4.8
Summary
Claire is sure of herself, her work and family, until — like a bad dream — her husband disappears, leaving a trail of puzzling secrets that shatter her certainty.
Cast
Betsy Brandt
Claire
Chris Beetem
Paul
Zev Haworth
Connor
Anna Margaret Hollyman
Allison
Sakina Jaffrey
Maya
Ken Strunk
Chief Doyle
David Haugen
Ryan
Shelley Delaney
Skydiving Instructor
Steven Ross
Cop
Merri Biechler
Department Secretary
Kim Taylor
Singer
Lorraine Wochna
Math Chair
Abraham Adams
Graduate Student
Alexander Nicosia
Graduate Student
Daniel Aguera
Graduate Student
Minh Nguyet Nguyen
Graduate Student
Jared Davis
Graduate Student
Eduardo Ribeiro
Graduate Student
Bedir Semih
Graduate Student
Natalie Hulla
Graduate Student
Sara Tripp Swartout
Graduate Student
Alycia Kunkle
Graduate Student
Ledger Free
Math Professor
Marianne Murray
Student in Bar Bathroom
Jena Seiler
Graduate Student
Brian Evans
Stu
Meredith Jensen
Graduate Student
Mike Broecker
Search and Rescue Lead
Joe Brenckle
Singing Men of OHIO
Ryan Childs
Singing Men of OHIO
Jack Cranfield
Student on Stairs
Ryan Patrick Dolan
Ice Cream Patron
Conor Emser
Singing Men of OHIO
Andrew Escobedo
Math Professor
Matt Fujita
Singing Men of OHIO
Benjamin Varda Gillespie
Ice Cream Patron
Gary E. Holcomb
Math Professor
Meredith Kelly
Allison Look-Alike
Sergio R. Lopez-Permouth
Math Professor
Crew
Director, Writer
Lisa Robinson
Director, Writer
Annie J. Howell
Reviews
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March 21, 2017
4
This film follows Claire and her son in the month after Claire's husband goes missing. Judging from the performance by lead actress Betsy Brandt though, you'd believe Claire never actually met the man as she has so little invested in his disappearance. With its deadly pace and quiet landscape, this film never quite picks up enough steam to level a feeling of honesty about the missing, and possibly dead, husband. Instead the co-writing, co-directing team get so distracted with a relatively uninteresting wife/mistress rivalry between Claire and her husband's colleague, that this turns into another story of an emotionally unavailable wife pitted against a younger woman who feels herself a bit too much. The husband's disappearance, it ultimately seems, is an absurd catalyst for a cliche set of circumstances. Deemed so unimportant by the writers in fact (SPOILER ALERT), the husband's disappearance is never even solved. With an underwhelming emotional landscape and a maddeningly unsatisfying ending, this film manages to bring very little to the table.
