In the end, we are asked to wonder if this loony bin scenario signifies that Ben is cracking up, or getting a second chance, or is in a state of limbo, or maybe is just having a bad dream. This makes Ben more aggressive and more certain he wants to flee. But Ben is vexed when an unstable psychopath inmate commits suicide ( Tony Curran), saying he sees no escape from here. Ben will adopt a German shepherd (or so it seems!) and befriend the hospital’s attractive patient counselor ( Linda Cardellini).
Robbie believes he’s always being watched and is clearly nuts. Ben tries to stay calm and agreeably works on the grounds with Robbie ( Malcolm Goodwin), a gentle inmate who brutally stabbed his father to death. There’s an unappealing ghostly angel, Avery (Lambert Wilson), who follows Ben around and warns him if he leaves the grounds he will be dead. Meanwhile a somber Ben questions his sanity as he searches for answers to what is happening to him in this strange situation. The priest tells him ‘We all create fictions to deal with our pain.’ This will supposedly suffice our curiosity about what’s going down until the time is ripe for the great reveal about what this supernatural atmosphere signifies.
But after getting his lethal injection he’s surprisingly not dead but turns up in rural Oregon with a new identity as the groundskeeper in a faith-based mental hospital run by the mysterious Father Ezra (Bob Gunton). This gets Ben the death sentence in Texas. The robbery is botched and Ben’s partners kill three people. He convinces the reluctant Ben to help in a get-rich-quick heist he must do to pay off gangsters he owes money to who won’t accept a no answer. At the same time his wastrel younger brother Ricky (Shawn Hatosy) is released from a Florida prison after serving time for burglary and visits him. When the plant boss (Frank Adamson) puts him up for a promotion in a new site, the owners do a security search and discover he’s an ex-con and order him fired. He lives modestly in Dallas with his supportive wife Lisa ( Piper Perabo) and cute young daughter Katie (Brooklyn Prolx). The film had no theater release, going straight to video.īen Garvey (Paul Walker) is an ex-con who turned his life around by going straight and has a steady blue collar shipping foreman job for a brewery. This nightmarish psychological thriller about the dangers of extreme medical experiments and suffocating religious programs is haphazardly directed and written by the screenwriter John Glenn, in his directorial debut. “ E verything is nonsense and not worth pondering. Scott Smith music: Brian Tyler cast: Paul Walker ( Ben Garvey), Tony Curran ( William Reeds), Bob Gunton (Father Ezra), Lambert Wilson ( Avery), Piper Perabo (Lisa Garvey), Linda Cardellini ( Julie Ingram), Malcolm Goodwin (Robbie), Brooklyn Proulx (Katie Garvey), Shawn Hatosy ( Ricky Garvey), Alex Sol (Phelps), Frank Adamson (Danny) Runtime: 100 MPAA Rating: PG-13 producers: David Hoberman/ Todd Lieberman/ Travis Adam Wright/ Matt Milich/Bill Johnson Sony Entertainment 2008) (director/writer: John Glenn screenwriter: story by Evan Astrowsky cinematographer: Jerzy Zielinski editors: Fred Raskin/ M.
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