Frank Turlotte
Created by Richard Ledes and Alain Didier-Weill

In The Caller, Richard Ledes' 2008 promising neo-noir, Elliot Gould plays private eye FRANK TURLOTTE, who's hired -- despite his initial reluctance -- by an anonymous big shot at an international energy firm based in New York. They want the detective to tail an employee they're worried will expose the company's corrupt practices in Latin America.

So far, so good, right?

But it turns out that the man Frank's been tailing and the man who hired him are one and the same. As Stevens' and Turlotte's lives continue to intertwine, puzzle pieces fall together, and the secrets of the past start to explain the future.

The film is slotted to make its debut at the 2008 Tribeca film festival, with general release scheduled for later in the year.

FILM

• THE CALLER
  (2008, Belladonna Productions)
  Screenplay by Richard Ledes and Alain Didier-Weill
  Directed by Richard Ledes
  Producers: Linda Moran, René Bastian
  A Ziv Production
  Starring Frank Langella as Jimmy Stevens
  and Elliott Gould as FRANK TURLOTTE
  Also starring Laura Harring, Edoardo Ballerini, Corey Johnson, Edward James Hyland, Jean Brassard, Robert Bagnell, Chandler Williams, Anabel Sosa, Laura Holloway, Julia Carothers Hughes, Grégory Ellis, Charles Nordeen, Marion Servole, David Ballog

Report respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.