Chris Messina
Also Known As: Christopher Messina, 克里斯·梅西納, کریس مسینا
Biography: Christopher Messina (born August 11, 1974) is an American actor, director, writer, and producer. He is best known for starring as Danny Castellano in the series The Mindy Project (2012–2017), which earned him two nominations for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series. He has appeared in films such as Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Julie & Julia (2009), Devil (2010), Argo (2012), Ruby Sparks (2012), Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012), Cake (2014), Birds of Prey (2020), I Care a Lot (2020), Call Jane (2022), Air (2023) and The Boogeyman (2023). Messina wrote, executive produced, and starred in the comedy film Fairhaven (2012). He also directed and starred in the drama film Alex of Venice (2014). On television, Messina appeared as Ted Fairwell in the HBO drama series Six Feet Under (2005), Chris Sanchez in the Audience Network legal thriller series Damages (2011–2012), Reese Lansing in the HBO political drama series The Newsroom (2012–2014), Richard Willis in the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects (2018), Nick Haas in the USA Network crime drama series The Sinner (2020), Angelo Lano in the Starz political miniseries Gaslit (2022), and as Nathan Bartlett in the Peacock comedy thriller Based on a True Story (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Messina, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: August 11, 1974
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Gender: Male
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Made of Honor
Overview: Tom and Hannah have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is starting to think that he is relationship material after all, Hannah gets engaged. When she asks Tom to be her 'maid' of honor, he reluctantly agrees just so he can attempt to stop the wedding and woo her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-30
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Overview: Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-15
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Dreamin' Wild
Overview: “Dreamin’ Wild” tells the true story of the Emerson family and the tumult that followed the success of their self-recorded pop-funk album of the same name, which went largely unnoticed until critics rediscovered and reappraised it decades later. Now, as an adult, Donnie is forced to confront the ghosts from the past and grapple with the emotional toll his dreams have taken on the family who supported him.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-08-04
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Julie & Julia
Overview: Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-06
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Greenberg
Overview: A New Yorker moves to Los Angeles in order to figure out his life while he housesits for his brother, and he soon sparks with his brother's assistant.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-26
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Turn It Up
Overview: Trying to bootstrap his way out of Brooklyn's mean streets is Diamond, a rap musician. With his long-time pal Gage acting as his manager, he's trying to lay down a demo tape with cut-rate studio time. To pay the bills, he and Gage run drugs for "Mr. B." Inside a week, Diamond's beloved mother dies suddenly, his father appears after an absence of 12 years and wants a relationship, and his girlfriend Kia tells him she's pregnant, asking him if he's ready to be a father. Gage steals $100,000 in a multiple-felony robbery so that Diamond can record a full album, not knowing it's Mr. B's money he's taken. B wants his money, Diamond wants his music, Tia wants an answer.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-06
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Overview: After her boyfriend mysteriously leaves her with little explanation, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at a prestigious East Coast university is left looking for answers as to what went wrong.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-25
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Humboldt County
Overview: Peter is a medical student about to graduate and begin his residency. When his professor fails him, he winds up in bed with an actress and singer named Bogart rolling through Los Angeles. He accompanies her to the redwoods of northern California, where he encounters her eccentric family of pot farmers. But when Bogart runs away without a word, Peter is thrust into the picturesque and bizarre world.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-26
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Like Crazy
Overview: A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-28
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Ira & Abby
Overview: A neurotic, young psychology student, with low self-esteem, has a chance encounter with a free-spirited, extremely gregarious woman who works at the Paris Health Club in New York City, and who suggests that they immediately get married to see how it will work out. Both of the student's parents are analysts, and they provide the happy couple with a gift certificate for a year of marriage counseling as a wedding present.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-23
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Devil
Overview: A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the devil.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-16
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Argo
Overview: As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-11
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Away We Go
Overview: Verona and Burt have moved to Colorado to be close to Burt's parents but, with Verona expecting their first child, Burt's parents inexplicably decide to move to Belgium, now leaving them in a place they hate and without a support structure in place. They set off on a whirlwind tour of of disparate locations where they have friends or relatives, sampling not only different cities and climates but also different families. Along the way they realize that the journey is less about discovering where they want to live and more about figuring out what type of parents they want to be.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-05
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The Boogeyman
Overview: Still reeling from the tragic death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves plagued by a sadistic presence in their house and struggle to get their grieving father to pay attention before it’s too late.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-31
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Monogamy
Overview: Exhibitionism, voyeurism, jealousy, lust. Brooklyn wedding photographer Theo’s side business shooting surveillance-style photos of clients on the sly takes an unexpected turn - and creates a rift with his fiancée - when he’s hired by a provocative mystery woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-24
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Too Long at the Fair
Overview: Charlie and Val are best friends and owners of a fledgeling Princess party business in Los Angeles. After a mishap at a client’s party, the two find themselves in the hole and desperate for funds. They meet a charming divorcee, and what begins as a provocative yet seemingly harmless adventure take a downward turn.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-26
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28 Hotel Rooms
Overview: While traveling for work in a city far from their homes, a novelist and a corporate accountant find themselves in bed together. Although she’s married, and he’s seeing someone, their intense attraction turns a one-night stand into an unexpected relationship and a respite from the obligations of daily life. Through a series of moments – some profound, some silly, some intensely intimate – we see a portrait of an evolving relationship that could become the most significant one of their lives.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-21
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Celeste & Jesse Forever
Overview: Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in their friends’ minds as the perfect couple – she, a high-powered businesswoman and budding novelist; he, a free spirit who keeps things from getting boring. Their only problem is that they have decided to get divorced. Can their perfect relationship withstand this minor setback?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-03
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An Invisible Sign
Overview: Mona Gray is a 20-year-old loner who, as a child, turned to math for salvation after her father became ill. As an adult, Mona now teaches the subject and must help her students through their own crises.
Genres: Family Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-06
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The Giant Mechanical Man
Overview: An offbeat romantic comedy about a silver-painted street performer and the soft spoken zoo worker who falls for him.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-27
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Ruby Sparks
Overview: Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a character named Ruby who inspires him. When Calvin finds Ruby, in the flesh, sitting on his couch about a week later, he is completely flabbergasted that his words have turned into a living, breathing person.
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-07-25
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Fairhaven
Overview: Long-time friends reconnect when one returns to their small Massachusetts town for a funeral.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-11
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The Aviary
Overview: A twisted journey of two women’s desperate flee to escape the clutches of Skylight, an insidious cult. Lured in by the promise of “freedom” in the isolated desert campus called The Aviary, Jillian and Blair join forces to escape in hopes of real freedom. Consumed by fear and paranoia, they can’t shake the feeling that they are being followed by the cult’s leader, Seth, a man as seductive as he is controlling. The more distance the pair gains from the cult, the more Seth holds control of their minds. With supplies dwindling and their senses failing, Jillian and Blair are faced with a horrifying question: how do you run from an enemy who lives inside your head?
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-04-29
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Denise
Overview: A girl helps a guy untangle his web of lies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-07-04
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Anatomy of Hope
Overview: Medical drama based on the lives of cancer patients. Based on Jerome Groopman's "The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness."
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Air
Overview: Discover the game-changing partnership between a then undiscovered Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and culture with the Air Jordan brand.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-04-05
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Manglehorn
Overview: AJ Manglehorn is an aging, ordinary guy in a small town. He nurses his sick cat, squeezes out a conversation with the local bank teller every Friday, and eats at the same place every day. But there is more to Manglehorn than meets the eye: he’s an ex-con who, 40 years ago, gave up the woman of his dreams for a big ‘job’. After a dramatic effort to start over, Manglehorn faces a terrifying moment and is unmasked as a guy with a very, very dark past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-03
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Showing Up
Overview: An unprecedented look at the audition, compiled from more than 50 interviews with notable artists including Kristin Chenoweth, Richard Griffiths, Zoe Kazan, Nathan Lane, Chris Messina, Sam Rockwell and Eli Wallach.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-25
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Alex of Venice
Overview: After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-17
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We're Just Married
Overview: A suburban wife ends her marriage after having an affair with her neighbor.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
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Towelhead
Overview: A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist, and her strict father during the Gulf War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-12
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Juror #2
Overview: While serving as a juror in a high profile murder trial, family man Justin Kemp finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma…one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict—or free—the accused killer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-30
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Digging for Fire
Overview: Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood Hills is complicated by Tim's discovery of a bone and a rusty old gun in the yard. Tim is excited by the idea of a mystery, but Lee doesn't want him to dig any further, preferring that he focus on the family taxes, which he promised to do weeks ago. This disagreement sends them on separate and unexpected adventures over the course of a weekend, as Tim and his friends seek clues to the mystery while Lee searches for answers to the bigger questions of marriage and parenthood.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-21
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Cake
Overview: After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-07
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Palo Alto
Overview: A lack of parental guidance encourages teens in an affluent California town to rebel with substance abuse and casual sex.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-29
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Rounders
Overview: A young reformed gambler must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-11
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Zeroville
Overview: A young actor arrives in Hollywood in 1969 during a transitional time in the Industry.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-19
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The Trouble With Bliss
Overview: 35-year-old Morris Bliss is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia: he wants to travel but has no money, he needs a job but has no prospects, he still shares an apartment with his widowed father, and the premature death of his mother has left him emotionally walled up. When he finds himself wrapped up in an awkward relationship with Stephanie, the 18-year-old daughter of a former classmate, Morris quickly discovers his static life unraveling and opening up in ways that are long overdue.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-01
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The Oven
Overview: A young couple get into a fight before a very important party. Little do they know an outsider has tuned into their conversation.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-18
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Ordinary World
Overview: Perry is a happily married father of two living a comfortable but sedate life in the suburbs. On the occasion of his 40th birthday, he seeks to revisit his former life as the lead singer in a popular punk band though his middle-aged reality quickly (and hilariously) clashes with the indulgences of his youth.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-14
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The Sweet Life
Overview: Kenny is an ice cream vendor in Chicago with a crisp white uniform and an apathetic heart. When he encounters Lolita, a sharp-tongued but despondent insurance actuary, their heated conversation, natural spark and mutual hopelessness lead to an unusual proposal for a meet-cute: to travel to San Francisco, where they will jump off the Golden Gate Bridge together.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-13
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Live by Night
Overview: A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-25
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You've Got Mail
Overview: Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-18
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Lear Rex
Overview: An aging king splits up his kingdom for his three daughters to govern, but is misled about their affections and driven into exile.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Blame
Overview: A drama teacher's taboo relationship with an unstable student strikes a nerve in her jealous classmate, sparking a vengeful chain of events within their suburban high school that draws parallels to "The Crucible".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-05
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The True Adventures of Wolfboy
Overview: Follows a young boy who runs away from home in the search of his estranged mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-12-08
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Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Overview: Harley Quinn joins forces with a singer, an assassin and a police detective to help a young girl who had a hit placed on her after she stole a rare diamond from a crime lord.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-05
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I Care a Lot
Overview: A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her latest mark comes with some unexpected baggage.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-19
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The Secrets We Keep
Overview: In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.
Genres: Thriller History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-16
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Love is Love is Love
Overview: Three stories that explore love, commitment, and loyalty between couples and friends. "Two for Dinner" where a married couple temporarily living in two different locations are more separated than they think. "Sailing Lesson" about a long-married couple who spend a day on a sailboat rekindling their romance… and unexpected events arise. "Late Lunch" where a young woman who recently lost her mother gathers together a group of her mother’s friends to share memories, with surprising revelations.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-07
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The Siege
Overview: The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent and his team attempt to locate and decommission the enemy cells, but must also deal with an Army General gone rogue and a female CIA agent of uncertain loyalties.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-06
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She Dies Tomorrow
Overview: Amy is ravaged by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow, which sends her down a dizzying emotional spiral. When her skeptical friend Jane discovers Amy’s feeling of imminent death to be contagious, they both begin bizarre journeys through what might be the last day of their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-31
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I.S.S.
Overview: Tensions flare in the near future aboard the International Space Station as a conflict breaks out on Earth. U.S. and Russian astronauts receive orders from the ground: take control of the station by any means necessary.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-19
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Call Jane
Overview: A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-10-27
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Pressure
Overview: In the seventy two hours leading up to D-Day, all the pieces are in place except for one key element – the British weather. Britain’s chief meteorological officer James Stagg is called upon to deliver the most consequential forecast in history, locking him into a tense standoff with the entire Allied leadership. The wrong conditions could devastate the largest ever seaborne invasion, while any delay risks German intelligence catching on. With only his trusted aide Captain Kay Summersby to confide in, and haunted by a catastrophic D-Day rehearsal, the final decision rests with Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower. With only hours to go, the fate of the war and the lives of millions hang in the balance.
Genres: Thriller History War
Original Language: en
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Road
Overview: Two exes take a dual-purpose road trip: allow Margaret (Catherine Kellner), a freelance photographer, to complete her assignment to check up on toxic waste sites along the U.S.-Canadian border, and deliver Jay (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) home to his mother's house in Detroit. The trip takes a turn for the weird as they begin to suspect they are trapped.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-24
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