Watchtower (2001 film)

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Watchtower
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Directed by George Mihalka
Written byRod Browning
Robert Geoffrion
Dan Witt
Produced byJohn A. Curtis
Richard O. Lowry
Evan Taylor
Evan Tylor
Starring
CinematographyPeter Benison
Edited byGlenn Berman
Music byMichel Cusson
Production
companies
Alliance Atlantis Communications
Frontline Entertainment
GFT Entertainment
H30 Filmed Entertainment Inc.
Le Monde Entertainment
Distributed by Alliance Atlantis Communications
Release dates
  • December 19, 2001 (2001-12-19)
(Greece)
  • April 30, 2002 (2002-04-30)
(US)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
Budget$CAD5,100,000 (estimated) [1]

Watchtower (also known as Cruel and Unusual) is a 2001 Canadian thriller film [2] directed by George Mihalka and starring Tom Berenger, Rachel Hayward and Tygh Runyan.

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Premise

A brother and sister move to a sleepy Oregon town and are befriended by a stranger with a magnetic personality on a summer sabbatical.

Cast

Reception

Moria.co gave the film a good review. Watchtower got three stars and the reviewer stated: "Watchtower/Cruel and Unusual offers Mihalka the best budget he has ever had to date and he does wonders with it. There is some particularly beautiful and impressive location scenery – despite being set in Seattle, the film is in actuality shot a little further up the coast in the somberly beautiful area of Vancouver Island, where Mihalka does a fine job of capturing the verisimilitude of a small fishing town." [3]

Reviewer M. Lion of the website chickflickingreviews.com called it a "well made movie" and noted that the twists were "quite fun". [4]


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References

  1. "Budget". IMDB. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
  2. "Watchtower (2001)". 11 September 2003.
  3. "WATCHTOWER aka CRUEL AND UNUSUAL". Moria.co. 11 September 2003. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
  4. "Movie Review: "Cruel and Unusual" (Aka "Watchtower")". 2 January 2014.