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The Grief Tourist
“He Goes to Dark Places...”
20134.71h 24m
Overview
JIM TAHANA doesn't leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you'll sense his hunger - the deep hunger of an insatiable American soul - always scanning to devour something - anything that might fill the searing, unexplained void within him. Jim obsesses over the hobby that has been part of his DNA since he was a young boy: grief tourism - the act of traveling with the intent to visit places of tragedy or disaster. Every year his week-long vacations from work are spent going to grief tourist locations in the lives of different serial killers he is fascinated with. This years obsession is Carl Marznap, a mass murder from New Orleans, Louisiana. But this trip is no ordinary vacation as Jim's rancid sexual impulses and weakening grip on reality deteriorate into a violent despair that will ultimately unlock an unspeakable secret festering within him, bringing The Grief Tourist to it's brutal and shocking finale...
Directed by Suri Krishnamma
Written by Frank John Hughes
Produced by Zachery Ty Bryan, Michael Cudlitz, Suzanne DeLaurentiis
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Top Cast
Melanie Griffith
Betsy
Michael Cudlitz
Jim
Pruitt Taylor Vince
Carl Marznap
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Suzanne Quast
Iris
Brad Bufanda
Manny
Eddie J. Fernandez
Osvaldo
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Abigail Schrader
Waymond Lee
Office Worker
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Samantha Lester
Donna
Nayo Wallace
Janita
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Themes & Keywords
prostituteserial killertranssexual
About The Grief Tourist
The Grief Tourist is a thriller, drama film released in 2013 exploring themes of prostitute, serial killer, transsexual. Directed by Suri Krishnamma, it stars Melanie Griffith, Michael Cudlitz, Pruitt Taylor Vince. JIM TAHANA doesn't leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you'll sense his hunger - the deep hunger of an insatiable American soul - always scanning to devour something - anything that might fill the searing, unexplained void within him. Jim obsesses over the hobby that has been part of his DNA since he was a young boy: grief tourism - the act of traveling with the intent to visit places of tragedy or disaster. Every year his week-long vacations from work are spent going to grief tourist locations in the lives of different serial killers he is fascinated with. This years obsession is Carl Marznap, a mass murder from New Orleans, Louisiana. But this trip is no ordinary vacation as Jim's rancid sexual impulses and weakening grip on reality deteriorate into a violent despair that will ultimately unlock an unspeakable secret festering within him, bringing The Grief Tourist to it's brutal and shocking finale...
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