As Gary in Suspicious River

Suspicious River

My rating: 3.5 out 5

I thought it was a good film and Callums character seemed nice but towards the end I was wondering what I was watching. I went to the London Regus Film Fest in 2000 to see it especially.

Cal was great as was the sweetie Molly Parker, I like her and Cal together...they work.

IN A NUTSHELL:
Leila Murray is the motel receptionist selling her body to the motel guests and hiding a dark secret deep within her that could be released by the vicious redneck drifter who enters her life.

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BBC Reviewers rating: 3/5
Average user rating: 3./5

In "Suspicious River", Molly Parker delivers a chilling lead performance as an emotionally disturbed small-town girl. Director Stopkewich pushes the boundaries with her subject matter after tackling necrophilia in "Kissed", here she studies infidelity, prostitution and violence.

Parker plays Leila, a motel receptionist in the town of Suspicious River. Leila's boredom with her marriage is a metaphor for her tedium with life. In her search for more excitement, Leila sets out to find more interesting men, turning her attention to the lonely guests who pass through the motel. As her reputation spreads, she strikes up a closer relationship with one particular regular. But the path she chooses to escape her mindless existence isn't paved with the gold she'd dreamed of. Molly Parker's detached anti-hero is compelling, while Callum Keith Rennie can do mysterious, sympathetic, and menacing with equal conviction. Stopkewich conjures up a suitably downbeat atmosphere in a riverside town where rain is frequent and the sun never shines.

But it's difficult to accept Leila's actions. It's clear the decisions she makes are all hopelessly wrong. So when her life takes a severe downward turn, rather than feeling sorry for her, the tendency is to feel she was asking for it. This ultimately makes "Suspicious River" little more than a grim tale of a self-perpetuating and unrelenting loser.

"Suspicious River" is released in UK cinemas on Friday 31st August 2001.

Director Lynne Stopkewich
Writer Lynne Stopkewich

Stars
Molly Parker
Callum Keith Rennie
Mary Kate Walsh
Joel Bissonnette
Deanna Milligan
Sarah Jane Redmond
Norman Armour
Byron Lucas
Michael Shanks

Length 92 minutes
Distributor Metro Tartan
Cinema 31st August 2001