The Guilty (2000)

	Directed by: Anthony Waller	COUNTRY USA GENRE Crime/Drama NORWEGIAN TITLE The Guilty RUNNING TIME 108 minutes
	Produced by: Thomas Hedman Lisa Richardson
	Written by: William Davies Simon Burke

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Callum Crane	Bill Pullman
Nathan Corrigan	Devon Sawa	½
Sophie Lennon	Gabrielle Anwar	½
Tanya Duncan	Angela Featherstone
Natalie Crane	Joanne Whalley
Leo	Jaimz Woolvett	½

Review

A wonderfully intriguing and at times playful script forms the basis of this close to brilliant, obscure crime thriller. The director is Anthony Waller, not known for anything in particular except the 1995 chiller Mute Witness, and together with his fascinating and rather effective cast he is able to instil a cat-and-mouse feel which gives the story an urgency and fluidity to make The Guilty into an enjoyable little flick. There is a particularly delightful Hitchcockian segment around the halfway mark where Waller intercuts between a breaking-and-entering and our hero’s quest for coming to the rescue. And although there might be one or two more flaccid moments towards the end, Bill Pullman’s smug presence ensures that every piece of excess feels in place.