Summaries

A man enters a roadside diner run by a young woman and claims he is being chased by murderers.

Beth, a young woman who owns a restaurant close by an abandoned highway, shelters Barry, a young man who arrives at her door hungry and wounded. Soon, a group of men appears. Barry claims that they are after him. The handsome leader of the group tells Beth a different story...—Anonymous

In an abandoned secondary road, Beth owns a diner and a motel inherited from her father. Every day she needs to walk on a lonely road from the hotel to the diner. One day, when she opens her diner, the starving and moneyless Jack Barrett arrives, and she serves a free meal to him. Soon three surfers - Peter, who is the leader, Stephen and Roger - arrive at the diner and Jack hides himself in the kitchen. The trio asks for meal and Peter is nice with Beth. When they leave the place, Beth talks to Jack and takes him to a room in her motel. She finds that he is stabbed on the belly and drives him to her only friend in town, Dr. Eric Leonard..She does not want to call the local Sheriff Bryce, who raped her in the past, but when Dr. Leonard records a strange message in her answering machine, she calls Bryce and asks him to investigate his clinic. Bryce sees a notice saying that the clinic will be closed for a few days, and he does not enter the clinic. Beth meets Peter and asks him to go with her to the clinic, where they see blood everywhere and Dr. Leonard and Jack missing. When she sees Jack, he tells her that Peter and his friends killed Dr. Leonard and will kill them. Who is telling the truth?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

As day dawns on a quiet beachside community, Beth (Radha Mitchell) opens her remote roadside diner for another day of business. Enter her first customer, Jack (Barry Watson), a disheveled twenty-something who appears very frightened. He claims that three angry surfers are chasing him--but when the surfers finally arrive at the restaurant, they don't appear to be dangerous. The trio claims that Jack is a lunatic with a dangerous case of road rage, while Jack tells Beth that the surfers want to kill him. With no one to go to for advice or support, Beth finds herself in the middle of a situation that can potentially put her in great danger.—Anonymous

Details

Keywords
  • young
  • man
  • woman
  • body in a trunk
  • diner
Genres
  • Action
  • Thriller
  • Mystery
Release date Jul 20, 2001
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin United States Australia New Zealand
Language English
Filming locations Foxton, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand
Production companies Beyond Films Midnight Film Productions Limited Persona Non Grata Films

Box office

Budget $3000000

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 38m
Color Color
Aspect ratio 2.35 : 1

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