Particularly if you start involving other people into the film. Not that it's ever bad, but, as I mentioned earlier, the concept is ripe for craziness. This is where the film loses a little bit of steam. Anna is a top executive at the company she works for and she was meant to deliver a keynote speech at this event, so people are certainly gonna notice if she goes missing. The situation becomes a bit complicated once Ray realizes that Anna has been set-up by someone else. I think this is where the film really is at its funniest. What I mean is that these two people, at least initially, are very clearly pretending to play these roles that have been designed for them by Ray.

Not that they make comments about the situation they're in. I thought the first chunk of the film, with Ray being contracted by Anna and the initial kidnapping/interrogation itself, were pretty great. The problem I seem to have is that, with a concept as intriguing as this, the film ends up feeling a little tame when you think about how far they could have actually taken things. Pat Healy and Taylor Schilling are pretty damn great together and, if anything, they are responsible for pushing this film into the good category. Don't get me wrong, I would say that this was a pretty good little movie. As far as what I thought about the movie, eh, I don't know. Pat Healy has worked with a whole host of independent filmmakers, so I'm sure he's obviously has learnt a lot throughout the years to help him make this flick. I felt that this concept would make for some interesting scenarios between Ray and the woman who hired him to kidnap her for the entire weekend. I was interested in this movie mostly because of its concept, it's pretty damn good, a fake kidnapping business meant to help people with whatever issues they may be facing. They know that they can push him into different, unexplored areas (for him at least) and that he'll always deliver the goods. I think that range is what makes him so valuable to independent filmmakers. Pat is such a damn great character actor and he is, pretty much, able to do absolutely anything you give him. One of those people that would always find his way into one of my movies (in my hypothetical scenario where I'm a world-famous filmmaker) would be Pat Healy. If I made a career out of this, I'd want to work with a bunch of the same people.

Now that we've discussed that, however, I've also wondered what actors I would cast in which roles. I came to the conclusion that it'd probably be a terrible movie, but one that I would make with a lot of love. I mentioned this in my review of The Sighting some months ago (review I may post on Letterboxd, who knows?).

I've often wondered, if I ever made a film, what it would look like.

Take me home the movie