Shut Eye
(2016)
Regisseur:
Leslie BohemSchauspieler:
KaDee Strickland, Jeffrey Donovan, Dylan Schmid, Angus Sampson, Susan Misner, Isabella Rossellini, David Zayas, Havana Guppy, Emmanuelle ChriquiIn der Stadt der Engel sind viele Menschen tätig, die Behaupten mit Geistern reden zu können oder übernatürliche Kräfte haben wollen. Viele - wenn nicht sogar alle von ihnen - sind Scharlatane. Einer von ihnen hat nun genug von dem falschen Spiel und dem unehrlichen Geschäft mit dem Paranormalen, muss aber seine Weltsicht neu sortieren, als er plötzlich von Visionen heimgesucht wird. Doch sind diese für bare Münze zu nehmen?
Shut Eye takes a darkly comedic look at the underground world of Los Angeles storefront psychics and the organized crime syndicate that runs them. The story revolves around a disgruntled player in the organization who finds his cynical world view challenged when he starts to experience visions that may or may not be real.Charlie Haverford is a failed magician who now works as a psychic/conman overseeing a number of fortune telling parlors in Los Angeles. Employed for many years by a Romani kingpin, Charlie's life is stifled and going nowhere until a blow to the head jars him into a new mindset and makes him question everything he has ever believed. When his wife urges him to break out on his own, he's careful – because he knows that one wrong move will land him in a shallow grave.
Shut Eye takes a darkly comedic look at the underground world of Los Angeles storefront psychics and the organized crime syndicate that runs them. The story revolves around a disgruntled player in the organization who finds his cynical world view challenged when he starts to experience visions that may or may not be real.Charlie Haverford is a failed magician who now works as a psychic/conman overseeing a number of fortune telling parlors in Los Angeles. Employed for many years by a Romani kingpin, Charlie's life is stifled and going nowhere until a blow to the head jars him into a new mindset and makes him question everything he has ever believed. When his wife urges him to break out on his own, he's careful – because he knows that one wrong move will land him in a shallow grave.