Squatters | |
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Directed by | Martin Weisz |
Written by | Justin Shilton |
Produced by | Cordula Betz Todd Moyer Julius R. Nasso Martin Weisz |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Harold Skinner |
Edited by | Carsten Kurpanek |
Music by | Mario Grigorov |
Distributed by | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Squatters is a 2014 American direct-to-video independent drama film directed by Martin Weisz and starring Gabriella Wilde, [1] Thomas Dekker, [2] Richard Dreyfuss, [3] and Luke Grimes. [4]
Two runway foster kids, Jonas (Thomas Dekker) and Kelly (Gabrielle Wilde), raised as siblings live homeless in Venice Beach and begin squatting in a mansion in the Pacific Palisades when Jonas overhears Evelyn revealing door access codes to a nanny before leaving on vacation. They take advantage of the situation, trying to sell items to British gangster Ronald (Andrew Howard) but have to bolt when the homeowners return from vacation early. Kelly begins a relationship with the unsuspecting couple's son, Michael, who she meets by chance in an Americana theater that screens looping Charlie Chaplin films. Michael and his parents are guilt stricken over the loss of the daughter, Stephanie (Gia Mantegna) who died from a drug overdose, and they allow Kelly into the house, fostering the relationship oblivious that she's the original intruder. Ronald threatens Jonas' life over failure to deliver a promised vehicle so he visits the house, confronts Michael's father for the keys and takes Kelly away to Ronald's house, where Kelly calls the police clandestinely. When police arrive, they engage Ronald and an accomplice in a firefight; both are fatally shot, but not before Ronald brutally beats Kelly. Kelly then goes to jail and Michael later welcomes her back.
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