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Surveillance is a american film of genre Thriller directed by Jennifer Lynch released in USA on 8 february 2008 with Bill Pullman
Surveillance (2008)
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Add to a movie listSurveillance is an independent thriller that is set in the Nebraska plains of the United States (US). The film is directed by Jennifer Lynch and stars Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Michael Ironside, and French Stewart. The film premiered "out of competition" and appeared in a midnight slot at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. Surveillance is Lynch's second feature film, following a fifteen-year break after Boxing Helena.
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A series of violent deaths and the disappearance of a young woman bring FBI agents Hallaway (Bill Pullman) and Anderson (Julia Ormond) to a town in rural Nebraska. They meet the three survivors of a mysterious bloodbath; the young Stephanie (Ryan Simpkins), the cocaine-addicted Bobbi (Pell James), and the foul-mouthed police officer Bennett (Kent Harper). Hallaway watches the trio's respective interviews with Captain Billings (Michael Ironside) and officers Wright (Charlie Newmark) and Degrasso (Gill Gayle), where they tell the story of what brought them there:Actors
Bill Pullman
(Sam Hallaway)
Julia Ormond
(Elisabeth Anderson)
Pell James
(Bobbi Prescott)
Michael Ironside
(Billings)
Caroline Aaron
(Janet)
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