Two strangers, one hotel bar, fourteen minutes to break your heart.
Two strangers at rock bottom in their lives, meet in a hotel bar before going on to spend a night putting their respective broken worlds to rights.
Acting
Gary Beadle and Corrinne Wicks deliver devastating restraint.
Writing
Economical dialogue that trusts silence to do heavy lifting.
Director
Mark Brennan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in a single location over one night, the film was inspired by real encounters director Mark Brennan witnessed working hotel bars in his twenties.
The title refers to both a sudden storm and a cry of distress — the entire film operates in that double meaning, with the weather never actually shown.
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