, slight ADR discrepancies, and a few slight Visual Effects errors, not enough for the general public to criticize, but prevalent enough for distributors to take notice, the score is good, the acting is good, the characters work well together, it's believable, overall I loved this film, it kept me excited and intrigued, and engaged in the story, at the end it didn't feel like 80 minutes, which is great, the pace kept going, I would watch it again..