Darkness Falls (1999 film)

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Darkness Falls
Directed by Gerry Lively
Written by John Howlett
Based on Dangerous Obsession
by N. J. Crisp
Produced byAlan Latham
Clifford Haydn-Tovey
Starring Sherilyn Fenn
Ray Winstone
Tim Dutton
CinematographyAdam Santelli
Edited byDavid Spiers
Music by Guy Farley
Production
companies
Film Development Corporation
Isle of Man Film Commission
Vine International Pictures
Distributed by Lionsgate Home Entertainment
Release date
  • 27 August 1999 (1999-08-27)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Darkness Falls is a 1999 British drama film by John Howlett, very loosely adapted from N. J. Crisp's psychological thriller Dangerous Obsession and directed by Gerry Lively. [1] The film was shot in late 1997 on the Isle of Man.

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Plot

With his pregnant wife at death's door after a car crash, desperate husband John Barrett (Ray Winstone) invades the home of Mark Driscoll (Tim Dutton) and holds both Driscoll and his rich, neglected wife Sally (Sherilyn Fenn) hostage in order to understand the events that led to his wife ending up in a coma.

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References

  1. "Darkness Falls: A Dangerous Obsession (1998)". rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 8 August 2013.