A KIND OF MURDER
Film - Spotlight Filmfest 2016

A KIND OF MURDER

Directed by Andy Goddard

Info

Director: Andy Goddard
Section: Spotlight
Country: USA
Year: 2016
Language: English
Version: Original version
Cast: Patrick Wilson, Jessica Biel, Eddie Marsan, Haley Bennett, Lucas Bentley
18+ (no age rating)

Logline

A KIND OF MURDER

“Crime doesn’t pay, and in A KIND OF MURDER, neither does fantasizing about it. Adapting acclaimed suspense author Patricia Highsmith’s 1954 novel “The Blunderer,” director Andy Goddard and screenwriter Susan Boyd chart the doom that befalls a couple of men whose spouses, in quick succession, turn up dead at the same out-of-the-way Northeast rest stop. While thrills are mitigated by convoluted plotting and suspect character behavior, the film’s uniquely bleak twist on classic noir conventions is enlivening. Its theatrical fate is limited, yet finding subsequent cult-following favor with genre aficionados isn’t beyond a reasonable doubt.” –Nick Schager, Variety

Meet the director

A KIND OF MURDER

Andy Goddard

Andy Goddard is a British writer-director. He was nominated for a BAFTA for his first short film LITTLE SISTERS 1998. He directed for series TORCHWOOD (2006-2008), DOCTOR WHO (2008) oder DOWNTON ABBEY (2011-2012) and has his theatrical feature debut with semi-fictional biopic SET FIRE TO THE STARS (2014) with a young scholar of literature accompanying poet Dylan Thomas.

Credits

Screenplay: Susan Boyd
Original Material: Patricia Highsmith
Director of Photography: Chris Seager
Film Editor: Jane Rizzo, Elisabet Ronalds
Composer: Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans
Production Designer: Pete Zumba
Costume Design: Sarah Mae Burton
Sound: Rich Bologna
Producer: Christine Vachon, Ted Hope, Susan Boyd, Kelly McCormick
Production Company: Killer Films
Distributor: Wild Bunch Germany GmbH