''Sublime'' is a 2007

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film directed by Tony Krantz and written by Erik Jendresen. It is the second

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" horror film from

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, released on March 13, 2007. The film stars

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, and

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Plot

George Grieves checks into the Mt.

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Hospital for a routine procedure only to find horrors await him. Awakening from what was supposedly a

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, Grieves is told by hospital staff that due to confusion arising from similar patient names he was mistakenly given a

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to cure sweaty palms. As the days tick by Mr. Grieves' post-operative experiences grow ever more bizarre until he finally realizes that he is caught inside a nightmare of his own creation and seems unable to escape or awaken back in the real world. He understands that something has gone wrong in his post-operative recovery which is keeping him trapped in this netherworld of manifestations of worst fears, but he understands neither what the problem is nor what he can do to awaken from it. Eventually his condition is shown from his family's perspective, and it appears hopeless. The doctors explain that there was a complication during the colonoscopy, which created an air bubble in his bloodstream. The bubble eventually reached his brain and caused so much damage that he ended up in an apparently

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. He has been dead to the outside world for 10 months, and his family is being pressured to end all artificial means of

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. Meanwhile, back inside his own mind, Grieves is in a desperate losing battle with his own manifested fears and decides that the only way out is to commit suicide in this dream-like state, hoping that it will cause his real body to expire and free him from the interminable torment he has had to endure. He manages to leap from a 7th-floor window onto the concrete below, and the final shot is of his real-world body lying in an empty hospital room where it flatlines, closing its eyelids in physical death.

Cast

as George Grieves *

as Jenny *

as Zoe *

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as P.J. *

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as Dr. Sharazi *

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as Andrea *

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as Billy *

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as Friar Lazaro Mate * Sujata Day as Young Quechua Girl *

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as European Nurse *

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as Chloe *

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as Ned *Dan Gerrity as The Bald Man * Michael Gregory as The Face *

as Mandingo *

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as Frank / PVS Host *Bruce Nozick as Ira * Michelle Page as Rayven

Production

In June 2006, it was announced Tony Krantz, of the TV series '' 24'' would make his directorial debut on ''Sublime'' the second film to be produced under Warner Bros. Home Entertainment label

that Krantz had created with

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and John Shiban. The film's budget was estimated at around $5 million.

Reception

The film garnered a 33% approval rating from 6 critics – a mixed to negative rating of 4.1 out of 10 – on the review-aggregate website

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References

External links

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