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"Breathe in the clear air, and out the blackness…" Netflix has released an official trailer for an acclaimed, super dark Australian thriller titled The Stranger, made by actor / director Thomas M. Wright. This first premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival back in May, just played at the Melbourne Film Festival, and is also stopping by the London Film Festival before debuting on Netflix in October. A small circle of seasoned undercover cops must pose as a vast and influential criminal network to catch a murderer who has evaded conviction for eight years. Joel Edgerton stars as Mark, a cop who perilously finds himself descending deeper into hell while trying to establish a relationship with a dangerous murder suspect. The film unravels as it plays out, initially you don't know who's who and what's going on, with details coming to light as the story continues. Also starring Sean Harris, Steve Mouzakis,...

The Stranger Trailer — Thomas M. Wright‘s The Stranger (2022) movie trailer has been released by Netflix. The The Stranger trailer stars Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Steve Mouzakis, Jada Alberts, Brendan Cooney, Mike Foenander, Alan Dukes, Matthew Sunderland, and Jeff Lang. Crew Thomas M. Wright wrote the screenplay for The Stranger. Plot Synopsis The Stranger‘s plot synopsis: [...]

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Australian films have an excellent track record on the subject of abductions, most notably Lantana, Ray Lawrence’s verdant nightmarish psychological drama, whilst Kim Farrant’s Strangerland portrayed the Australian outback as a place as dangerous and inhospitable as Mars with red dust infiltrating almost every scene. Now we have Thomas M. Wright’s The Stranger, which also revolves around the tale – loosely based on a true story – of a missing person, a boy kidnapped eight years prior and presumed dead, and the hunt for his kidnapper/killer.

Rather than go for lush night-time greens orextra-terrestrial reds, Miller’s film is a palette of greys, from the yellowy light of concrete car parks to the deeper tones of swirlingclouds and impending storms. Cinematographer Sam Chiplin could have added a little more to this colour scheme. While there are glimpses of fiery red and vistas of green forest, the overall tone is positively funereal.

An undercover cop befriends a murder suspect in The Stranger, a taut Australian thriller in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section. Written and directed by Thomas M. Wright (Acute Misfortune), it features excellent performances from Sean Harris and Joel Edgerton, who also serves as producer.

The Stranger begins simply enough: two men strike up a conversation on a long bus journey. One is a loner, Henry (a perfectly-cast Harris), the other a new arrival in town, Paul (Steve Mouzakis). Paul needs a friend; Henry needs work. When Paul offers to introduce his new pal to his criminal contacts, Henry nervously accepts. Enter Mark (Joel Edgerton), who’s presented as a mid-level crime boss with smuggling work on offer. Intimidated but fascinated, Henry goes along for the ride and is drawn to Mark, spending time with him on the job.

Except, there is no job. It is revealed early on that Paul...

Joel Edgerton’s drawling voice instructs us to “breathe out the dark black air” over an image of police officers combring long grass in search of something. Or someone. This is how “The Stranger” opens, posing the question of how much darkness we will need to breathe out in the course of the film. Thomas M. Wright — best known for playing Elisabeth Moss’s sexy, traumatized love interest in Jane Campion’s “Top of the Lake” — offers a sophomore directorial outing that fits right in with the wave of early Australian directors who emerged with a crime drama pivoting around the bleakest of human deeds.

Compared with David Michôd’s dread-fueled “Animal Kingdom,” Justin Kurzel’s sadistic “Snowtown,” and Mirrah Faulkes’s vaudevillian “Judy & Punch,” this is a relatively straight and somber affair. Across locations that hop between Queensland and an anonymous Southern Australian sprawl, Wright draws a tasteful...

Who knew that police sting operations did — or even could — work like the one seen in “The Stranger”? Based on the extensive Mr. Big ruse that brought a notorious Australian kidnapper to justice, this eerie, understated thriller draws the audience into the same deception used to ensnare the culprit, focusing on psychology more than procedure in its entrancing account of a most unusual criminal investigation. The case echoes Denis Villeneuve’s “Prisoners” at times, minus the twisted genre-movie payoff, which will limit commercial prospects beyond Oz shores.

With a tortured performance by producer-star Joel Edgerton at its core, this second feature from gifted actor-turned-helmer Thomas M. Wright is as much about befriending the devil as his terrific 2018 debut, “Acute Misfortune,” was. Premiering in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, “The Stranger” confirms that Wright has arrived, even if his treatment sometimes feels more oblique and self-consciously arty than the material demands.

Netflix has released a new teaser for its upcoming limited series thriller, Clickbait, which will premiere on August 25th.

The show stars Adrian Grenier as Nick Brewer, a seemingly upstanding father, husband, and brother who suddenly disappears one day and winds up at the center of a deadly viral stunt. Beaten and bloody, Nick appears on camera holding cards that read, “I abuse women. At 5 million views, I die.”

The Clickbait teaser offers a glimpse at the frantic chaos that ensues as Nick’s sister (played by Zoe Kazan) and...

(L-r) Jason Lee, an unidentified extra and Frank Lotito on the set of ‘Growing Up Smith.’

Actor Robert Rabiah is frustrated with the lack of on-screen representation of Australia’s diverse communities despite some recent TV shows and movies that are more reflective of race, gender, class and colour.

That prompted Rabiah to create AussieWood, a TV comedy which follows the daily life of casting agent Steve “Aussie” Wood, a high-achieving, slightly neurotic and affable rogue who is trying to do the best he can in a pandemic-ridden world.

Rabiah pitched his idea to director/producer Frank Lotito, who wholeheartedly agreed and will helm a half-hour pilot with a top name cast.

“I wanted to challenge all that mythologising about who can carry a show or who can lead a film or who can play which role and why,” the actor whose credits include Below, Secret City, Safe Harbour and Ali’s Wedding tells If.

Warning: Spoiler alert! Do not proceed if you have not watched Tuesday’s episode of Prison Break.

Did we just find out Poseidon’s identity?

At the end of Tuesday’s episode of Prison Break, titled “The Prisoner’s Dilemma,” the mysterious figurehead -- only known as “a rogue CIA operative” -- was possibly revealed to be Sara’s husband, Jacob Ness (Mark Feuerstein), as he was spotted by T-Bag (Robert Knepper) talking to two henchmen, A&W (Marina Benedict) and Van Gogh (Steve Mouzakis). But, is Jacob really Poseidon?

“There are definitely a number of more moves to that story,” creator Paul T. Scheuring exclusively tells Et. “The idea is to say, ‘Boy, that sure looks like it’s Jacob. Jacob sure looks like [he’s] Poseidon.’ All roads point to him at that point, but like I said, that is not the final understanding of Poseidon or Jacob.”

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Trouble is on the horizon on Prison Break.

On Tuesday’s episode, titled “The Liar,” Sara Tancredi-Scofield (Sarah Wayne Callies) is warned by T-Bag (Robert Knepper) that two of Poseidon’s henchmen, Van Gogh (Steve Mouzakis) and A&W (Marina Benedict), are hot on her tail.

In Et’s action-packed exclusive sneak peek, Van Gogh and A&W discover that Sara may have just beaten them at their own game.

Related: Sara Gets a Secret Message From Michael in 'Prison Break' Sneak Peek

“She baited us,” A&W says, moments after realizing that Sara -- watching their every move from across the street -- outfoxed them. As the two trained assassins race through multiple stores and rooftops trying to catch Sara, will they come up short?

Callies dropped by Et’s Burbank studios to chat about the new installment of Prison Break, where she confessed the return of the beloved prison drama felt “a...

A version of this article originally appeared on EW.com. Warning: This story contains major spoilers from Fox’s Prison Break revival. Read at your own risk!

Spoiler alert: Michael Scofield is alive!

Fox’s Prison Break revival kicked off Tuesday night with the rather obvious reveal that Michael (Wentworth Miller) did not die from his brain tumor — nor from a fatal electrocution, as The Final Break insinuated. His brother Lincoln (Dominic Purcell) uncovers in the premiere that Michael actually has been in a Yemeni prison under the name Kaniel Outis, who is apparently a renowned terrorist.

It’s both...

Exclusive: Line-up includes Australian thriller The Suicide Theory and Us crime film Criticsized.

Genre specialist Devilworks has revealed its slate for the forthcoming American Film Market (Nov 2-9).

The line-up includes Australian thriller The Suicide Theory, which the company is repping for international sales following its release on Netflix Us.

Directed by Dru Brown, the film follows a man who, after failing to commit suicide, pays a hitman to kill him. When that endeavour fails, the man learns that he is cursed with immortality. Steve Mouzakis (who recently completed filming 20th Century Fox’s Prison Break: Sequel) stars in the lead role.

Also on the company’s slate is Us crime thriller Criticsized, which marks the feature debut of director Carl T. Evans. Starring Willie C. Carpenter (Men In Black), Kerr Smith (My Bloody Valentine) and Callum Blue (Colombiana), the film follows an La detective hunting down a serial killer who live streams his crimes online.

Devilworks...

That's Not Me.

Aussie indie comedy That.s Not Me,.director Gregory Erdstein's feature debut,.has wrapped principal photography and is currently in post.

Erdstein co-wrote.the film.with actor Alice Foulcher and shot it over the past nine months in Melbourne and Los Angeles.

It follows the story of Polly, whose dreams of making it as an actor are shattered when her identical twin sister Amy lands a plum role in an HBO show and starts dating Jared Leto.

Mistaken for her famous sister at every turn, Polly decides to use her sister.s celebrity for her own advantage — free clothes, free booze, casual sex. — with disastrous consequences for them both.

That.s Not Me stars Isabel Lucas and Offspring.s Richard Davies alongside newcomer Foulcher.

The ensemble cast also includes Andrew O.Keefe (Deal or No Deal, Weekend Sunrise), Andrew Gilbert (Kiss or Kill, Round the Twist...

Scare Campaign has secured international sales, including a deal with Metrodome Distribution in the UK..

The film, directed by Colin and Cameron Cairnes (100 Bloody Acres) and produced by Julie Ryan (Red Dog), has sold to the UK, Latin America, the Middle East, Turkey, Greece and Indonesia..

.We are thrilled that the fantastic traction Scare Campaign has gained through positive media reviews, sold out screenings and social media, has translated into an international appetite for the film., Ryan said..

The producer and directors have been doing roadshow screenings, taking the film around the country.

.The conventional wisdom is that younger Australians aren't interested in seeing local films on the big screen, but our experience with these event screenings would suggest otherwise", Colin Cairnes said..

"It has been heartening to see a predominantly young audience come to these events and clearly get a kick out of the film's many twists and turns...

Israeli actress Inbar Lavi will have a hand in Fox’s latest and greatest Prison Break.

TVLine has learned exclusively that the actress, who most recently recurred on TNT’s The Last Ship, has booked a key role on the upcoming event series, as Sheba, an operator/fixer/activist who becomes involved with Lincoln Burrows (played by Legends of Tomorrow‘s Dominic Purcell).

RelatedPrison Break: Sarah Wayne Callies to Return for Fox Revival

In the drama’s new, nine-episode chapter — which picks up after the apparent death of “escape artist” Michael Scofield (Legends of Tomorrow‘s Wentworth Miller...

Sarah Wayne Callies is officially set to return for the "Prison Break" revival on Fox.

Callies will reprise her role as Dr. Sara Tancredi, the love interest of Wentworth Miller's lead character Michael Scofield. Miller and his "DC's Legends of Tomorrow" co-star Dominic Purcell, who plays Michael's brother Lincoln Burrows, are also returning.

Set years after Michael's apparent death at the end of the previous season, Sara has moved on with her life and is raising her and Michael’s child with her new husband (Mark Feuerstein). When clues surface suggesting that Michael may be alive, she teams with Lincoln to engineer the series' biggest escape ever.

Much of the original cast is expected to return for the series. Callies currently stars on USA Network's "Colony" and says producers on both shows are working hard with scheduling so she could return to the iconic series.

Augustus Prew, Rick Yune...

Augustus Prew (Klondike), Rick Yune (Marco Polo) and Steve Mouzakis (I, Frankenstein) are set for heavily recurring roles opposite returning stars Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell in Fox's Prison Break event series, a nine-episode follow-up to the cult 2005 Fox action series. Prew, Yune and Mouzakis join new Prison Break cast addition Mark Feuerstein. Deals are still being finalized for original cast members Sarah Wayne Callies, Robert Knepper, Rockmond Dunbar and…...

Broken

Anna Paquin is set to topline ABC's drama pilot "Broken" which Meaghan Oppenheimer will pen and which Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea will executive produce. T.R. Knight, Blair Underwood and Penelope Ann Miller also star.

Paquin plays a ruthless Dallas divorce attorney as her life begins to unravel when her emotionally damaged, love-addicted sister resurfaces, triggering self-destructive tendencies and exposing long-hidden family secrets. [Source: Variety]

24: Legacy

Ashley Thomas is set as a lead, playing the brother of Corey Hawkins' lead character in "24: Legacy" on Fox. Stephen Hopkins directs and Manny Coto and Evan Katz will produce. Miranda Otto, Teddy Sears, Dan Bucatinsky, Anna Diop and Jimmy Smits also star.

The story centers on military hero Eric Carter (Hawkins) and chronicles his return to the U.S. and the trouble that follows him back – compelling him to ask CTU for help to stop a terrorist attack. [Source: TV Line]

Prison Break

Augustus Prew,...

Ahead of Scare Campaign's Australian limited theatrical release later this month, we have a trailer for the film to tide you over.

Press Release: February 3rd, 2016 – The full trailer has been released for Scare Campaign, the upcoming horror feature film from writers and directors Colin and Cameron Cairnes (100 Bloody Acres) and producer Julie Ryan (Red Dog), to coincide with the news that the film will be officially released in late March through an innovative event-style cinema release.

Scare Campaign, which recently scooped the awards at Melbourne’s Monster Fest, including ‘Best Film’ and ‘Best Direction’, will initially host themed preview screenings in February and March. These include anti-Valentines showings at Dendy Newtown and Dendy Canberra, and then a special screening at Beechworth Lunatic Asylum, the abandoned facility that provided the ominous backdrop for the film. Following this, Scare Campaign will kick off a series of event screenings around Australia...

A horrifying incident two years ago involving a friend of Mirko Grillini gave the writer/producer/actor an idea for a psychological thriller with supernatural elements.

Entitled Lies Never Die, the plot follows Sarah Peterson,. a successful homeopath who with her husband Rick returns to the town where she was born to try out a new treatment in an old mental hospital. A terrifying presence begins to infiltrate their house and to influence their lives.

The Italian-born Mirko and his production designer wife Amanda, who operate as Diciotto Productions, attached Us directors Lydelle Jackson and Cezil Reed after meeting them at the Screamfest Horror Film Festival in Los Angeles.

Negotiations are underway with a Us actress to play Sarah. Luke McKenzie (Wentworth, Winners & Losers, Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead) will play Rick, a skilled chef who hides a terrible secret.

Steve Mouzakis (Downriver, The Suicide Theory, I, Frankenstein) is cast...

Guilt, grief, and forgiveness get wrapped up in a Twilight Zone-ish shroud of fate in this downbeat trifle of a crime drama. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

Percival (Leon Cain) wants to die, and he just can’t manage to do the job himself. It’s not a matter of him being unable to summon the nerve to kill himself: he has tried, many times. But he always survives, in seemingly miraculous ways. In ways that have doctors shaking their heads in wonder and marveling, “You’re lucky to be alive” (and not noticing that this upsets their patient). So Percival hires professional killer Steve (Steve Mouzakis: I, Frankenstein) to take care of the chore. Still Percival won’t die… and now Percival is convinced there’s a reason for this that...

Steve Mouzakis in The Suicide Theory.

An Australian micro-budgeted thriller about a tortured hit man and his willing target was released in 10 cinemas and online in the Us last week, garnering positive reviews, but is yet to secure distribution at home.

Freestyle Releasing bought the Us rights to The Suicide Theory, the second film from director Dru Brown (his first was 2012 horror-thriller Sleeper), after it won the grand jury prize at the Dances With Film festival in La and the audience award at the Austin Film Festival.

Scripted by Michael J. Kospiah and shot in Brisbane, it stars Steve Mouzakis as Steven, a professional assassin who is asked by a prospective client named Percival (Leon Cain) to take him out.

Percival had tried to bump himself off numerous times without success, sustaining more bodily damage with every attempt, and Steven seems unable to finish the job.

Variety.s Justin Chang...

Freestyle Releasing Picks Up Aussie Thriller The Suicide Theory

Freestyle Releasing and Freestyle Digital Media (Fdm) announced today that they have acquired North American theatrical and VOD rights to the award-winning Australian thriller The Suicide Theory, which was directed by Dru Brown. The film stars Steve Mouzakis and Leon Cain and was produced by Brown, Christian McCarty, Jacob McCarty, Dan MacArthur and Melanie Poole. ...

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Taking the Audience Award at the Austin Film Festival, and the Grand Jury Prize at the Dances With Films Festival, "The Suicide Theory" is a success that has caught the eye of Freestyle Releasing. The independent distributor behind the smash hit "God's Not Dead" has acquired the Australian thriller for a summer release and today we have an exclusive clip from the film. Read More: 5 Australian Directors Of Australian New Cinema Directed by Dru Brown, and starring Steve Mouzakis and Leon Cain, the genre pic brings with it a twisty premise: A despondent man hires a demented killer to assist him in suicide, but for some reason, miraculously survives each attempt on his life. And as you'll see in the scene below it's an eerie situation. “The Suicide Theory is one of those special films that comes along,” said Mark Borde, President of Freestyle. “With outstanding performances and an incredible script,...

To what length would a desperate and grief-stricken person go to end their life? Several failed attempts at suicide drive Percival (Leon Cain) to hire a professional hitman to kill him in The Suicide Theory, an Australian thriller written by Michael Kospiah and directed by Dru Brown.

Steven Ray (Steve Mouzakis) is dealing with his own personal tragedy -- his pregnant wife Annie (Zoe de Plevitz) was killed in a hit-and-run accident while crossing the street. He's developed such a phobia that he is stricken with seizures any time he attempts to step off a street curb, to the extent of taking cabs just to cross the block. The two men meet when Percival literally jumps from a building and lands on a cab that Steven is in, casing his next victim. What appears to be a chance meeting to Steven is fate to Percival, who appears to be delusional.

Rank the week of October 18th’s Blu-ray and DVD new releases against the best films of all-time: New Releases Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

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Win Percentage: 47%

Times Ranked: 8433

Top-20 Rankings: 50

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Genres: Action • Adventure • Costume Adventure • Fantasy • Sea Adventure • Swashbuckler

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Bad Teacher

(Blu-ray & DVD | R | 2011)

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Win Percentage: 42%

Times Ranked: 3361

Top-20 Rankings: 19

Directed By: Jake Kasdan

Starring: Cameron Diaz • Justin Timberlake • Jason Segel • Lucy Punch • Phyllis Smith

Genres: Comedy • Farce • Sex Comedy

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Red State

(Blu-ray & DVD | Nr | 2011)

Flickchart Ranking: #2738

Win Percentage: 53%

Times Ranked: 1781

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Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest

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Starring: Forest Whitaker, Catherine Keener, Steve Mouzakis, Mark Ruffalo, James Gandolfini, Paul Dano

Director: Spike Jonze

Release Date: October 16, 2009

Running Time: 101 min

MPAA Rating: PG

Distributor: Warner Bros., Golden Village Pictures

Leave it to imaginative director Spike Jonze to puncture the world of innocence created by Maurice Sednak in the classic children's short story about a boy fleeing from home to an island inhabited by a race of huge, fuzzy creatures. This alternate reality is presented in both delicate and frenzied respects, the latter which is working more distinguishable in Mr. Jonze's film adaptation. Save for a couple of magical scenes subtlety is tamed and encapsulated by the overwhelming power of Jonze's mind that twirls out of control, allowing conflictions of tone to hurl upon the live-action film and consume it for the worse.

Tone isn't consistent throughout the film, a major setback for a short film (90 minutes). The connection...

Starring: Forest Whitaker, Catherine Keener, Steve Mouzakis, Mark Ruffalo, James Gandolfini, Paul Dano

Director: Spike Jonze

Release Date: October 16, 2009

Running Time: 101 min

MPAA Rating: PG

Distributor: Warner Bros., Golden Village Pictures

Leave it to imaginative director Spike Jonze to puncture the world of innocence created by Maurice Sednak in the classic children's short story about a boy fleeing from home to an island inhabited by a race of huge, fuzzy creatures. This alternate reality is presented in both delicate and frenzied respects, the latter which is working more distinguishable in Mr. Jonze's film adaptation. Save for a couple of magical scenes subtlety is tamed and encapsulated by the overwhelming power of Jonze's mind that twirls out of control, allowing conflictions of tone to hurl upon the live-action film and consume it for the worse.

Tone isn't consistent throughout the film, a major setback for a short film (90 minutes). The connection...

Starring: Forest Whitaker, Catherine Keener, Steve Mouzakis, Mark Ruffalo, James Gandolfini, Paul Dano

Director: Spike Jonze

Release Date: October 16, 2009

Running Time: 101 min

MPAA Rating: PG

Distributor: Warner Bros., Golden Village Pictures

Leave it to imaginative director Spike Jonze to puncture the world of innocence created by Maurice Sednak in the classic children's short story about a boy fleeing from home to an island inhabited by a race of huge, fuzzy creatures. This alternate reality is presented in both delicate and frenzied respects, the latter which is working more distinguishable in Mr. Jonze's film adaptation. Save for a couple of magical scenes subtlety is tamed and encapsulated by the overwhelming power of Jonze's mind that twirls out of control, allowing conflictions of tone to hurl upon the live-action film and consume it for the worse.

Tone isn't consistent throughout the film, a major setback for a short film (90 minutes). The connection...

Starring: Forest Whitaker, Catherine Keener, Steve Mouzakis, Mark Ruffalo, James Gandolfini, Paul Dano

Director: Spike Jonze

Release Date: October 16, 2009

Running Time: 101 min

MPAA Rating: PG

Distributor: Warner Bros., Golden Village Pictures

Leave it to imaginative director Spike Jonze to puncture the world of innocence created by Maurice Sednak in the classic children's short story about a boy fleeing from home to an island inhabited by a race of huge, fuzzy creatures. This alternate reality is presented in both delicate and frenzied respects, the latter which is working more distinguishable in Mr. Jonze's film adaptation. Save for a couple of magical scenes subtlety is tamed and encapsulated by the overwhelming power of Jonze's mind that twirls out of control, allowing conflictions of tone to hurl upon the live-action film and consume it for the worse.

Tone isn't consistent throughout the film, a major setback for a short film (90 minutes). The connection...

Starring: Forest Whitaker, Catherine Keener, Steve Mouzakis, Mark Ruffalo, James Gandolfini, Paul Dano

Director: Spike Jonze

Release Date: October 16, 2009

Running Time: 101 min

MPAA Rating: PG

Distributor: Warner Bros., Golden Village Pictures

Leave it to imaginative director Spike Jonze to puncture the world of innocence created by Maurice Sednak in the classic children's short story about a boy fleeing from home to an island inhabited by a race of huge, fuzzy creatures. This alternate reality is presented in both delicate and frenzied respects, the latter which is working more distinguishable in Mr. Jonze's film adaptation. Save for a couple of magical scenes subtlety is tamed and encapsulated by the overwhelming power of Jonze's mind that twirls out of control, allowing conflictions of tone to hurl upon the live-action film and consume it for the worse.

Tone isn't consistent throughout the film, a major setback for a short film (90 minutes). The connection...