***SPOILERS*** Updated version of Edger Allen Poe's 1843 horror classic the "Tell Tale Heart" the film "Tell-Tale" takes place in modern Providence Road Island involving heart transplant recipient Terry Bernard,Josh Lucas. Since his heart transplant Terry has been having nightmares of him being brutally murdered by a gang of home invaders together with his wife.
It's when Terry is getting a checkup at the Providence Hospital where his heart transplant operation was preformed that he spies on his medical records telling him that the person who's heart was donated to him was murder victim Jean P. Viellard! It just so happens that the EMS worker who was at the scene of Viellard's murder was Kevin Stanovich, Jamie Harrold, who works in the very hospital where Terry got his heart transplant! Terry becomes so obsessed in finding out about the person who's heart is keeping him alive that he gets in touch with the detective in charge of the investigation of the Viellard murder Phil Van Doren, Brian Cox, whom as it later turns out knows a lot more about the case then his report on it indicates!
In the film we also have Terry's seven year old daughter and the apple of his eye Angela, Beatrice Miller, who's suffering from an incurable bone disease who in all likeliness will not survive adulthood. There's also Terry's live-in girlfriend Elizabert Clemson, Lena Headly, a doctor at the Providence hospital where he was operated on. It's the sweet loving and caring Elizabeth who's been giving Terry the very vital emotional support that he needs to get over his obsession over who's heart, that's keeping him alive, it is that's pumping inside him.
***SPOILERS*** As we and Terry soon find out the circumstances that lead to his heart transplant were not quite as simple as he at first imagined! He in fact got his heart through an underground criminal organ donation racket that originated right inside the hospital where he was a patient in! It was then that the mild mannered and wimp like Terry subconsciously tracked down those who murdered his heart donor and his wife and exacted brutal justice on them!***MAJOR SPOILER*** The biggest shock off all for Terry was saved for the end of the movie: In just who was unknowingly responsible for the Vieillard murders and the very sinister and selfish, as well as monetary, reasons behind them!
P.S To show you just how incredibly tense and disturbing the film "Tell-Tale" really is at it's premier showing at the Tribica Cinima in New York City on April 24, 2009 a person watching the movie almost dropped dead from from sheer fright, he was later revived by members of a local hospital EMS unit, some 15 minutes before the movie Tell-Tale ended. This had the showing,together with the films surprise ending, postponed for some 90 minutes until the man, with the help of the EMS personnel, was able to regain consciousness!
It's when Terry is getting a checkup at the Providence Hospital where his heart transplant operation was preformed that he spies on his medical records telling him that the person who's heart was donated to him was murder victim Jean P. Viellard! It just so happens that the EMS worker who was at the scene of Viellard's murder was Kevin Stanovich, Jamie Harrold, who works in the very hospital where Terry got his heart transplant! Terry becomes so obsessed in finding out about the person who's heart is keeping him alive that he gets in touch with the detective in charge of the investigation of the Viellard murder Phil Van Doren, Brian Cox, whom as it later turns out knows a lot more about the case then his report on it indicates!
In the film we also have Terry's seven year old daughter and the apple of his eye Angela, Beatrice Miller, who's suffering from an incurable bone disease who in all likeliness will not survive adulthood. There's also Terry's live-in girlfriend Elizabert Clemson, Lena Headly, a doctor at the Providence hospital where he was operated on. It's the sweet loving and caring Elizabeth who's been giving Terry the very vital emotional support that he needs to get over his obsession over who's heart, that's keeping him alive, it is that's pumping inside him.
***SPOILERS*** As we and Terry soon find out the circumstances that lead to his heart transplant were not quite as simple as he at first imagined! He in fact got his heart through an underground criminal organ donation racket that originated right inside the hospital where he was a patient in! It was then that the mild mannered and wimp like Terry subconsciously tracked down those who murdered his heart donor and his wife and exacted brutal justice on them!***MAJOR SPOILER*** The biggest shock off all for Terry was saved for the end of the movie: In just who was unknowingly responsible for the Vieillard murders and the very sinister and selfish, as well as monetary, reasons behind them!
P.S To show you just how incredibly tense and disturbing the film "Tell-Tale" really is at it's premier showing at the Tribica Cinima in New York City on April 24, 2009 a person watching the movie almost dropped dead from from sheer fright, he was later revived by members of a local hospital EMS unit, some 15 minutes before the movie Tell-Tale ended. This had the showing,together with the films surprise ending, postponed for some 90 minutes until the man, with the help of the EMS personnel, was able to regain consciousness!