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Return to Sender (2015 film)

Return to Sender
Returned to Sender.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Fouad Mikati
Produced by
  • Candice Abela
  • Holly Wiersma
Written by
  • Patricia Beauchamp
  • Joe Gossett
Starring
Music by Daniel Hart
Production
company
Boo Pictures
Distributed by
Release date
  • May 22, 2015 (2015-05-22) (UK)
Running time
95 minutes

Return to Sender is a 2015 American psychological thriller film directed by Fouad Mikati and starring Rosamund Pike and Nick Nolte. The film was released in the United Kingdom on May 22, 2015 and in the United States on August 14, 2015.

Miranda Wells is a nurse living in a small town. She is about to become a surgical nurse and is buying a new house. She's single and her friend sets her up on a blind date with a man named Kevin. On the day of the date, while she's still getting ready, Miranda hears someone outside on the porch. She opens the door and finds someone, who she assumes is Kevin, standing there and invites him in. She offers him lemonade and goes into her bedroom to finish dressing. While she is changing, he notices packing boxes in the house and asks her if she is moving. She replies that she is, and when she comes out of her room she sees he is blocking the door. She starts to feel uneasy and asks him to leave and come back later for their date. He refuses, but she insists that he leave so she can finish getting ready. He walks to the door and locks it. He then attacks and rapes her. Later he is seen running away from the house as someone else comes to the door and knocks. The door is ajar and the man, Kevin, comes in calling out for Miranda. He finds her in the kitchen and calls the police. Miranda is next seen in the hospital, beaten, and having a rape kit and photos taken by the police. The police ask if she had ever seen the man before, and she says that, actually, she had. They quickly promptly go and arrest the rapist, William Finn.

Miranda tries to carry on as normal. Her real estate agent tells her that they can't sell her house now as no one wants to buy a house where someone was just raped. While icing a cake at home she notices a tremor in her right hand and realizes that she can't work in surgery because of it. She decides to write a letter to William in prison, and on mailing the letter she smiles.

She starts making changes in her life and home, trying to move on. She has shutters fitted on her windows and her father, Mitchell, tries to fix a swing that her dead mother was fond of. Miranda objects, as she only wants new things in her house, and they fight.

Miranda's letter to William keeps being returned to sender. She continues to resend the letter and finally receives a response and goes to visit William. He apologizes repeatedly for what he did to her and she begins to visit him regularly. They become friendly and flirt with each other during her visits. While in prison, William has also been abusing his cell mate without the knowledge of the officers and is eventually released on parole.


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