Ted Evans (Adam Beach) is a remorseful man consumed by guilt but then again he may be suffering from post traumatic stress disorder veering into a serious delusional. Too much vodka one night behind the wheel he crashes into the car driven by Mrs. McGrath killing her and her two children. Ted is convinced in serving his 5-year prison sentence for vehicular manslaughter Mr. McGrath warns him in a prison lineup that since you have deprived me of my life I will deprive you of your life and if you have relationship with any one I will kill them.
Enter Sarah (Camille Sullivan), Ted’s wife, who tracks down Ted missing since his release from prison after serving his 5-year sentence. Ted is hiding out in a remote cabin outside of Powell River, British Columbia convinced a hermit life is safest for his family.
Sarah can’t believe his “bizarre” story about McGrath on a watchful hunt. We veer into Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest” where no one believed Cary Grant’s story or “Rear Window” where no one believed Jimmy Stewart’s story. But what about that man in a sailboat with binoculars? Red herring? A Hitchcockian cameo appearance?
Logic dictates here we can’t believe Ted and his behaviour and actions bolster our view of his delusions. The Hitchcockian tradition compels us to support Ted but there is sufficient character deviance where one swings to a conclusion he is a psychotic pervert. Should Ted Evans be Tud Bundy? But then he might be the true Hitchcock protagonist although his liberation from his “apparition” is based on a lie!
Interested? You should be. Suspenseful and replete with mind games yet truly Canadian with grit. Sullivan is forceful. Beach is convincing as the imperfect one.
Directed by Jason James. Written by Michael Beaton.
Available on VOD Digital now.
RKS 2024 Film Rating: 92/100.
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