Taking Lives Page #6

Synopsis: The film starts in the early 1980s. Young Martin Asher took a bus for Canada. He meets another teen on the bus Matt Soulsby. When the bus broke they decided to rent a car and drive to Seattle. On the road the car gets a flat tire, and Matt starts changing the tire Martin comments on how he and Matt are about the same height and he quickly pushes Matt in the way of an oncoming truck causing a huge accident where Matt and the driver both die. He took Matt's guitar and left singing like Matt did. Twenty years later, an FBI profiler, Illeana Scott comes to Canada to help hunting down a serial killer Martin Asher who killed multiple men and lived by their identities. Martin's mother claims that she saw Martin in Quebec city and she tells the police that Martin is evil. The police also has an eyewitness James Costa who saw Asher kill his last victim...
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): D.J. Caruso
Production: Warner Bros.
  4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
38
Rotten Tomatoes:
22%
R
Year:
2004
103 min
$32,634,479
Website
527 Views


...l wanted you to see.

F*** you.

Hello. Inspector Leclair.

-Leclair.

-Illeana. I was worried.

Is it done?

-lt's over.

-Good. Stay put. I'll call this is in.

They'll be there soon.

[ENGLlSH]

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Jon Bokenkamp

Jon Bokenkamp is an American writer and producer best known for his role in writing the screenplay for Taking Lives, The Call, and creating the NBC series The Blacklist along with The Blacklist: Redemption.Bokenkamp was encouraged to enter a script writing competition by friend and fellow Nebraskan, Todd Nelson, creator of the Nebraska Coast Connection. After winning the competition, Jon landed an agent and his first paid assignment, rewriting a horror film for Exorcist director Billy Friedkin.Success allowed Bokenkamp to return to his hometown where he earned the 2013 Hub Freedom Award for his work restoring the historic World Theater in downtown Kearney, Nebraska. more…

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