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Run Time by Catherine Ryan Howard
3.0
Adele Rafferty is like every other struggling actress. She’s hustling to pay the bills, one payday away from destitution or stardom. Having a taste of success when she was younger has left her chasing the next break. But it isn’t only about success, it’s about redemption.
A few years prior, Adele had a job on what she thought would be a great gig. But someone on set was conspiring against her, slowly making others doubt her, as well as Adele doubting herself. The incident was forgiven, but not forgotten.
So when Adele gets a mysterious call in the middle of the night offering her the lead role in the indiest of indie projects, who is she to say no? The movie, blandly entitled, Final Draft, is dubbed a psychological horror flick, appropriately filming in the middle of nowhere, full of a skeleton crew of alpha males. Another cliche? There’s intermittent cell service. But as soon as she arrives one text does manage to come through, warning Adele to not go if she hadn’t left already. Now she’s left wondering if this really is the role of her life, or the role to die for.
Run Time is a slow burn of a thriller. You know something is amiss about halfway through, but there’s still a good chunk of story left. A lot of that are survival scenes where Adele alternates between seething pain and running for her life. It all comes together in the end, but I do wish there was more to the middle of this story, despite its many pages. Instead some important details felt left on the cutting room floor, needlessly making the cleverly double entendre titled Run Time a bit shorter than it needed to be.
A few years prior, Adele had a job on what she thought would be a great gig. But someone on set was conspiring against her, slowly making others doubt her, as well as Adele doubting herself. The incident was forgiven, but not forgotten.
So when Adele gets a mysterious call in the middle of the night offering her the lead role in the indiest of indie projects, who is she to say no? The movie, blandly entitled, Final Draft, is dubbed a psychological horror flick, appropriately filming in the middle of nowhere, full of a skeleton crew of alpha males. Another cliche? There’s intermittent cell service. But as soon as she arrives one text does manage to come through, warning Adele to not go if she hadn’t left already. Now she’s left wondering if this really is the role of her life, or the role to die for.
Run Time is a slow burn of a thriller. You know something is amiss about halfway through, but there’s still a good chunk of story left. A lot of that are survival scenes where Adele alternates between seething pain and running for her life. It all comes together in the end, but I do wish there was more to the middle of this story, despite its many pages. Instead some important details felt left on the cutting room floor, needlessly making the cleverly double entendre titled Run Time a bit shorter than it needed to be.