Directed by:
Steve AndersonScreenplay:
Steve AndersonCinematography:
Patrick Meade JonesComposer:
Enis RotthoffCast:
Olivia Thirlby, John Carroll Lynch, Jennifer Beals, Janina Gavankar, Nichelle Nichols, Rachael Taylor, Raymond J. Barry, Hale Appleman, Hayley Derryberry (more)VOD (2)
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The introverted and plain 30-year-old Claire (Olivia Thirlby) works as a social services investigator. One day she gets a file of the unsolved brutal murder of a young girl known as the White Orchid. She is immediately fascinated by the case and the investigation of the mysterious crime becomes her obsession. The second feature film of American screenwriter, director and producer Steve Anderson was made as well as his neo-noir Los Angeles based debut This Last Lonely Place (2014) under the auspices of The Estate of Humphrey Bogart organization, managed by the son of the famous Hollywood era actor. The intricate tale of not just one fateful woman captures one´s attention with a clever point and a mood coming from the photogenic locations of the Californian town of Morro Bay with an iconic rock, as well as San Francisco, where the investigation leads the heroine. A knowledgeable viewer will be pleased by the references to Vertigo (1958) or The Black Dahlia (2006). (Noir Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Olivia Thirlby
USA
Best movies:
United 93 (2006)
Oppenheimer (2023)
Juno (2007)
John Carroll Lynch
USA
Best movies:
Gran Torino (2008)
Shutter Island (2010)
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
Jennifer Beals
USA
Best movies:
In the Soup (1992)
Runaway Jury (2003)
Four Rooms (1995)
Janina Gavankar
USA
Best movies:
The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2017)
Who's Afraid of Vagina Wolf? (2013)
Blindspotting (2018)
Nichelle Nichols
USA
Best movies:
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
Porgy and Bess (1959)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Rachael Taylor
Australia
Best movies:
Red Dog (2011)
Transformers (2007)
Gold (2016)
Raymond J. Barry
USA
Best movies:
The X-Files – File 5: 82517 (1995) (video compilation)
Falling Down (1993)
Dead Man Walking (1995)
Hale Appleman
USA
Best movies:
White Orchid (2018)
Private Romeo (2011)
Teeth (2007)
Hayley Derryberry
Best movies:
Crazy Heart (2009)
Friendship! (2010)
Frank (2014)
Jana Winternitz
Best movies:
The Thinning (2016)
The Thinning: New World Order (2018)
White Orchid (2018)
Timo Chen
Best movies:
White Orchid (2018)
Ricardo Chacon
Best movies:
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
It's Complicated (2009)
Until the Night (2004)
Brendan Sexton III
USA
Best movies:
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Josh Mandel
Best movies:
White Orchid (2018)
Kelsey Siepser
Best movies:
White Orchid (2018)
Jeff Marchelletta
USA
Best movies:
White Orchid (2018)
Out at the Wedding (2007)
Talk Dirty (2003) (TV movie)
Cris D'Annunzio
USA
Best movies:
American Gangster (2007)
Straight Outta Compton (2015)
Across the Universe (2007)
Michael Rodrick
USA
Best movies:
White Orchid (2018)
The Instigators (2024)
The River Murders (2011)