Return to Sender (2015)

A nurse living in small town goes on a blind date with a man who is not the person he says he is.

Director:

Fouad Mikati

Writers:

Patricia Beauchamp, Joe Gossett

Stars:

Rosamund Pike, Shiloh Fernandez, Nick Nolte

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Rosamund Pike	...	Miranda Wells
Shiloh Fernandez	...	William Finn
Nick Nolte	...	Mitchell Wells
Camryn Manheim	...	Nancy
Alexi Wasser	...	April
Rumer Willis	...	Darlene
Illeana Douglas	...	Judy
Stephen Louis Grush	...	Randy
Donna Duplantier	...	Karen
Ian Barford	...	Gary Harland
Billy Slaughter	...	Kevin
Scout Taylor-Compton	...	Crystal
Jeff Pope	...	Sweet Guard
Ryan Phillippe	...	UPS Delivery Guy
Liann Pattison	...	Edith Brown

Storyline

An attractive but lonely nurse accepts a blind date setup by a co-worker and arranges for them to meet at her home. A stranger arrives on her porch before the arranged time and she mistakes him for her blind date. The stranger rapes her and leaves her seriously traumatized. Her life falls apart and she enters depression. She learns much later he is in a prison an hour away and begins visiting him, first to confront him and her fears. Then she starts to flirt and her spirits improve dramatically in the rest of her life.

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Plot Keywords:

prison | rape | rapist | beating | rape and revenge | 

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Taglines:

He picked the wrong address

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Genres:

Drama | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

14 August 2015 (USA)

Also Known As:

Blind Date

Filming Locations:

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Boo Pictures, Holly Wiersma Productions, Movie Trailer House

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Nick Nolte and Illeana Douglas appeared together in Cape Fear. Although both had parts in this movie, they did not share any scenes.

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Goofs

When William is strapped down on the table covered by a sheet, you can see a blood stain by his left wrist implying as we see soon after that his left hand had been severed however, you can see movement of William's left hand and fingers through the sheet in front of the blood stain.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Nancy: Hey! How was it? How'd it go?
Miranda Wells: Dr. Cyper's amazing. You'd think he was cutting the crusts off his kid's sandwich.
Nancy: So you really want to leave all of this for that?
Miranda Wells: If I qualify for this transfer, I'll still...
[moving a plate of sandwiches]
Miranda Wells: Is this yours?
Nancy: Oh, yeah, sorry.
Miranda Wells: I will still be "all this" adjacent.
Nancy: I don't know why you want to be a surgical nurse. You know, I can take my kids barfing on me, I can take the patients whizzing on me, but the minute you pull out a scalpel, I'm ...
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User Reviews

A strange experience

I'm sitting here having watched 'Return to Sender' and I genuinely don't know what to think. I'm not even sure whether I enjoyed it or not. I could justify giving it a '3' and I could equally justify giving it a '9'. It's my kind of movie first of all. I love the 'revenge' genre. This is an odd case of that genre though. In fact I wasn't even sure it was that type of movie until 4/5 of the way through, despite the movie poster heavily implying it.

It's not a particularly well made movie, at least technically. The sound engineering is poorly done in certain scenes. Every scene involving the prison phones is incredibly hard to hear the dialogue in. It chops in and out and is often inaudible. The story is choppy and alienates the audience at times by leaving them clueless as to what the point of this all is. And yet through all this, I was having a pretty good time watching it (I think).

Rosamund Pike is a very fine actress and has the chops to carry a movie (as she proved in 'Gone Girl'). She's again pretty good here, and with a stronger script could have accomplished a performance on par with her one in 'Gone Girl' (the two roles are actually strikingly similar). It's hard to explain exactly what an odd experience 'Return to Sender' is to someone who hasn't seen it. Would I recommend this film for someone to watch? I'm still not entirely sure. The only thing I can say is watch it to see what I mean.