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| Directed by | Kevin Ward |
| Written by | Kevin Ward |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
A Patient Man is a crime drama film, written and directed by Kevin Ward and released on January 17, 2020.
Tom Alexander works for a consulting firm in Los Angeles. He was injured and his wife killed in a car accident caused by another driver running a red light; he now wears a knee brace, commutes on his bicycle and via light rail instead of in a car, and is seeing a therapist. He is troubled by flashbacks; on the train, he meets Aaron, who tells him his driving license has been restricted, and Tom patiently finds out more and then plots his revenge. [2] [3] [4]
A Patient Man was Ward's first feature film; he also wrote the script, [2] and described it as Hitchcockian in inspiration. [4]
The film was shown at the 2019 Austin Film Festival [5] and released on video on demand on February 7, 2020. [3]
Some reviewers described A Patient Man as "interesting and twisted" [4] and praised Ward's direction for "an amazing job of hiding the clues to the mystery while showing a very real depiction of how a person can descend into revenge because of their grief," as well as praising Mangum's [5] and Ellington's [4] performances. Others criticized the film for "telegraph[ing] the plot even while spinning it" [3] and Mangum's performance as "so deadpan as to be sleep inducing." [2]
