Opens in Limited U.S. Cinema Release and on VOD April 12, 2019
BAFTA Award-winner Andrew Scott (Sherlock, Spectre) stars in A DARK PLACE, a new crime thriller about a man’s quest to uncover the truth about the disappearance of a young boy in a sleepy Pennsylvania town. This movie is set to open in U.S. cinemas and on VOD April 12, 2019.
Directed by Simon Fellows and produced by Gareth Ellis-Unwin (The King’s Speech), Leon Clarance (Sense8), Tai Duncan (Proud Mary), and Mark Williams (The Accountant), this gripping film is propelled by Scott’s deeply layered performance as a troubled, obsessive soul. Andrew Scott stars as Donald, alongside Bronagh Waugh (The Fall) as Donna, Denise Gough (Colette, and the upcoming Game of Thrones prequel) as Linda.
When a young boy turns up dead in a sleepy Western Pennsylvania town, Donald, a local garbage truck driver, takes it upon himself to play detective. He embarks on an obsessive investigation to prove that the boy has been murdered, leading to unthinkable and harrowing consequences.
From director Simon Fellows (God the Father, Malice in Wonderland) comes A DARK PLACE, a neo-noir thriller about a man’s quest to uncover the truth about the disappearance of a young boy in a sleepy Pennsylvania town.
Donald Devlin is a garbage man in the fictional town of Harburgh, Pennsylvania, a former steel town that has seen brighter days. A single father, Donny spends his days collecting the trash of the residents alongside his best friend, Donna Reutzel, and in his off-time, focuses his energies on being the best father he can be to his young daughter, Wendy.
But when young Tyler Zeigler, a neighborhood boy, goes missing, Donny starts to fixate on finding out what has happened to him. With the local sheriff warning him off, and the town reacting to the young boy’s disappearance in a variety of confusing and suspicious ways, Donny determines to learn the truth. But the truth may not want to be revealed.