Remember On Golden Pond? Well, October Gale
is sorta like that—except the husband is dead and the young man who
comes to visit the idyllic country getaway is a fugitive with a gunshot
wound. Oh, and the wife is a crack shot who has to defend herself when a
figurative and literal storm brews outside.
Okay, so maybe it’s nothing like On Golden Pond. There aren’t even any loons—unless you count Tim Roth.
In the exclusive trailer for the thriller, Patricia Clarkson plays
the recently widowed doctor who heads to her Canadian cottage for the
first time since her husband’s death. A bleeding hunk (Scott Speedman)
washes ashore, and as a gale bears down on them, Roth’s frightening
Canuck closes in to finish the job. Directed by Ruba Nadda, who directed
Clarkson in
Cairo Time,
October Gale debuted at the
Toronto Film Festival.