The read
Most of the 3,185 2010s thriller movies in this catalog score higher. It runs a compact 1h 24m.
Synopsis
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...
Ratings
33 audience votes
Key crew
- Suri KrishnammaDirector
- Frank John HughesWriter
- Austin WintoryOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Melanie GriffithBetsy
- Michael CudlitzJim
- Pruitt Taylor VinceCarl Marznap
- Suzanne QuastIris
- Brad BufandaManny
- Eddie J. FernandezOsvaldo
- Abigail SchraderCast
- Waymond LeeOffice Worker
- Samantha LesterDonna
- Nayo WallaceJanita
- Joseph John SchirleYoung Jim
- Linda S. WongLA Female Reporter (as Linda Wong)
