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“Don't trust a soul.”
A stockbroker in a small southern town gets embroiled in an insurance scam with a next-door neighbor that leads to multiple murders when a host of other people want in on the plot. Sheriff Thurmond Fowler, the by-the-book town sheriff for over four decades, works earnestly to try and unravel the town’s mystery and winds up getting more than he bargained for.

Cole Hauser
Jason

Jaimie Alexander
Delaine

Morgan Freeman
Sheriff Thurmond Fowler

Darren Mann
Lucius

Andrew Stevens
Dewey

Kenneth Farmer
Atticus

Ben VanderMey
Deputy Kane

Tony DeMil
Jody

Liann Pattison
Purnie Cannon
John Dylan Atkins
Mace
The Minute You Wake Up Dead is a thriller, crime, drama film released in 2022 exploring themes of biting, frantic, grim, dramatic, suspenseful, tense. Directed by Michael Mailer, it stars Cole Hauser, Jaimie Alexander, Morgan Freeman. A stockbroker in a small southern town gets embroiled in an insurance scam with a next-door neighbor that leads to multiple murders when a host of other people want in on the plot. Sheriff Thurmond Fowler, the by-the-book town sheriff for over four decades, works earnestly to try and unravel the town’s mystery and winds up getting more than he bargained for.
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