FilmWorks Entertainment announced this past week that
director Bradley W. Ragland’s Looking for Lions, the
feature-length remake of his 2012 critically heralded short film, Savage,
will be making its DVD debut on Mar. 22.
As with the original, Chelsea Gilligan (as Teri in the TV
series Star-Crossed) and Todd Julian (as Scott in the TV series Twisted,
plus such films as A New York Heartbeat and The Truth About Angels) reprise
their roles as Mia and Ray, while the short film writer, Norman Lesperance,
flushes out the script elements here and also returns as the other central
character to the piece, Emmett.
Ray is something of a free spirit, who has attracted the
love and affection of Mia, an artist of sorts, who is actually more grounded
than Ray — she just needs to catch a break to launch her career. They seem perfect for each other, which
makes their ultimate plight all the more compelling.
Emmett is the other half of this story and his desperation —
without giving too much away — makes his part in this drama just as compelling
as that of Ray and Mia; even heartbreaking.
Ray lands a terrific job, which seems to solve their
short-term financial issues. There is
just one little problem with his “courier” job — he doesn’t seem to be the
right candidate, with the right work ethic for such a gig. The perfect patsy, well, that’s another
story … and he’s a good “fit” for that.
Meanwhile, Emmett needs a certain delivery from this rather
shady “courier” company and sure as God made little green apples, Ray finds a way
to screw that up. That sets in motion a
series of events that will bring these otherwise decent protagonists to dark
places that you would never expect them to go.
Looking for Lions is a taught thriller that has you invested in
the fates all three of the main characters, even though they are often at odds
in their motives; survival motives.
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