DVD Tape

A dingy motel room, three top actors and a crazy script. These are the ingredients of the rock-solid drama TAPE. This film by Richard Linklater is about two men who meet after 10 years in a motel room in Lansing, Michigan. Vince (Ethan Hawke) and Jon (Sean Robert Leonard) were each other's best friends in high school. Jon is a debuting director who has been invited to a film festival in his hometown. Vince is involved in all kinds of shady drug deals and has never made it further than a volunteer firefighter. The meeting starts off amicably, but it soon turns out that Vince has a double agenda. Vince wants to talk about their mutual high school friend Amy (Uma Thurman). He tries to extract a confession from Jon, which he secretly records on tape. Vince wants Jon to admit that he raped Amy during a party that got out of hand. To make things even more complicated, Vince has also invited Amy. Vince is looking for a confrontation, but the result turns out to be a big surprise for him too!


Genre(s): Drama
Distributor for cinemas: Upstream Pictures BV
Running time: 86 minutes