AFI Dallas International Film Festival - ‘Fissure’

(USA, 2007, 90 mins)

Directed By: Russ Pond

Detective Paul Gruning, who is overcoming a personal tragedy, is sent out to investigate an intruder at a local Professor’s home. Finding the door open, he finds a the professor’s dead body in the kitchen and his distraught wife, Emma, whose replies to Gruning’s questions make little sense. Upstairs, he finds a resentful son, Andrew, and Rachel, the professor’s lab assistant and house guest. Testimonies seem to shift with each questioning and the situation begins to unravel in the wake of something he can’t quite grasp. The murder mystery refuses to unfold, and Gruning discovers each has a good motive for the professor’s death and a different view of reality that may cost him his life if he does discover the truth. He finally realizes a truth that must be faced, or more than his own life is doomed.

Information from the AFI website