Tell Tale

United States, United Kingdom

2009

93 Min

Color

2.35:1

English

Currently 2.0/5 Stars.
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EXEC John Baca, Dave Callaham, Matthew E. Chausse, Michael Ellenberg, Malcolm Reeve, Robert Salerno, Gordon Steel

PROD Michael Costigan, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Martin Shore, Christopher Tuffin, Patrick Wabl

SCR Dave Callaham, Edgar Allan Poe

CAST Josh Lucas, Lena Headey, Brian Cox, Beatrice Miller, Jamie Harrold, Michael K. Williams, Pablo Schreiber, Tim Riis Farrell, Ulrich Thomsen, Dallas Roberts, Cassandre Fiering

In Providence, a husband and wife die in a botched robbery; we see flickers of his last memories. His heart goes to Terry Bernard, a single father raising a girl with a rare degenerative disease. After the operation, Terry has flashes of memory from the last moments of the dead donor’s life. Then, he recognizes one of the donor’s killers and follows him into an alley. Within days, Terry becomes an unwilling avenger, with a police detective on his trail. Meanwhile, he begins a romance with his daughter’s doctor, his moods complicated by memory flashes, the donor’s deepening presence in both Terry’s mind and body, and the unexplained bond among the donor’s killers. Can this end well? —IMDb

Director

Michael Cuesta

Michael Cuesta (Born July 8, 1963 in New York) is an American film and television director. He received a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in 1985.

Cuesta co-wrote (with Stephen Ryder and Gerald Cuesta) and directed the 2001 independent film, L.I.E. which starred Paul Dano, Brian Cox, Billy Kay, and Bruce Altman. L.I.E. received critical acclaim and two Independent Spirit Awards at the Sundance Film Festival.

His film L.I.E. actually led him to become a veteran director for the HBO original series, Six Feet Under which aired from 2001–05. According to executive producer Alan Poul, “During the second season, we had hired a director for the fourth episode, but he fell out one week before the start of pre-production. Alan Ball and I were alarmed, but that night we went to see L.I.E., and it was a revelation. The next morning we booked Michael. He’s a fantastic fit for the show.” Michael Cuesta became a regular director during the 2002 season of Six Feet Under… read more

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Mathias Palmberg

23Feb13

Average thriller almost devoid of suspense and thrills. The cast do what they can but the script and direction is sloppy and lazy. This feels more like a TV movie than anything else.

Wolfsmensch

9Aug11

"Das schwarze Herz" ist ein durchschnittlich inszenierter, spannender Horror-Thriller, der sich viel Zeit für seine Charaktere lässt und somit trotz vorhersehbarer Geschichte bis zum Ende fesselnde Unterhaltung bietet. In der letzten Szene wird man dann noch mit einem unvorhersehbaren Twist belohnt. Es bleibt eine solider Film, die sich immerhin nicht allein auf ausgelutschte Horror-Klischees verlässt.