Jason Stone makes his feature film directorial debut with the thriller The Calling based on the novel by Inger Ash Wolfe and adapted for the screen by Scott Abramovitch. And in support of the film’s August 29, 2014 theatrical release, the international trailer has arrived featuring Susan Sarandon, Ellen Burstyn, Topher Grace, Gil Bellows, and Donald Sutherland.
The Plot:
Despite a bad back, a reliance on painkillers and the occasional drink to take the edge off, Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef (Sarandon) leads a tranquil existence sharing a home with her elderly mother, Emily (Burstyn), in Fort Dundas, Ontario. It is the epitome of a quaint and quiet town, but all of that is suddenly upended. As the interim commanding officer of an understaffed police force, Micallef, out on a routine call, discovers the grisly body of an elderly woman. The murder is shocking in its brutality.
As Micallef and her investigative team, including seasoned detective Ray Greene (Bellows) and new arrival to Fort Dundas, Ben Wingate (Grace), learn of more victims in rural towns across the country, they realize they are tracking a serial killer driven by a higher calling. Dealing with small town bureaucracy while galvanizing her troops, she enlists the help of Father Price (Sutherland) in her fearless pursuit of a religious madman they’ve come to know only as Simon (Christopher Heyerdahl).
-By Rebecca Murray
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