
Insomnia(2002)
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.


“No soul is safe.”
A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."

Bill Paxton
Dad Meiks

Matthew McConaughey
Meiks

Powers Boothe
FBI Agent Wesley Doyle

Matt O'Leary
Young Fenton

Jeremy Sumpter
Young Adam

Luke Askew
Sheriff Smalls

Levi Kreis
Fenton Meiks

Derk Cheetwood
Agent Griffin Hull

Missy Crider
Becky Meiks
Alan Davidson
Brad White
Frailty is a drama, thriller, crime film released in 2002 exploring themes of rose garden, sheriff, dreams, angel, loss of loved one, insanity. Directed by Bill Paxton, it stars Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe. A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."
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