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Crossfire

2016 · 90 min

A tense, somber homecoming thriller where fractured memory and mounting paranoia keep you uneasy and invested.

Overview: When National Guard soldier Samantha Harrison returns from the front lines of Iraq, she realizes that none of her training helps her deal with PTSD or the struggles of returning to a normal life. Samantha comes home to find out she's being blamed for a friendly fire incident that killed two Americans and she becomes the target of an obsessed soldier seeking revenge for their deaths. She tries to reassemble her fragmented memories of that horrific night in order to convince everyone, including herself, that she didn't do it. Who do you turn to when you can't trust your own memories and the few people you do trust are being killed off one by one?

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Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: memory
trauma
isolation
revenge
justice
Places: small town
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: twist ending
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	4
Horror	3
Humour	1
Realism	7
Romance	2
Tension	7
Darkness	7
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama, thriller, tv movie
Directed by: Claude Desrosiers
Written by: Lisa Steele
Starring: Roxanne McKee, Steve Lund, Tim Rozon, Stacey Farber, Mark Walker, Jonathan Koensgen, Mishka Thébaud, David Gow
Music: James Gelfand
Runtime: 90 min
Country: Canada
Languages: English

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