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Jay Mohr, Benita Ha, Lisa Edelstein, Betty Linde

Sci-fi novelist Bo Aikens (Jay Mohr) is fed up with life in Los Angeles. He heads out of the hustle and bustle of the big city to the small, idyllic town of Black River, where everyone is happy, conte...( read more  read more... )nted and welcoming of strangers -- except for a burly redneck, but he'll be put straight soon enough. Not by Bo, but by an invisible force that rules the town. Troubled by various, peculiar Twilight Zone-ish twists of fate, Bo tries to leave Black River but finds he cannot -- at first because his car has been smashed into a cube, and later by deadly beams that rain from the sky. What's the sinister secret of Black River? Why is Bo being kept prisoner? And why is everyone so dang happy?

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PG, 100 min.

Directed by: Jeff Bleckner

Release Date: July 6, 2001

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DVD Release Date: January 29, 2002

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  • XoXHeBaXoX
    December 14, 2007
    XoXHeBaXoX
    i have watched this one yesterday :D
  • kwiatkowskigirl
    May 3, 2007
    kwiatkowskigirl
    It has Lisa Edelstein in it.

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