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Disappearance at Clifton Hill (2019)

Disappearance at Clifton Hill poster
Directed by
Albert Shin
Genre
thriller film
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 40m
Rated
12
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 115 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman returns to her hometown of Niagara Falls after her mother's death to take over a motel. She becomes obsessed with a childhood memory of witnessing a kidnapping and tries to uncover what really happened.

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What happens

Disappearance at Clifton Hill (initially known as Clifton Hill) is a 2019 Canadian thriller film, directed by Albert Shin. The film stars Tuppence Middleton as Abby, a young woman who returns home to Niagara Falls, Ontario, when she inherits a family-owned motel in the city's Clifton Hill tourist district following her mother's death, and becomes obsessed with reconstructing inchoate childhood memories of witnessing a kidnapping. The film's cast also includes Hannah Gross, Marie-Josée Croze, Andy McQueen, Noah Reid, Dan Lett, Aaron Poole, Connor Jessup, Elizabeth Saunders, and Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, as well as filmmaker David Cronenberg as a local historian and podcaster. The film was nominated for four Canadian Screen Award nominations, including Best Supporting Actor for McQueen. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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