Deadline (2012 film)
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Deadline film poster
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| Directed by | Curt Hahn |
| Produced by | Molly M. Mayeux Curt Hahn |
| Screenplay by | Mark Ethridge |
| Based on |
Grievances by Mark Ethridge |
| Starring |
Eric Roberts Steve Talley Anna Felix Lauren Jenkins J.D. Souther David Dwyer Jeremy Childs |
| Music by | Dave Perkins |
| Cinematography | Paul Marschall |
| Edited by | Robert Gordon |
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Transcendent
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| Distributed by |
Freestyle Releasing (U.S.) Curb Entertainment (International) |
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Running time
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95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Deadline is a 2012 American mystery drama film directed by Curt Hahn. The screenplay was written by former Charlotte Observer managing editor Mark Ethridge, basing it upon his novel Grievances, which was inspired by actual events. The film stars Steve Talley and Academy Award nominee Eric Roberts.
Deadline is the story of the murder of an African American youth in rural Alabama that has gone uninvestigated, unsolved, and unpunished for almost twenty years. That changes when Nashville Times reporter Matt Harper (Steve Talley) meets an idealistic young blueblood bent on discovering the truth. Harper undertakes the investigation despite the opposition of his publisher, violent threats from mysterious forces, a break-up with his fiancée, and his father's cancer diagnosis.
Young newsparer reporter Matt Harper (Steve Talley) is dispatched from Nashville to cover the murder of the police chief of Amos, Alabama. There he meets Trey Hall (Lauren Jenkins), a 21-year-old "blue blood" who lives on her family's hunting plantation. She wants Matt to investigate the nearly 20-year-old unsolved killing of a black teenager, Wallace Sampson (Romonte Hamer). Matt believes solving the murder will jump start his career, and he begins to investigate. Being distracted, he forgets an appointment related to his upcoming wedding, which casuses his fiancée Delana Calhoun (Anna Felix) to call off their engagement.
Matt asks his editor, Walker Burns (Jeremy Childs), to let him look into the murder. While Burns notes that Matt is already on thin ice with the publisher (David Ditmore) for a lack of productivity, Burns allows Matt some time to investigate, on the condition that politically incorrect reporter Ronnie Bullock (Eric Roberts) accompany him.
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