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This Tempting Madness

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This Tempting Madness

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Summary

After waking from a coma with memory gaps, a woman tries to piece together her past as she begins to question what is real.

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Dave Golder

A woman with memory issues after a severe head trauma refuses to believe her husband tried to kill her in this overwrought psychological thriller. After Mia (Simone Ashley) falls from an airport balcony, her husband (Austin Stowell) is arrested on suspicion of having pushed her. But Mia's fractured memory means she can't recall what actually happened, and the more she learns, the more she starts doubting her own perception of reality and how far she can trust her family and the police. The film opens with a caption claiming it's "inspired by actual events," but this is not a true story. It's a fanciful, lurid plot wildly spun off from a real-life accident (and the resulting memory issues) suffered by a friend of writer/director Jennifer E Montgomery. This is an engaging enough mystery-box thriller - well-acted, edgy and full of artful recurring motifs, with a nicely fractured narrative and some of the best transitions into flashbacks since Highlander. But strip all that away, and at heart it's a silly contemporary gothic melodrama with a clearly tenuous relationship to "actual events".

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Cast

rolenameMiaSimone AshleyAjaySuraj SharmaJakeAustin StowellDetective ColtonMojean AriaLakshmiZenobia ShroffRajAmol ShahAuroraNiya BrahmbhattAuroraNara BrahmbhattGemmaAuden ThorntonSamanthaBevin Bru

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Crew

rolenameDirectorJennifer E. MontgomeryWriterAndrew DavisWriterJennifer E. MontgomeryProducerMarcei A. BrownProducerMimi ChangProducerAndrew DavisProducerWilliam Day FrankComposerRebekka KarijordDirector of photographyAndrew DavisEditorKiran PallegaddaProduction designerKevin Bird

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Languages

English

Guidance

Violence, swearing

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Colour

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