Meeting Evil
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| Directed by | Chris Fisher |
| Produced by | Justin Bursch Mike Callaghan Brad Krevoy Reuben Liber Jimmy Townsend Roman Viaris-de-Lesegno |
| Written by | Chris Fisher |
| Starring | Samuel L. Jackson Luke Wilson |
| Music by | Ryan Beveridge |
| Cinematography | Marvin V. Rush |
| Edited by | Miklos Wright |
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| Distributed by | Magnet Releasing, Magnolia Pictures |
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Release date
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30 March 2012 4 May 2012 (USA) |
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Running time
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89 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Box office | $525 |
Meeting Evil is a 2012 mystery thriller film directed by Chris Fisher. It is based on the 1992 novel Meeting Evil by Thomas Berger. It stars Samuel L. Jackson and Luke Wilson.
John Felton (Luke Wilson), who lives in Orly County, in an unnamed southern state, has a wife named Joanie (Leslie Bibb), and two kids named Sam (Gabrielle Harvey) and John Jr. (Sam Robbins). John is a mild-mannered real estate agent who has just been fired, making his personal crisis—his marriage is on the rocks due to his infidelity—go from bad to worse.
John comes home and finds a foreclosure notice on the front door, and goes inside to a surprise birthday party thrown by Joanie and the kids. The foreclosure notice has John angry, so Joanie takes the kids to a local park.
As John is in the backyard, staring at the hole that's being dug for the swimming pool he's having installed, there is an incessant banging on the front door. John answers, and it's a man who calls himself Richie (Samuel L. Jackson). He's wearing a suit and a fedora. Richie says his car, a 1972 Pontiac GTO broke down and requires a push. As John pushes the car from the back while Richie steers, the car backfires, injuring John's left knee. Richie opens the trunk of his car and approaches John concealing a revolver behind his back but hides it when he sees a little girl.
Richie offers to take John to the hospital, and he reluctantly accepts, not realizing that he's leaving his wallet and cell phone behind at the house. On the way, John wonders about Richie's strange behavior—Richie is continuously "whistling Dixie"—and Richie stops at a bar. John goes across the street to a cell phone dealership, where Rhonda (Tina Parker), a clerk with a severe attitude problem, rudely denies him the use of a phone to call Joanie.
At the bar, John crosses paths with Trevor (Jason Alan Smith), the man who fired him, and Tammy Strate (Peyton List), the woman with whom he cheated on Joanie. Tammy was Trevor's girlfriend before she left Trevor to be with John, a possible reason why Trevor fired him.
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