Cast overview: | |||
Jocelin Donahue | ... | Laine | |
Kelly Lynch | ... | Luanne | |
Jim Beaver | ... | Lee | |
Izabella Miko | ... | Gloria | |
Jamie Harris | ... | Flynn | |
Liam Aiken | ... | Eddie | |
AJ Bowen | ... | Officer Gault | |
Dustin Cook | ... | News Anchor | |
Hugh B. Holub | ... | Customer | |
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Mavil Avila | ... | Girl with the Feather Earring |
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Cooper Gillespie | ... | Police Dispatcher |
Ryan Harper Gray | ... | Radio Newscaster |
Laine, a young woman on the run from the law, turns up at the Frontier, an isolated desert diner and motel. She is offered a job by Luanne, the owner, and, hoping to lose herself in the obscurity of the place, accepts the job. But soon Laine realizes she has stumbled into an even bigger and more dangerous situation. Written by Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
A gritty American Southwest flick, The Frontier manages to capture a western outlaw atmosphere in a rustic wind blown environment.
A pretty, mysterious girl named Laine driving across the Arizona desert becomes temporarily employed at a diner to make up for food & lodging. The residents and customers therein are a motley lot, each with their own disturbing secrets, and each sharing a collective one as well. There's Eddie the rebel {a brash leather-clad young man reminiscent of Jim Stark/James Dean}; couple Gloria & Flynn are a British gentleman & a Jayne Mansfield-type girlfriend; Luanne, an eccentric former showgirl {diner owner, glamorous yet quite neurotic}; Lee is a stony bearded professor-like gentleman; & Officer Gault comes and goes, reminding one of a William Shatner character*, who takes a shine to Laine, especially evident in the end. Incidentally, despite a very close call with The Reaper, Laine merges with the unlikely crew of malfeasants awaiting their ill- gotten reward, utilizing venomous trickery to gain her own deadly remuneration.
With various unexpected twists and turns, the dangerous path throughout The Frontier leads to surprise lethal treasures awaiting those with a ruthlessly lawless disposition, where few survive. ∞
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* i.e., Mark Preston of The Devil's Rain, Rack Hansen of Kingdom of The Spiders.