''The Guilty'' is a 2000
American
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crime film
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine ...
directed by
Anthony Waller
Anthony Waller (born 24 October 1959) is a film director. He was born in Beirut.
Filmography
*'' Mute Witness'' (1995)
*''An American Werewolf in Paris'' (1997)
*'' The Guilty'' (2000)
*''Nine Miles Down'' (2008
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and starring
Bill Pullman
William Pullman (born December 17, 1953) is an American actor. After graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree in theater, he was an adjunct professor at Montana State University before deciding to pursue acting. He made his film debut in ''R ...
,
Devon Sawa
Devon Edward Sawa (born September 7, 1978) is a Canadian actor. Sawa began acting when he was a teenager and appeared in several films in the 1990s including ''Little Giants'', ''Casper'', '' Now and Then'', '' Wild America'', ''Idle Hands'', an ...
,
Gabrielle Anwar
Gabrielle Anwar is a British and American actress. She is known for her television roles as Sam Black in the second series of ''Press Gang'', as Margaret Tudor in the first season of ''The Tudors'', as Lady Tremaine in the seventh season of '' ...
,
Angela Featherstone
Angela Featherstone is an actress, writer, director, and advocate for children in foster care. She grew up in the Nova Scotia and Manitoba provinces of Canada.
Career Modeling
Within a year of emancipating herself from foster care at age ...
and
Joanne Whalley
Joanne Whalley (born 25 August 1961) is an English actress who began her career in 1974. She has appeared primarily on television, but also in nearly 30 feature films, including ''Dance with a Stranger'' (1985), ''Willow (film), Willow'' (1988), ...
. The film is a remake of the 1992 UK TV two-part telemovie of the same name and identical plot starring
Michael Kitchen
Michael Roy Kitchen (born 31 October 1948) is an English actor and television producer, best known for his starring role as Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle in the ITV drama ''Foyle's War'', which comprised eight series betwee ...
,
Sean Gallagher,
Caroline Catz
Caroline Catz (born Caroline Caplan; 19 October 1970) is an English film, television and theatre actress and narrator. She is best known for her role as Louisa Glasson in ''Doc Martin'' since 2004. Her other major roles have included Detective ...
and
Carol Starks
Carol Starks is a British actress.
She studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama, and landed her first role with the National Theatre in ''Sweeney Todd''. She later found wider audiences through her ongoing role in the soap opera ''Famil ...
.
Plot
Callum Crane (
Bill Pullman
William Pullman (born December 17, 1953) is an American actor. After graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree in theater, he was an adjunct professor at Montana State University before deciding to pursue acting. He made his film debut in ''R ...
) is in line for appointment to the
federal bench, during the same week he
rapes
Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, Abusive power and control, ...
a new secretary at his office. It's also the same week Nathan Corrigan (
Devon Sawa
Devon Edward Sawa (born September 7, 1978) is a Canadian actor. Sawa began acting when he was a teenager and appeared in several films in the 1990s including ''Little Giants'', ''Casper'', '' Now and Then'', '' Wild America'', ''Idle Hands'', an ...
) (a young, callow ex-con) goes to the city to meet his biological father, the same Callum Crane. They meet and before Nathan can tell Crane who he is, Crane offers him money to kill the secretary, who has threatened to go to the police. Nathan takes an envelope of cash and the woman's photo, tells friends about it, and throws away the envelope. One of the friends, who needs money, retrieves the envelope and sets out to kill the woman. Can Nathan stop the crime?
Cast
References
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2000 films
2000 crime drama films
2000 crime thriller films
2000 independent films
American crime drama films
American crime thriller films
American independent films
American remakes of British films
American thriller drama films
Films about dysfunctional families
Films based on British novels
Films based on crime novels
Films directed by Anthony Waller
Films about rape
Films with screenplays by William Davies
Films about sexual harassment
2000s English-language films
2000s American films
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