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Zaidi/Berry/Cirrincione
PRODUCTION
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Geoffrey Sax
FILM
STARRING
HALLE BERRY
STELLAN SKARSGÅRD
PHYLICIA RASHAD
CHANDRA WILSON
ROSALYN COLEMAN
JOANNE BARON
BRIAN MARKINSON
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DIRECTED BY
GEOFFREY SAX
SCREENPLAY BY
CHERYL EDWARDS and
MARKO KING &
MARY KING &
JONATHAN WATTERS and
JOE SCHRAPNEL &
ANNA WATERHOUSE
STORY BY OSCAR JANIGER &
PHILIP GOLDBERG and
CHERYL EDWARDS
PRODUCED BY
SIMON DeKARIC
VINCENT CIRRINCIONE
HALLE BERRY
HASSAIN ZAIDI
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
SHAWN WILLIAMSON
BRENDAN FERGUSON
JOHN ROY
ABHI RASTOGI
MICHAEL LEVY
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
NEWTON THOMAS SIGEL, ASC
CO-PRODUCTION DESIGNERS
LINDA DEL ROSARIO
RICHARD PARIS
EDITOR
DAVID RICHARDSON
COSTUME DESIGNER
RUTH E. CARTER
MUSIC COMPOSED BY
ANDREW LOCKINGTON
MUSIC SUPERVISOR
NATASHA DUPREY
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CASTING BY
JULI-ANN KAY, C.S.A./C.D.C.
RUNNING TIME:
101 MINUTES
RATING
RATED R FOR SOME SEXUAL CONTENT, LANGUAGE AND DRUG USE.
Synopsis
From Lionsgate, Codeblack Films and the executive producers of “Introducing Dorothy
Dandridge” and “Lackawanna Blues” comes a mind-bending drama starring Academy Award®
winner and Golden Globe® nominee Halle Berry The Call, Monster’s Ball. FRANKIE &
ALICE is inspired by the remarkable true story of an African American go-go dancer "Frankie"
with dissociative identity disorder (DID) who struggles to remain her true self while fighting
against two very unique alter egos: a seven-year-old child named “Genius” and a Southern white
racist woman named “Alice.” In order to stop the multiple voices in her head, Frankie (Halle
Berry) works together with a psychotherapist (Stellan Skarsgård) to uncover and overcome the
mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.
Always at the forefront of women’s issues, Halle Berry, Academy Award®-winning actress
turned film producer, produces and stars in FRANKIE & ALICE, a must-see, award-worthy
psychological drama inspired by a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder in early
1970s Los Angeles.
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About the Production
When Halle Berry first learned about the true story of one woman's struggle with DID, the
actress and producer knew this was a film she wanted to make. "It affected me in a profound
way. I identified with being a child of a mixed race family and I related to the character." Berry
saw Frankie, the young African-American woman with an alter personality that was an angry
white racist, as a microcosm of the many issues affecting people of mixed race. "It's an issue
that's been swirling around me my entire life. She was fascinating to me and seemed like a
character that I could breathe life into because I have a fundamental understanding of the chaos
of her situation."
A highly sought after project in Hollywood, the rights to the story slipped in and out of Berry's
hands half a dozen times over a decade long period before principal photography on FRANKIE
& ALICE began in October 2008. In fact, production had been slated to commence more than a
year earlier, but Berry became pregnant and, uncertain how she'd feel as a new mother, she was
not prepared at the time to commit to a future project. But several months after her daughter was
born, Berry was ready to make the film.
She says: "It's been a long journey for me and I've been relentless. I didn't want to let go, even
though, at times it seemed like I should. I kept in the game and I kept fighting and believing that
this was an important story to tell."
Berry's manager and producing partner, Vincent Cirrincione, says, "FRANKIE & ALICE is a
dream project for Halle and me. And Zaidi is the reason it happened."
Cirrincione is referring to fellow producer and principal of Access Motion Pictures, Hassain
Zaidi, who is familiarly called "Zaidi.”
The producers first met on the set of Gothika. Zaidi and Simon DeKaric, his partner at Access,
told Cirrincione, "we'd love to do a project with Halle."
Cirrincione smiles, "everyone who's in show business wants to make a movie with Halle Berry.
But this time it actually happened!" Cirrincione points out that in the current climate, "It's hard
to get a period piece with a female lead made. But Zaidi never gave up. It's out of a storybook."
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For his part, Zaidi loved the project's pitch. "It's such a ride, and Halle's probably the only
actress in Hollywood that could play this role. Her performance is amazing. Halle was meant to
play this character."
While searching for the right director, Berry and Cirrincione came across Tipping the Velvet, a
BBC mini-series directed by Geoffrey Sax. "We couldn't stop watching," says Berry. "It was
amazing."
Sax flew to Los Angeles to meet the producers and Berry was struck by his passion for the
character. She admits to having had some concerns that, as an English man, he might not have
an understanding of Los Angeles in the seventies and the plight of Black people at that time.
"But he understood the times and the situation fundamentally and he was very educated. Having
been an actor himself, he also has a good way with actors, so he understands the words to use to
get them to respond. He knows how to speak to them."
Sax fell in love with the project. "Straight away I knew it had the potential of being a
spectacular piece. It's very performance-driven, with a fascinating central character, and the fact
that Halle Berry was attached made me want to do it."
Halle Berry stars as Frankie Murdoch, a woman struggling with dissociative identity disorder
(DID) who has three distinct personalities.
While she lives and works in the exotic, edgy world of a go-go club in 1973 Los Angeles,
Frankie seems quite together when we first meet her. "She is a survivor," says Berry, "She's not
a victim by any means. But she hasn't quite realized the dream for herself. She's smart and
manages to be the kingpin of her environment. At the club, she's learned to make the most
money, and she's the one the other girls want to be around and be like."
But Frankie can't make the pieces of her life connect and she knows that something is terribly
wrong. There are moments she can't explain and lapses of time she can't remember.
When Frankie is arrested and finds herself facing possible jail time, her only alternative is to
check herself into a mental institution. She decides on the hospital and there she begins an
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extraordinary journey of discovery with Dr. Oz, the brilliant psychiatrist who is at first reluctant
to treat her.
A research scientist with rusty doctor patient skills, Dr. Oz soon realizes that Frankie presents an
extraordinary case. He discovers three distinct personalities: “Frankie,” the main or host
personality; “Alice,” a white racist from the Deep South; and “Genius,” an adolescent with an
astonishing IQ.
Oz believes his patient presents DID and, even though his medical colleagues are skeptical, Oz
persists in working with Frankie. With Oz's help, Frankie finds the courage to face a repressed,
past trauma so devastating and deeply buried that it has caused aspects of herself to split apart
into separate personalities.
Berry describes Alice as being "in the most pain of all of the ‘alters.’ " She is suffering in a way
that the others aren't because she's suffering with her identity and the understanding of who she
is. She is trapped in a body she doesn't want to be in and she masks that pain with a selfrighteous, holier-than-thou, I am better than you attitude, but it is born out of pain and sadness.
"Genius, the third ‘alter,’ is a child and helper that wants to see Frankie do well and be taken care
of," says Berry. "All of the alters are really facets of Frankie that have just split off due to
trauma. Genius is the intellectual side of Frankie that has manifested in the form of her child
self."
In the multiple roles of Frankie and her alter personalities, Academy Award®-winning actress
Halle Berry delivers a breathtaking tour-de-force performance. Most of the scenes in which
Frankie transforms into Alice or Genius were filmed continuously, with little or no cutting.
Director Geoffrey Sax says he was careful not to do anything different with the camera for
different personalities because, "I firmly believed that right from the start, we shouldn't help the
performance with the camera in any way. Everything should happen in real time so that when
Frankie changes into Alice or into Genius, we don't suddenly go in a low angle and bring in
thunder and lightning and spooky lighting. It's all done in performance, and hopefully, we'll get
something that's pure performance.”
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"Because it does happen in such an ordinary way," he adds, commenting on the observations he
made while researching DID before filming began. Berry shared some of her research with the
director, including a program which showed a number of people with the disorder. "The first
thing that struck me was that it looked like they were acting," says Sax, "but you realize very
quickly they are not acting."
Having spent a decade trying to develop the project, Berry did a great deal of research into DID.
But she admits that her preparation for the extraordinary role was not all that out of the ordinary.
She says, "The preparation for this was unlike any other in a couple of ways, but very much like
every other role in that you take a script and a character and you break it down and create a life
for the character, a history." Berry keeps a journal about each character she plays, creating their
life and their world, down to the smallest detail. The difference for FRANKIE & ALICE was,
"I had to do that three times to come up with three distinctly different characters.” "I had to be
able to transform seamlessly from one to the other. The challenge was how to do that without
making it cartoonish and how to keep it real and honest." To do that, she watched hours of tape
of people suffering from DID. "What I found out is that slipping from one personality to the
other is really not as theatrical as one might think. It happens matter-of-factly, and there's
nothing silly or over the top about it. It's just very simple the way they ease in and out of
personalities. With this movie, I hope to bring that kind of reality to it and make the switch as
simple as I've seen it in real life."
Sax concurs, adding that, "In order to dramatize the transition, we had to find a way to make it
believable. In real life, they just switch very quickly. They'll suddenly be one person and then
they'll be straight into someone else. There's no big body language."
As they set to work together, Sax was pleased to discover that they had the same ideas on how
the story should go, and he notes, "Halle is incredibly focused. This is a project she'd been
wanting to do for a number of years and her research was meticulous, as was her preparation.
So, the actual day-to-day shooting was made a lot easier because she was so prepared. She knew
the character beats and the way the story goes exactly and so it was quite an experience."
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Casting the pivotal role of Dr. Oz, the psychiatrist determined to help Frankie, was admittedly a
challenge and Berry couldn't have been more delighted when she learned that Stellan Skarsgård
would co-star. "I think I burst into tears, I was so happy," she says. "Stellan is an amazing actor
and I couldn't have hoped for a better actor or one more committed."
Swedish actor Skarsgård has starred in an array of Hollywood and European motion pictures,
most recently opposite Meryl Streep in the smash hit musical Mamma Mia!, Skarsgård has been
honored with major prizes at film festivals around the world and his many movies include:
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, The
Hunt For Red October, Breaking the Waves, Amistad, The Unbearable Lightness of Being and
Good Will Hunting.
For his part, Skarsgård loved the script: "It's very well written and very playable. All of the
characters, even the smaller roles, had a life of their own and there were lots of possibilities for
actors to do stuff between the lines."
He was also delighted to work with his co-star. "There are some actors in the world that are the
real McCoy. Everything they do is truthful and honest and you can read their personality and
thoughts in their faces. Halle is one of those actors and it's a blessing working with an actress
like that because all you have to do is look at them and then answer to them you become much
better yourself."
"Stellan is a delight to work with," says Sax. "He's a great Oz. We were looking for someone
who was vulnerable and complex and who also had a sense of humor and he's fulfilled all those
roles. Like Halle, he's incredibly focused and prepared."
Skarsgård was equally delighted to work with Sax. "He's got a very good ear for when a scene
works rhythmically and when it's truthful and when there's life in it. And he's very patient. He
lets you do a scene over and over again until you feel comfortable in it and it starts to swing and
rock. He just waits you out, and every now and then he comes and says something small and it's
usually exactly the word you need."
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Skarsgård describes his character, Dr. Oz as being clumsy, both with patients and people in
general. "Oz takes everything literally and doesn't understand irony. He's very cerebral and not
in touch with his own feelings. Frankie breaks him down to a certain extent, and as he opens her
up and helps her see who she is." He hopes audiences will come away with a sense of two
people "coming off a little better at the end than they were in the beginning. There is some kind
of love relationship."
In FRANKIE & ALICE, two people come together and drastically affect the course of each
other's life. "When you meet Frankie and Oz, they're both like the walking dead," says Berry.
"They're disconnected, unattached and looking for something they don't have. They're looking to
be alive and they come together and help each other. They actually develop a relationship that is
really profound because they both grow as a result. They both come alive as a result of meeting
each other. It's not a love story, but it's a human story.”
"And, because it's a true story," Berry continues, "I can tell you those two people were
connected. The real doctor died a few years ago, but he was connected to her until the day he
died. It was a bond that really meant a lot to both of them."
Issues of race are central too. In the Deep South of the 1950s, Frankie grows up in the home of
the wealthy, white Prescott family where her mother is a servant. When young Frankie and the
Prescott's teenage son, Pete, fall in love, they run away together because they know their
relationship will never be accepted. While they're full of hope, tragedy strikes the young lovers
and Pete is killed in a car crash.
Two decades later, Frankie lives and works in Los Angeles. While some progress had been
made in race relations, in the early 1970s there were still miles to go. Director Geoffrey Sax
comments on how her race affected Frankie's medical treatment: "The doctors would
automatically assume that because she's a Black stripper from Watts, she's going to be taking
drugs. That's one of the suppositions, and it's an erroneous one. Key to this story is that we have
a doctor who is very open-minded and thinks that there's much more at stake."
Halle Berry couldn't be happier things have changed so much since then, pointing out that, "it's
totally different today, we now have our first Black President." In fact, to celebrate the historic
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event, Berry supplied champagne at lunch on November 5th, the day after the 2008 election, and
she and the cast and crew raised a glass to toast the election of Barack Obama.
When we first meet Frankie in the seventies, she's a dancer in a Los Angeles go-go club.
Choreographer Kim Blank, who was nominated for an Emmy® Award when she previously
worked with Berry on TV’s “Introducing Dorothy Dandridge,” worked with Berry for some two
months to prepare Frankie's signature go-go dance routine. Berry was determined to dance for
the entire length of Marvin Gaye's classic "Let's Get it On," which is nearly four minutes long,
and did so for every single take on the day the scene was filmed.
"I wanted to do that dance all day long," says Berry, and she did! She declined the production's
offer to provide a dance double. "I thought it was really important to do that dance myself — it's
the introduction to the character Frankie." Berry says she worked hard to get the beats right and
"Make it sensual enough to have it be what stripping "go-go dancing" was in the seventies. It's
very different than it is today."
She admits, "It was a long day." And she suffered some internal bruising on her legs from the
rigorous workout. But, she adds, "It was really rewarding to know that I did all that myself and
it will make a difference not to have to cut away because someone else is dancing."
Cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel, who had filmed Berry twice previously on the first and
second X-Men movies, admires the actress. "She plays three characters in one body, going very
deep and creating some very emotional portrayals. Playing all these characters is a brave journey
for an actress. But it's been breathtaking and extraordinary to watch her transform so effortlessly
from one character to another."
Sigel, who also operates the camera on his movies, recalls commenting on how she had lifted an
eyebrow in one take, to which Berry replied that she didn't know she could do it. Sigel says,
"Halle literally can't do it, unless she's in the character of Alice. That's how deep she went into
it."
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About the Cast
HALLE BERRY (Frankie Murdoch, Alice, Genius) – Academy Award®-winning actress Halle
Berry continues to break down barriers with a multitude of critically acclaimed, diverse roles and
continued success at the box office. For her brilliant performance in Monster’s Ball, she won the
Academy Award® for Best Actress, as well as the SAG Award, the Berlin Silver Bear Award and
was named Best Actress by the National Board of Review. No stranger to accolades, Berry
earned the Emmy®, Golden Globe®, SAG and NAACP Image Award for her extraordinary
performance in HBO’s telefilm, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, which she also produced, and
was nominated for a Golden Globe® for Best Actress for her role in FRANKIE &
ALICE. Berry has tackled some of Hollywood’s toughest roles making her one of today’s most
sought after leading ladies.
In 2010, Berry starred in the drama FRANKIE AND ALICE, alongside Stellan Skarsgård. The
film will be re-release in theaters on April 4th, 2014. Berry’s performance is based on the true
story of a young woman with dissociative identity disorder (DID) who struggles to remain her
true self and not give in to her alternate-personalities and earned her a Golden Globe®
nomination. She is also credited as a producer on the film. Next, Berry will be seen in the highly
anticipated X-Men: Days of Future Past, reprising her role of 'Storm'. In this installment, the XMen must travel in time to change a major historical event that could globally impact man and
mutant kind. The film is slated for release on May 23, 2014.
Currently, Berry is the co-executive producer and star in Steven Spielberg’s futuristic thriller
television series “Extant.” The one-hour drama centers on a female astronaut trying to reconnect
with her family after she returns home after a year in space. Her experiences lead to events that
ultimately change the course of human history. “Extant” is slated to premiere on CBS on
Wednesday, July 2nd.
Berry recently starred in the hit Sony Pictures thriller, The Call, in which she plays an emergency
operator who must confront a killer from her past in order to save a girl’s life. Berry was
previously seen in the Warner Bros. film Cloud Atlas alongside Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon,
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Hugh Grant, directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski’s. The film, which earned Berry a
2013 NAACP Outstanding Actress nomination, follows six stories set in a different time and
place that become intricately related to each other.
In 2007, Berry was seen in the drama, Things We Lost in the Fire opposite Benicio Del Toro.
The film, which was written by Sam Mendes and directed by Susanne Bier, follows a woman
who befriends her husband’s drug addicted, childhood friend after his untimely death. Her
moving performance as a widow gained her acclaim and praise from critics and fans alike.
Also in 2007, Berry was seen starring opposite Bruce Willis in the thriller, Perfect Stranger.
This film follows Berry as she goes undercover to revenge the murder of her friend. The film
was released in Spring 2007 and was a box office success. Berry reprised her role as Storm in the
third installment of the X-Men series, X-Men: The Last Stand. This film, directed by Brett
Ratner, continued the franchise worldwide success, opening #1 at the box office.
In 2006, Berry received Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominations for her acting work in the
Oprah Winfrey produced movie Their Eyes Were Watching God, and as executive producer for
the HBO telefilm “Lackawanna Blues.”
Previously, Berry heated up theatres across the globe in Warner Brothers’ Catwoman and she
provided the voice of “Cappy” in the 20th Century Fox animated hit, Robots. She also starred in
the psychological thriller Gothika, which helped to cement her status as an international box
office draw. In 2002 Berry starred as “Jinx” in the James Bond feature, Die Another Day,
opposite Pierce Brosnan, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Bond franchise and becoming
the largest-grossing Bond film to date.
Critics and filmgoers first took notice of Berry in her feature film debut, Spike Lee’s Jungle
Fever. She went on to star opposite Warren Beatty in the socio-political comedy, Bulworth. Her
other film credits include Losing Isaiah opposite Jessica Lange, Executive Decision, the liveaction version of The Flinstones, The Last Boy Scout, Strictly Business, Boomerang, opposite
Eddie Murphy, and Swordfish with John Travolta and Hugh Jackman.
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Other television credits include starring in the highly-rated ABC mini-series, “Oprah Winfrey
Presents: The Wedding,” directed by Charles Burnett, as well as the title role in Alex Haley’s
mini-series, “Queen.” The latter performance earned Berry her first NAACP Image Award for
Best Actress, as well as the Best Newcomer Award from the Hollywood Women’s Press Club.
She also starred opposite Jimmy Smits in Showtime’s original telefilm, “Solomon and Sheba.”
In recognition for her achievements as an actress, the Harvard Foundation at Harvard University
honored Berry as Cultural Artist of the Year.
Berry has garnered praise not only for her numerous leading roles, but for her work with a range
of influential organizations. Berry is an active supporter and chair member of the Jenesse Center
in Los Angeles. The Jenesse Center was founded in 1980 and assists victims of domestic
violence and aims to change the pattern of abuse in the lives of women and children. Berry has
also joined forces with Novo Nordisk and the Entertainment Industry Foundation to launch the
Diabetes Aware Campaign. This national project was created to help raise awareness about
diabetes and how to help people with the disease manage it successfully. She is also an
Ambassador for the Callaway Golf Foundation for Women’s Cancer Initiative, encouraging
women to better understand their risks for ovarian cancer and educating them in how to be
proactive in the cause.
Throughout her successful career Berry has supported a vast amount of charities and
organizations such as, Revlon Run/Walk, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Afghanistan Relief
Organization, Stand Up 2 Cancer, Lance Armstrong Foundation, Love Our Children USA and
Clothes Off Our Back.
STELLAN SKARSGÅRD (Oz) - Stellan Skarsgård was most recently seen in The Girl with
The Dragon Tattoo, The Avengers, and Thor: The Dark World. Skarsgård was also seen as
Commander Richter in Angels and Demons, starring Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard.
In 2008 starred in the smash hit musical Mamma Mia! with Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan,
Goya's Ghost, with Javier Bardem and Natalie Portman, and as Bootsrap Bill in Pirates of the
Caribbean: At World's End and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, with Johnny Depp,
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Orlando Bloom, and Keira Knightley. He was also recently seen in HBO's series “Entourage,” in
the role of an eccentric German director.
Skarsgård starred in the feature Time Code, with Salma Hayek, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Saffron
Burrows, Passion of Mind, with Demi Moore, Deep Blue Sea, for director Renny Harlin, and
Aberdeen, directed by Hans Petter Moland.
Additional credits include the action adventure Ronin, with Robert De Niro, Gus Van Sant's
Oscar®-winning Good Will Hunting, and Steven Spielberg's acclaimed Amistad.
A native of Sweden, Skarsgård is considered one of the country's top stage and film actors. He
began his career with the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm where he spent 16 years working
with such leading directors as Alf Sjöberg and Ingmar Bergman. His breakthrough role came in
the 1982 Swedish film The Simpleminded Murderer, for which he received the Best Actor award
at the Berlin Film Festival.
In addition to the more than 30 films in which he starred in Sweden, Skarsgård's additional
credits include The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Hunt for Red October, The Ox (Oscar
nominated for Best Foreign Film), Breaking the Waves (which won the Grand Prix at the 1996
Cannes Film Festival), and the Norwegian Film Insomnia.
In addition to the Berlin Film Festival, Skarsgård has been honored with awards from the
Swedish motion picture industry, and the Rouen, Chicago, St. Sebastian and Telluride Film
Festivals. In 1998, he was awarded Best European Achievement in World Cinema at the
European Film Awards.
PHYLICIA RASHAD (Edna) - Whether she is bringing laughter to millions of television
viewers around the world, moving theatre-goers to tears, thrilling movie fans, offering new
insights to students by teaching Master Classes at renowned learning institutions that include
Howard University, Julliard, and Carnegie Mellon, serving on Boards of prestigious
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organizations, or breaking new ground as a director, Phylicia Rashad is one of the entertainment
world's most extraordinary performing artists.
A versatile performer, Rashad became a household name when she portrayed “Claire Huxtable”
on “The Cosby Show,” a character whose appeal has earned her numerous honors and awards for
over two decades. She teamed up with Bill Cosby in later years on television as “Ruth Lucas” on
“Cosby.” She portrayed the role of “Dr. Vanessa Young” in the NBC series, “Do No Harm.”
While television was a catalyst in the rise of Rashad's career, she has also been a force on the
stage, appearing both on and off-Broadway, often in projects that showcase her musical talent
such as "Jelly's Last Jam,” "Into The Woods,” "Dreamgirls" and "The Wiz." As a dramatic
actress, Rashad has performed on Broadway as “Violet Weston” in “August: Osage
County,” “Big Mama” in Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” (a role that she reprised
on the London Stage), “Aunt Ester” in August Wilson’s “Gem Of The Ocean,” (Tony Award®
nomination) and “Queen Britannia” in Shakespeare’s “Cymbeline” at Lincoln Center. Ms.
Rashad received both the Drama Desk and the Tony Award® for Best Actress in a Play for her
riveting performance as Lena Younger in the Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s “A
Raisin In The Sun” She appeared in Tyler Perry's Good Deeds, and starred in Perry's highly
acclaimed For Colored Girls, the film version of Ntozake Shange’s stage play For Colored Girls
Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf. Ms. Rashad has also directed plays
by August Wilson including “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” and “Fences.”
Among the awards that decorate her walls and shelves are the Texas Medal of Arts, the National
Council of Negro Women's Dorothy L. Height Dreammaker Award, AFTRA’s AMEE Award
for Excellence in Entertainment, the Board of Directors of New York Women In Film and
Television's Muse Award for Outstanding Vision and Achievement, Dallas Women In Film
Topaz Award, Peoples’ Choice Awards, several NAACP Image Awards, and the Pan African
Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Respected in the academic world, Rashad is the first recipient of the Denzel Washington Chair in
Theatre at Fordham University. She received an Honorary Doctorate from Spelman College
where First Lady Michelle Obama delivered the 2011 commencement address. Rashad also
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holds Honorary Doctorates from Fordham University, Carnegie Mellon University, Howard
University, Providence College, Morris Brown College, Clark Atlanta University, Barber Scotia
College, St. Augustine College, and Brown University. A native of Houston, Texas, Ms. Rashad
graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theater from Howard
University.
Rashad serves on the Advisory Board of the PRASAD Project and the Board of Directors of
True Colors Theatre, the Broadway Inspirational Voices, The Actors Center, the Center for
African American Studies at Princeton University, and the ADEPT Center, which is steering the
restoration of the historic Brainerd Institute.
CHANDRA WILSON (Maxine) - Chandra Wilson has earned Screen Actors Guild Actor
Awards for Best Actress in a Drama Series and Best Drama Series Ensemble, two NAACP
Image Awards, three Emmy® nominations and a BET Award nomination for her critically
acclaimed role of Dr. Miranda Bailey on “Grey's Anatomy.”
For her stage work, she won the Theatre World Award for Outstanding Debut Performance for
her portrayal of “Bonna Willis” in “The Good Times are Killing Me,” by Lynda Barry, at both
the Second Stage and Minetta Lane Theatres. In the spring of 2004, she was selected by The
New York Times as one of "8 to Watch, Onstage and Behind the Scenes." This honor came in
conjunction with the Broadway opening of “Caroline, or Change,” in which she portrayed “Dotty
Moffett,” at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. She was also in the Broadway productions of “Avenue
Q” and “On the Town.” Other stage credits include “The Miracle Worker” at Charlotte
Repertory Theatre, “Paper Moon: The Musical” at The Papermill Playhouse and “The Family of
Mann” by Theresa Rebeck at the Second Stage Theatre, Believing for the Young Playwright's
Festival at Playwrights Horizons and Little Shop of Horrors at the Falmouth Playhouse.
Wilson recently starred in “Accidental Friendship,” for the Hallmark Channel. Other television
credits include a series regular role on “Bob Patterson,” along with numerous guest appearances
on “The Sopranos,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Sex and the City,”
“Third Watch,” “100 Centre Street,” “Cosby” and “The Cosby Show.” She has also had
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recurring roles on “One Life to Live” and “Queens Supreme.” On the big screen she's had
supporting roles in the films Lone Star, directed by John Sayles, and Philadelphia, directed by
Jonathan Demme.
Born in Houston, Texas, Wilson began performing in musicals at the age of five with
Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS), where she appeared in more than 10 of their major musical
productions. At Houston's Ensemble Theatre she portrayed “Li'l Bits” in “One Monkey Don't
Stop No Show” and, in the summer of 2005, received their Rising Star honor for her
accomplishments. She graduated from Houston's High School for the Performing and Visual
Arts, and later went on to acquire her BFA in Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
There she spent four years training at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.
ROSALYN COLEMAN (Pearl) - has been seen in films such as Brooklyn's Finest, Indelible,
Vanilla Sky, Our Song, Brown Sugar, Hook'd Up and Music Of The Heart. On Broadway, she
has appeared in “RadioGolf,” “Seven Guitars,” “The Piano Lesson,” “Mule Bone” and “The
Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant.” Coleman's has guest starred in the television series’
“Kidnapped,” “D.C.,” “Oz,” “NYPD Blue,” “NY Undercover,” “Law and Order: SVU” and
“Law and Order: Criminal Intent.” In addition to acting, Coleman is also a filmmaker. She cowrote and directed the documentary, Black Sorority Project: The Exodus.
JOANNE BARON (Nurse Susan Shaw) has been in seen in films such as Spiderman 2, Drag
Me To Hell, School For Scoundrels, Real Genius, Expired, iMurders, Ungodly, In Northwood,
Perfume, and Allie and Me. Baron's television credits include “The Dorothy Dandridge Story,”
“The Ponder Heart,” “ER,” “The Shield”, “Street Time,” “Going to California,” “Strong
Medicine,” and series roles on “Lovers and Other Strangers” and “Sledgehammer.” For her
stage work, she won critics’ awards for Los Angeles performances in “Porno Stars at Home,”
“Daughters,” and “Fleas.” She won three Critic's Choice awards for performing and writing her
one woman show, “There Once Was a Girl from Pawtucket at the Tiffany Theatre.” Baron has
produced several films, including Perfume, with Jeff Goldblum, and Profoundly Normal, with
Kirstie Alley and Delroy Lindo. She also teaches, and co-owns the acting school, The Joanne
Baron/D.W. Brown Studio in Santa Monica.
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BRIAN MARKINSON (Dr. Backman) - has worked extensively with Mike Nichols, appearing
in the director's features Wolf, Primary Colors, What Planet are you From?, Nichols' Emmy®
Award-winning television production of “Angels in America,” and his off-Broadway production
of Jules Feiffer's play, “Elliot Loves.” Markinson has also appeared in three Woody Allen films:
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Small Time Crooks and Sweet and Lowdown. His extensive
television credits include guest starring on “NYPD Blue,” “Touching Evil,” “Taken,” “Girls
Club,” “Liberty Stands Still” and the pilots “Caprica” and “Shattered.” MOWs include “100
Days in the Jungle,” “The Life,” “Knights of the South Bronx,” “Witness to the Execution,”
“Mayerthorpe” and “The Tommy Douglas Story.”
MATT FREWER (Dr. Strassfield) – Has been seen starring in the Shanghai shot
action/adventure film Wushu Warrior and Zack Snyder's The Watchmen. Other film roles
include Snyder's Dawn of the Dead, playing Rick Moranis' neighbor in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,
and the nefarious computer genius in Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace. In addition to his
film roles, Frewer will always be remembered for his groundbreaking work in creating the pop
culture icon “Max Headroom.” Other television series include “Eureka and Intelligence,” and he
also starred as “Sherlock Holmes” in several TV movies. He has made guest appearances on
series such as “St. Elsewhere,” “Miami Vice” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” and he also
appeared in the PBS American Playhouse presentation “Long Shadow,” the Stephen King miniseries “The Stand,” and as “Alexander Haig” in the mini-series “Kissinger and Nixon.”
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About the Filmmakers
GEOFFREY SAX (Director) - Geoffrey Sax’s first feature film, White Noise, starring Michael
Keaton, grossed over $100 million worldwide. He followed this with Operation Stormbreaker,
starring Alex Pettyfer, Ewan McGregor, Mickey Rourke, Damien Lewis and Alicia Silverstone.
Sax has also directed a number of distinguished television dramas, including “Othello,” a
modern re-working of the play by William Shakespeare, which won the Banff Grand Jury Prize,
the Banff Best Drama Award and a coveted Peabody Award. “Christopher & His Kind” was an
Official Selection for the Los Angeles Film Festival 2011. It told the story of Christopher
Isherwood’s hedonistic time in Berlin in the 1930’s. Matt Smith (BBC TV’s Doctor Who) and
Imogen Poots starred. “Clocking Off” won the BAFTA Award for Best Drama. Sax also directed
the political satire “The New Statesman,” which won both the BAFTA Best Comedy Award and
an International Emmy.
He has directed three mini-series written by Britain's top thriller writer, Lynda La Plante,
including “Framed,” starring Timothy Dalton and Penelope Cruz. In the U.S. he directed several
television movies including “Doctor Who: The Movie,” based on the popular BBC series, and
“Broken Trust,” a courtroom drama written by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne. It starred
Tom Selleck and Marsha Mason. Sax was born in London, where he lives with his wife and two
teenage children.
MARKO KING (Screenwriter) - is a native of Los Angeles, and is a concert pianist; by the age
of 14, he moved to New York to attend the High School of Performing Arts in tandem with
Juilliard. After getting his Bachelor degree from Juilliard, he studied acting with renowned
acting coach, Penny Allen, and soon began screenwriting. In the 1990s, he moved back to Los
Angeles to pursue his writing and entertainment career.
In addition to a career as a screenwriter he is a composer and partner in Audio Infinitum, Inc. a
movie and trailer scoring company based in Hollywood, California.
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The team wrote professionally for the late Dan Cracchiolo at his production company, Opus
Communicae. They were nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Best Screenplay for
FRANKIE & ALICE. Most recently, they adapted the Taiwanese thriller, Silk, for Paul Brooks
and Brad Kessel of Gold Circle Films. The script has been described as Michael Crichton meets
The Sixth Sense and follows what happens when scientists capture a ghost and enlist a detective
to discover its origins. The team is repped by manager, Nick Mechanic of The Mechanic
Company and lawyer Eric Feig of Eric Feig Entertainment & Media Law, Inc. They are
currently finishing a college-age, Fatal Attraction-style thriller called Chemistry and developing
an animation franchise.
MARY KING (Screenwriter) - discovered her love of music and movies growing up in
Motown. At 17, she moved to Los Angeles and studied acting with Maria Gobetti and began
writing soon after. She teamed with her husband, Marko King, and Jonathan Watters in the late
1990s and they have been writing together for over 15 years.
The team wrote professionally for the late Dan Cracchiolo at his production company, Opus
Communicae. They were nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Best Screenplay for
FRANKIE & ALICE. Most recently, they adapted the Taiwanese thriller, Silk, for Paul Brooks
and Brad Kessel of Gold Circle Films. The script has been described as Michael Crichton meets
The Sixth Sense and follows what happens when scientists capture a ghost and enlist a detective
to discover its origins. The team is repped by manager, Nick Mechanic of The Mechanic
Company and lawyer Eric Feig of Eric Feig Entertainment & Media Law, Inc. They are
currently finishing a college-age, Fatal Attraction-style thriller called Chemistry and developing
an animation franchise.
JONATHAN WATTERS (Screenwriter) - found his love of movies as a teenager working in a
video rental store in Orlando, Florida. After graduating from Cornell University he moved to
Los Angeles and went to school to study film editing. He began screenwriting in the late 1990s
and has been screenwriting together with Marko King and Mary King for over 15 years.
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The team wrote professionally for the late Dan Cracchiolo at his production company, Opus
Communicae. They were nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Best Screenplay for
FRANKIE & ALICE. Most recently, they adapted the Taiwanese thriller, Silk, for Paul Brooks
and Brad Kessel of Gold Circle Films. The script has been described as Michael Crichton meets
The Sixth Sense and follows what happens when scientists capture a ghost and enlist a detective
to discover its origins. The team is repped by manager, Nick Mechanic of The Mechanic
Company and lawyer Eric Feig of Eric Feig Entertainment & Media Law, Inc. They are
currently finishing a college-age, Fatal Attraction-style thriller called Chemistry and developing
an animation franchise.
HALLE BERRY (Producer) - See “About the Cast”
VINCENT CIRRINCIONE (Producer) - owns Vincent Cirrincione Associates, VCA, a highly
respected management and production company, which for over 20 years has overseen an
impressive client roster and maintains offices in both Los Angeles and New York. The company
also has an established literary department to oversee writers and directors. The talented
performers represented by VCA appear in many of today's most prominent film, television and
theatre projects. VCA's clients include; Julie Benz “Dexter,” Taraji P. Henson “Boston Legal,”
John Hensley “Nip Tuck,” Tony Winner Christian Huff “Jersey Boys,” James Lesure “Las
Vegas,” and Jodi Lyn O'Keefe “Prison Break.”
Cirrincione served as executive producer alongside his client of many years, Oscar winner Halle
Berry, on the multi-award winning, Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominated “Introducing
Dorothy Dandridge,” for HBO. Berry was awarded the SAG, Emmy®, NAACP Image Awards
and Golden Globe® Awards for her stunning portrayal of Dandridge.
Again for HBO, Cirrincione partnered with Berry to executive produce another awards favorite,
“Lackawanna Blues,” based on the Obie Award winning play written and performed by Tony
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winner Ruben Santiago Hudson. Santiago Hudson, who received the prestigious Humanitas
Prize for excellence in writing, is also a long-time client and Cirrincione was instrumental in
every development phase of the hugely popular “Lackawanna Blues,” which had its premiere at
the Sundance Film Festival.
Other projects produced by Cirrincione include Unthinkable, starring Sam Jackson, The Last
Producer, starring Burt Reynolds, and several short films including the noted Quest to Ref. VCA
has a wide-ranging slate of projects in various stages of development.
SIMON DeKARIC (Producer) - was born in Serbia in 1974. He completed film studies at
university in Moscow and has a background in property investment. He has been running the
Toronto and LA-based film production company, Reality Pictures In Motion, for 10 years and
co-owns it with his brother, Jugoslav Karic. He has produced 4 feature films including Some
Things That Stay (2004) and the Sonny Liston bio-pic, Phantom Punch (2008).
SHAWN WILLIAMSON (Executive Producer) – Shawn’s many credits include producing the
features White Noise starring Michael Keaton and directed by Geoffrey Sax, Alone in the Dark
starring Christian Slater and Tara Reid, The Long Weekend, In the Name of the King starring
Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, John Rhys-Davies, Ron Perlman, Leelee Sobieski, Burt Reynolds,
and Edison starring Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman, LL Cool J, Justin Timberlake.
Williamson line produced The Wicker Man starring Nicholas Cage, released by Warner Bros.
and 88 Minutes starring Al Pacino for Millennium Films, Whisper and Slither for Gold Circle
Films, the independent feature Possession starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Lee Pace for Yari
Film Group, Vertigo Entertainment and Spitfire Pictures, and Passengers starring Anne
Hathaway for Mandate Pictures. He also produced White Noise II with Gold Circle Films and
Rogue, the television series “Saved” starring Tom Everett Scott for Fox 21 and TNT, the
independent feature They Wait with Jamie King, Far Cry starring Til Schweiger and
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Emmanuelle Vaugier, and the television series “About A Girl” with the N Network and Global
TV.
Most recently, he produced Fifty Dead Men Walking, starring Ben Kingsley and Jim Sturgess,
with HandMade Films and Future Films, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, The
Storm starring Steve Bacic, Lauren Holly and Luke Perry, and the series “The Guard,” for Global
TV, and “Stormworld,” an Australian/Canadian co production, which filmed in Australia,
Singapore and Canada.
A native of Vancouver, Williamson began his career in 1983 as a stage manager. He has since
produced live events, live television, series, television movies and feature films. In 2001
Williamson combined his film production expertise with the talents of independent producer
Stephen Hegyes to form Brightlight Pictures Inc. In addition to producing at Brightlight
Pictures, Williamson chairs the City of Vancouver Industry Film Task Force and sits on the
board of the Whistler Film Festival, the Motion Picture Production Industry Association and the
B.C. Film Commission Advisory Committee. Williamson has received several awards,
including The Canadian Film and Television Production Association 2006 CFTPA Entrepreneur
of the Year Award, and Business Vancouver's 40 under 40 Award.
ABHI RASTOGI (Executive Producer) - is CEO of the 108 Media Corp, a Toronto-based nextgeneration media company with activities including worldwide sales, distribution and ownership
of films, television and digital content. Prior to starting 108, Rastogi was managing director of
Cinesavvy Inc., a film finance and sales company, and he served as executive producer on two of
its key titles, FRANKIE & ALICE and Cell 213. Rastogi also served as Distribution Manager
of Cinemavault Releasing for three years, responsible for acquisitions, sales, and business affairs
related to a library of over 300 titles.
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NEWTON THOMAS SIGEL, ASC (Director of Photography) - began his career as an artist-inresidence at The Whitney Museum in New York. Initially a painter, he started making short
films and soon gravitated towards cinematography.
Since then, Sigel has enjoyed great success with many notable feature films, including Superman
Returns, Leatherheads, The Brothers Grimm, Confessions of A Dangerous Mind, Three Kings,
X-Men and X-Men United, Brokedown Palace, Apt Pupil, Fallen, Blood and Wine, The Trigger
Effect, Foxfire, The Usual Suspects (for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit
Award), and Into the West. The recent Tom Cruise-starrer, Valkyrie, marks the sixth
collaboration with director Bryan Singer since their now classic film, The Usual Suspects.
Among his many notable television credits are the pilots for the series “The Wonder Years,”
Steven Bochco's “Cop Rock” and Bryan Singer's “House.” Sigel also photographed the
landmark television film “Roe vs. Wade” and Edgar Scherick's “Home Fires,” for which he
received a CableACE Award nomination for Outstanding Direction of Photography. Among his
many documentary credits are the Academy Award® winning Witness to War: Dr. Charlie
Clements and the Oscar® nominated El Salvador, Another Vietnam.
Recently, along with writer director Lisa Chang, Sigel directed and co-wrote The Big Empty, an
adaptation of an Alison Smith story. The live action short has played in over fifty international
film festivals, winning the Grand Prize at the USA Film Festival, among others. Sigel also
directed the HBO feature “Point of Origin,” starring Ray Liotta, as well as a first season episode
of the hit television show “House,” and, with Pamela Yates, the documentary “When the
Mountains Tremble.”
RUTH E. CARTER (Costume Designer) - Is a two-time Academy Award® nominee, earning
nominations for her costumes in Spike Lee's Malcolm X and Steven Spielberg's Amistad.
Amongst Carter's numerous and diverse film credits are Do The Right Thing, Mo' Better Blues,
What’s Love Got To Do With It, Shaft, Daddy Day Care and Meet Dave. Carter has collaborated
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with many Hollywood, directors including John Singleton on Four Brothers and Baby Boy, and
with Joss Whedon on Serenity. Carter is also a long-time collaborator of Spike Lee's, having
worked with him on 10 films.
Carter's love for costume designing began in the theater, studying theater arts at Hampton
University. She has enjoyed 20 years as a professional costume designer for film, television,
commercials and theater. Recently, she created costumes for Eddie Murphy in Nowhereland,
Michael Jai White in Black Dynamite, Ashton Kutcher in Spread and Christina Milian in Bring it
On 5. She is currently preparing a film with Don Cheadle about the life of Miles Davis and LA
Riots with Spike Lee.
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END CREDITS
Production Manager
First Assistant Director
Second Assistant Director
BRENDEN FERGUSON
RICHARD COLEMAN
CHARLES CROSSIN
CAST
Frankie
Oz
Edna
Maxine
Hal
Nurse Susan Shaw
Dr. Backman
Dr. Strassfield
Pearl
Rich Fat Cat
Tina
Wanda
Trish
Cliff
Bobby
Cop #1
Cop #2
Frankie (16 years old)
Frankie (8 years old)
Paige (8 years old)
Paige
Judge Prescott
Paige (16 years old)
Pete Prescott
White Alice
Robert (Groom)
Store Owner
Hector
Polyester Molester
Bump and Grind Patron
Waiter
Carl
Celeste
Maria (Anorexic Girl)
Thin Asian Patient
Annabel Prescott
Admission Nurse
Dan
HALLE BERRY
STELLAN SKARSGÅRD
PHYLICIA RASHAD
CHANDRA WILSON
ALEX DIAKUN
JOANNE BARON
BRIAN MARKINSON
MATT FREWER
ROSALYN COLEMAN
SEAN TYSON
MELANIE PAPLIA
KIRA CLAVELL
JOEY BROTHWELL
ADRIAN HOLMES
JAMES KIRK
KENNEDY GOODKEY
ANDREW FRANCIS
VANESSA MORGAN MZIRAY
MICHALYA EVE MCKENZIE
MEGAN CHARPENTIER
KATHARINE ISABELLE
KEN YANKO
EMILY TENNANT
SCOTT LYSTER
ANNE MARIE DELUISE
BEN COLE
CALVIN LEE
MATIAS HACKER
PAUL PUZZELLA
ERIC POLLINS
DARRYL SCHEELAR
ROD CONWAY
ALEXIS IOANNIDIS
XANTHA RADLEY
COLIN FOO
CHRISTINA SCHILD
KATHRYN KIRKPATRICK
WILLIAM PHILLIPS
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Black Janitor
RICHARD COHEE
Bar Executive #1
HARVEY GOLD
Bar Executive #2
TROY RUDOLPH
Pool Player #1
PRIMO ALLON
Pool Player #2
STEFFAN CHAVARRIA
Code Green Nurse CHERYL ADAMS
Stunt Coordinator
DEAN CHOE
Frankie Stunt Double ANGELA UYEDA
Cliff Stunt Double SYLVESTA STUART
Pete Stunt Double DAVID HOSPES
Stunt Wedding Guest #1
SCOTT NICHOLSON
Stunt Wedding Guest #2
CHRIS GORDON
Stunt Tourette's Patient
ROBERT HAYLEY
Stunt Orderly #1
KIT MALLET
Stunt Orderly #2
JOHN ULMER
Stunt Oldsmobile Driver
JAMES BAMFORD
Stand-in for Frankie MARLENE HOESLICH
Stand-in for Dr. Oz BRIAN MCCAIG
CREW
B camera operator/steadicam
DAVID CRONE
First assistant camera
DAVID LOURIE
Second assistant camera
LEIGH JENKINS
Camera trainee
First assistant 'B' camera
Second assistant 'B' camera
THOMAS BILLINGSLEY
DEAN MORIN
CARRIE WILSON
Video assistant
Video playback
ANDREW LEARMONTH
MAX TORROBA
Stills photographer
Script supervisor
SERGEI BACHLAKOV
JESSICA CLOTHIER
Sound recordist/mixer
Boom operator
Sound assistant
GORDON ANDERSON
JON LAVENDER
CARMEN VERIN
Key grip
Best boy grip
A dolly grip
B dolly grip
Grips
JOHN WESTERLAKEN
CARL JENSEN
ROB OHARA
ED MCMAHON
BILL STEFANIDIS
MATT MARGOLIS
IVOR PETERSEN
TONY THORPE
JOHN LE ROY
Rigging grip
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Gaffer
Best boy electric
Genny operator
Lamp operators
Rigging gaffer
Rigging best boy
Assistant art director
Set designers
Set decorator
Assistant set decorator
Propmaster
co-propmaster
Assistant propmaster
Prop buyer
set decorator
assistant set decorator
propmaster
co-propmaster
assistant propmaster
prop buyer
lead set dresser
on-set dresser
set dressers
set decoration drivers
set decoration buyers
graphic artist
storyboard artist
art department assistant
construction coordinator
construction foreman
construction buyer
paint coordinator
JOHN DEKKER
CRAIG JONES
KEN DECKER
YVES BERNADET
RANDY JABLONKA
RICHARD BOISVERT
ANDREW TOWSON
SEAN OXENBURY
KURT ZELMER
ELIZABETH (LIZ) SHELTON
RODRIGO SEGOVIA
GWENDOLYN MARGETSON
MARK LANE
LEESA HANNA
DERYCK BLAKE
JASON LANDELS
MICHELLE HENDRIKSEN
LAURIE DOBBIE
MARK LANE
LEESA HANNA
DERYCK BLAKE
JASON LANDELS
MICHELLE HENDRIKSEN
LAURIE DOBBIE
SCOTT STEWART
BEHJAT BENAM
TREVOR PURVIS
KEVIN KASPER
JOSEE TALBOT
AL SCHEDLER
HARDEEP RAI
MURRAY BROWN
DAVE PADDON
SCOTT CALDERWOOD
KASIA DZIECIOLOWSK
STANISLAVA (SLAVA) SHMAKIN
LING YANG
KACEY MCDOUGALL
JESSE JOSLIN
KEITH MCCULLOCH
CHRIS FEILDEN
MARGO MCKENZIE
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paint foremen
GARTH WEEKS
JACEK TARGOSZ
location lead
TINA CAVENO
lead hand
JANETTE HYLAND
scenic artist
DANA GAUDET
lead carpenters
lead metal fabricator/carpenter
costumer supervisor
set supervisor
truck supervisor
extras supervisor
extras costumer
prep costumer
costumer
head cutter
stitchers
key make-up artist
first assistant make-up artist
Ms. Berry's make-up artist
special effects make-up
key hairstylist
first assistant hairstylist
Ms. Berry's hairstylist
location manager
assistant location manager
trainee location manager
location scouts
key location production assistants
greens department head
best boy
on-set greens
transportation coordinator
transportation captain
transportation co-captain
picture car coordinator
picture car wrangler
Ms. Berry's trailer driver
ROB DAMPIER
BARRY RENNIE
GEOFF JORDAN
SANDRA J. BLACKIE
ALLISON CHRETIEN
MOIRA FENTUM
SCOTT BLACKIE
STEVE HOLLOWAY
GAIL SMITH
WENDY FOSTER
BRENDA KNIGHT
ROMA WNUK
BARBARA GASIOR
JOANN FOWLER
TANYA HUDSON
NORMA HILL-PATTON
TODD MASTERS
IAN BALLARD
SUSAN BOYD
THOM MCINTYRE
SCOTT WALDEN
TREVOR METZ
CORRIE ALEXANDER
TOM TEOTICO
RICK FEARSON
JEFF MOHS
SEAN WOLPUT
ITHON HARRISON JOHNS
JASON KOENIG
JOHNNY MACK
DYLAN DOWD
DARREN MOORE
DAVID HALLIDAY
DON STENSTROM
KELLY CHARLTON
JOHN O'TOOLE
SCOTT DELAPLACE
SAM ENGLAND
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director's driver
cast drivers
cast/shuttle driver
honeywagon driver
hair/make-up driver
star trailer drivers
production coordinator
first assistant production coordinators
office production assistant
third assistant director
trainee assistant director
production accountant
assistant accountant accounts payable
assistant accountant payroll
accounting clerk
post production accounting
special effects coordinators
special effects best boy
special effects assistants
assistant to Mr. Zaidi
assistant to Mr. Sax
assistants to Mr. Cirrincione
assistant to Ms. Berry
assistant to Mr. Williamson
Cinesavvy Coordinator
Catering
Chefs
first aid/craft services
extras first aid/craft services
security captain
Ms. Berry's security
dialect coach
choreographer
GARY FRENCH
STEVE CARR
LINDSAY MORRIS
BRIAN WHITLOCK
MICHAEL HUNTLEY
KEN BUTLER
ALAIN HUDON
LEN NORDINE
NICOLE SHIZUKA OGUCHI
JILL CHRISTENSEN
EMLEM SONMEZ
MICHELE PICARD
DAN MILLER
ROBERT ROGERS
JOHN ROY
TANIA SUSI
ELLIE FOX
ERIN UNRAU
MARILYN JANG
JAK OSMOND
WRAY DOUGLAS
BILL PANKIW
GREG PYNE
SCOTT STOFER
ROBERT CROCCO
NATALIE ROBISON
JANE KATHERINE-WATSON
JOHANNA BREELAND
KIM SUTTON
MARGO MACPHERSON
BRAD SANGUIN
CINEMA SCENES
BOB BEDARD
MICHAEL PROKOP
CHRIS DEAVER
TAMMY SAITO
ILDIKO BARRITT
ANTHONY SABATINI
TREVOR HERRMANN
JEFF HARRIS
TONY ALCANTAR
KIM BLANK
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Canadian choreographer
animal coordinator
KELLY KONNO
DANA DUBE
clearance coordinator
rights and clearances by
TREVOR CHRISTIE
JOAN PEARCE RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
CALLISTA CARD
unit publicist
extras casting
extras casting assistant
key extras wrangler
LORRAINE JAMISON
SANDRA-KEN FREEMAN
GRAHAM WICKSTROM
MARINA ALSTAD
Post Production
post production supervisor
first assistant editor
second assistant editor
digital intermediate by
DI colourist
DI editors
film timer
digital film supervisor
digital film technician
DI project coordinator
DI project supervisor
digital imaging manager
dailies colourists
foley artist
foley recordist
ADR studio, Toronto
ADR mixers
ADR studio, Los Angeles
ADR mixer
ADR studio, Vancouver
ADR mixer
ADR studio, London
ADR mixer
ADR studio, New York
ADR mixer
loop group
DEANNA STRONG
CHRISTOPHER D. LASKO
DANIEL KRIEGER
TECHNICOLOR TORONTO
JIM FLEMING
FRANK BIASI
REV. ROB GYORGY
LOUIS CASADO
ANDREW PASCOE
MARGARET MANSELL
JEREMY KAY
PATRICK DUCHESNE
BRIAN REID
MYKEL THUNCHER
NICO ILIES
STEVEN BAINE
STEVE COPLEY
TECHNICOLOR
JIM MCBRIDE
DAVE FRITZ
WIDGET POST PRODUCTION
ALAN FREEDMAN
POST MODERN SOUND
CHRIS CLEATOR
GOLDCREST POST PRODUCTION
MARK APPLEBY
SOUND ONE
DAVID BOULTON
CALDWELL JEFFERY
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re-recording engineers
re-recording mix assistants
audio coordinator
post production facilities
sound supervisor/dialogue editor
dialogue editor
music editor
sound effects editors
adr editor
assistant sound editor
trainee assistant sound editor
legal counsel
camera systems by
Chapman camera dollies provided by
film negative stock
laboratory and transfer services provided by
16mm reversal processing
Vehicles
sound and video tape stock
insurance provided by
payroll services by
CORY MANDEL
AL DEGRAAF
KENT THOMSON
CHRIS MCLEOD
ADAM LABADIE
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BARRY GILMORE
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ROD DEOGRADES
PAUL GERMANN
JANE TATTERSALL
BRENT PICKETT
GRAHAM ROGERS
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DANNY WEBBER
ANDREW MORRISON
ROBERT DARWELL
JIM BURGESS
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JON CAMPFENS
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visual effects producer
PETE DENOMME
visual effects coordinator
BEAU PARSONS
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GUNDRUN HEINZE
digital compositors
JEF LONN
JOEL SKEETE
JASON KOZSUREK
KEVIN MCBRIDE
MARK NEUMANN
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assistant music supervisor
additional music supervision
score produced by
Strings arranged ad conducted by
recorded and mixed by
assistant to composer
CBC engineer
assistant engineers
orchestra contractor
copyist
solo violin
trumpet/synth programmer
hurdy gurdy
piano
KATY HORSELY
FOR S.L. FELDMAN & ASSOCIATES
SARAH WEBSTER
ANDREW LOCKINGTON
NICHOLAS DODD
ANDREW DUDMAN
NEIL PARFITT
DENNIS PATTERSON
OLGA FITZROY
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ADAM MILLER
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HUGH MARSH
MICHAEL WHITE
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vocals
DIONE TAYLOR
recorded at
AIR STUDIOS LYNDHURST, LONDON UK
Mixed at
ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS, LONDON UK
Songs
"Gift Of Love"
Written By Lee Silver
Used By Permission of Brunswick
Music Publishing
Performed By The Van Dykes
Courtesy of Lee Silver Productions
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THE PRODUCERS WISH TO THANK THE FOLLOWING FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE
Sabrina Shah
Gabriel Aubry
Don Carmody
David Wirtschafter
Jeff Berg
Toni Howard
David Gonzales
THIS FILM IS A DRAMATIZATION BASED ON TRUE EVENTS.
SOME OF THE ACTUAL NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED, SOME OF THE EVENTS
AND CHARACTERS HAVE BEEN FICTIONALIZED, AND SOME TIME LINES MAY
HAVE BEEN CONDENSED FOR DRAMATIC PURPOSES.
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