The Spreading Ground (2000)
- 2000
- ·R
- ·100 min
Veteran Detective Ed Delopre (Dennis Hopper) and partner Mike McGivern (Fredric Forrest) have their hands full when they hit the pavement in search of a dangerous killer with five dead bodies already on his record.
The mayor, in a rush to see peace restored in her city, makes a deal with the mob instead of waiting for Delopre and McGivern's results.
Now that both sides of the law are involved in the killer's capture, the city is turned upside down.
- Actors
- Dennis Hopper·Frederic Forrest·Leslie Hope·Tom McCamus
- Directed by
- Derek Vanlint
- Genre
- Crime·Drama·Horror
- Language
- English
- Country
- Canada·USA
- Director
- Derek Vanlint
Moscow International Film Festival 2000
***SPOILERS*** "Spreading Ground" starts off with a rash of murders of five year old girls in the oceanside town of Burman City. As the killings are connected to a single serial killer the city's chief executive Mayor Hackett, Elizabeth Shepherd, want's the unknown killer to be both captured and killed if possible within 48 hours in order to keep her pet project, by successfully floating a bond in the upcoming municipal elections, for a new sports stadium alive.
Very businesslike authority with little responsibility and only a desire to keep his/her name clean - check. A veteran cop that has bad relationship with his family - check.
This Canadian production gives us Dennis Hopper and Frederick Forest as two detectives who are left only 48 hours to find the serial murderer. If they don't get the job done, the mayor's major investment in some property will be ruined and she'll be out of office.
