The Cry of the Owl (2009)

Robert Forrester (Paddy Considine) besluit de grote stad en zijn ex-vrouw achter te laten en vertrekt naar een klein dorpje. Na een tijdje ontdekt hij Jenny (Julia Stiles), die hij door het raam van haar keuken zorgvuldig observeert. Als Jenny hem een keer betrapt besluit ze hem binnen te vragen en er ontstaat een vreemde relatie. Grote problemen komen er al snel als Greg (James Thomas Gilbert), de vriend van Jenny, achter de relatie komt.

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A man with a troubled past becomes the prime suspect in a small-town murder case. Adapted from the novel by Patricia Highsmith, The Cry of the Owl tells the tale of Robert Forrester (Paddy Considine), a man who flees from the city and his marriage in search of solitude. Eventually, Robert winds up in a quaint community and becomes drawn to Jenny (Julia Stiles), a pretty local whose simple existence holds a unique appeal to the former big-city dweller. When Jenny notices Robert peering in through her kitchen window, she senses that he doesn't mean her harm and strikes up a conversation. Suspicious of the mysteriou...
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s newcomer's motivations and jealous of the attention his girlfriend is getting, Jenny's boyfriend Greg (James Gilbert) launches an obsessive campaign to humiliate and destroy Robert. After a heated confrontation Greg goes missing, and the authorities begin looking to Robert for answers. Now the higher the stakes get, the more Robert begins to suspect that he's being set up to take a big fall.
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