Scalene (2012)
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67% of critics liked it
(6 reviews) -
51% of users liked it
(123 ratings)
A perceptual thriller told from three points-of-view revolving around the rape of a female college student by a mentally handicapped man and his mother's subsequent revenge after his incarceration. -- (C) Official Site
- Directed By
- Zack Parker
- Written By
- Brandon Owens, Zack Parker
- Genres
- Mystery & Suspense
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jan 20, 2012 Limited
- Studio
- Along The Tracks
Critic Reviews
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Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
While occasionally unpleasant, the film never crosses the line from bearably chilling to unbearably gruesome, keeping its characters credible and its events explicable.
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Ronnie Scheib, Variety
The resolution of its conflicting truths proves so bizarre and idiotically off-the-wall that it mitigates all that precedes it.
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Michelle Orange, Village Voice
Strong performances and a Hitchcock-trained eye build unnerving tension into its depiction of the intimate stress of caring for an invalid and the ways people might or might not crack under it.
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Sarah Boslaugh, PopMatters
...gives you three absolutely nonequivalent views of a horrifying event, in a sort of a Rashomon for our times.
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Jeremy Heilman, MovieMartyr.com
This methodical thriller becomes doubly troubling by ensuring that all of its pieces, in the final appraisal, don't fit together.
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Cast
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Margo Martindale
as Janice
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Hanna Hall
as Paige
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Adam Scarimbolo
as Jakob
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Jim Dougherty
as Charles
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LaDonna Pettijohn
as Mrs. Alexander
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Raymond Kester
as Mr. Alexander
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Sean Blodgett
as Public Defender
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Angela Steele
as City Prosecutor
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Frank T. Ziede
as Dr. Khamis
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Mark A. Nash
as Daniel Trimble
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Eric Monroe
as Butch
