Paul is a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light.
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Intimate, spare, contemporary and grave.
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Renoon TMDB · Sep 20177/10
**I like my ending better! Not the one comes after that!** It was a little surprise film, but not that great. I really enjoyed it. It was thrilling, suspense and fast paced storytelling. I usually like this type of flicks. If you too prefer entertainment over a masterpiece, then you would enjoy it as well. Only the beginning was slow, but once the concept of the film ignited, it was a non-stop entertainment. So the later parts are like between the two characters that took place in an isolated place. A great setting and with all the development, the film totally gets you. A struggling alcoholic writer who got rescued by a stranger at a diner, invites him to the home for the stormy night ahead. Later the stranger decides to help him out with his writing, so his stay extends. With talking to each other, the writer comes to know what kind of person he's brought into his house. His agenda ires the stranger and hence a conflict begins between them. The rest of the film is to disclose who ends where with a twist at the end. When the second act begins, that's when your guessing game starts. At the end of that section, I had in my mind that at least 4 to 5 possible paths the story could hea
Read the whole review on TMDB - Vishnu_Dileepon TMDB · Aug 20176/10
“A decent suspense thriller and its good for a one time watch ” It all starts with some stories on abductions here and there then it goes to a lonely writer whom his wife left and he meets up a girl who helps to sell his house and since he can’t write a proper story in a while he gets all kind of irritated goes out for a drive to a nearby café so while going there on the road he met up this truck driver who does not allow him to overtake so somehow he gets in front and curses the truck driver and goes and gets settled in the diner with the girl he met so the truck driver gets there and he tries to pick up a fight with him that is when this stranger guy puts himself between the writer and the truck driver and the stranger threatens the truck driver and both of them leave off so the writer feels that he should have thanked the guy who saved him from that fight so goes finding him and then offers to give him a lift and then the writer insists that he take a break at his place then move on to wherever he was going but as soon as the writer takes him to his place he sees that the stranger has no intention of leaving soon….wait a min the rest of the movie u have to watch don’t worry I ha
Read the whole review on TMDB - Gimlyon TMDB · May 20176/10
If it could have cut out the last two to three of the seven or so endings, then I could maybe have seen _Black_ _Butterfly_ getting a bigger score. As it stands, I can get it to fresh by the skin of its teeth. _Final rating:★★★ - I personally recommend you give it a go._
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Cast
- Antonio BanderasPaul
- Jonathan Rhys MeyersJack
- Piper PeraboLaura
- Abel FerraraPat
- Nicholas AaronDelivery Man
- Vincent RiottaLt Carcano
- Gioia LibardoniWaitress
- Nathalie Rapti GomezJulie
- Alexandra KlimPaul's Wife
- Katie McGovernNancy Barrows
Crew
- Brian GoodmanDirector
- Justin StanleyWriter
- Marc FrydmanWriter
- José David MonteroDirector of Photography
- Federico JusidOriginal Music Composer
- Julia JuánizEditor
- Mark SultEditor
- Monika BacardiProducer
- Alberto BurgueñoProducer
- Andrea IervolinoProducer
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