Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail--one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life.
Adrien Brody
Porter Wren
Yvonne Strahovski
Caroline Crowley
Campbell Scott
Simon Crowley
Jennifer Beals
Lisa Wren
Steven Berkoff
Hobbs
Linda Lavin
Norma
Kevin Breznahan
Ron
Thomas Bair
Tommy
Will Beinbrink
Billy
Frank Deal
Campbell
Raul Aranas
Luis
Chinasa Ogbuagu
Haitian Woman
Uzimann
Cab Driver (uncredited)
Amelie McKendry
Not Caroline (uncredited)
Jahni Brown
Vernon
Alex Echevarria
Tull
Karin Collison
Abigail
Madison Elizabeth Lagares
Sally Wren
Stan Carp
Frank Crowley
Theis Weckesser
Charlie
Director, Screenplay
Brian DeCubellis
Novel
Colin Harrison
October 14, 2016
7
**Ending up solving mysteries between two people risking his own family.**
The film was based on the book named 'Manhattan Nocturne'. Excellently made film, it's the director's first feature film as well. He did not get the top actors, but these actors were the good ones. Adrien Brody and Yvonne Strahovski were amazing their respective roles. It was not a detective story, but very close to being one. So if you love crime-mysteries, then you should try this. The tone of the film makes very interesting. It's not about the question of story prediction, but how cleverly it was advanced like the characters were transformed compared to the opening and the conclusion.
Some films open strongly, but ends poorly. In this case, the opening was average, but ended on a high. The main reason is the middle parts, keeping all contents together and developing some suspense with a couple of quick twists made this film to reach the expectation made by its viewers. It was a tale of a recently famed reporter finds an affair with a young widow, despite he's married with a child. Soon, he discovers some mysterious men are watching him, who threatening his family as well. How he gets out of that trouble by finding reasons behind it is what the rest of the film narrates.
It looked a lot like a television film. Not because of the production quality, actually the production was top class, but the story and its narration felt kind of like a mini-series type. I don't know how many books are there, but I want this to continue, at least as a television film series. One of the best of its kind, I almost liked everything about the film. But I still feel I underrated it, at the end I'm satisfied with what I gave. Definitely, I recommend it.
_7/10_
Status:
Released
Original Language:
English
Budget:
$0.00
Revenue:
$0.00