FORECLOSURE
a Film by Richard C. Ledes
“Ghosts don’t move out.”
Starring Michael Imperioli, Wendell Pierce, Bill Raymond
The story of a family striving to stay together while a curse and the ghosts of a haunted house try to tear them apart.
Director's Statement
Near the end of the millennium, some five years after leaving Paris, approaching the end of my time in graduate school, driving on the Cross Bronx Expressway with my fiancée and my uncle Jimmy, headed into the Bronx to meet part of my father’s family, I listened as Jimmy turned to my fiancée and told her how smart her future husband’s father had been to get himself admitted into the psychiatric ward of Bellevue Hospital. I thought, "What the fuck?".. More
Foreclosure
Synopsis
Bill Landopolous (Michael Imperioli), his son Steven (Spencer List) and father-in-law Ray (Bill Raymond) arrive at the home of their recently deceased relative Cal who took his own life. They are greeted by Officer Wright (Matt Servitto), who points out the numerous foreclosures, bank owned properties and short sales that have depopulated the neighborhood he patrols.
At first, moving into a new house is a tonic for Bill’s worries: he cleans out Cal’s rank old refrigerator and spit shines his business shoes, Bill even manages to tolerate the half medicated racist ranting of his nearly-senile father-in-law. But the rants, which begin as complaints about Bill’s Greek heritage, become a kind of inherited reverie when young Steven, exploring the dank basement, discovers an old black and white photograph. Eventually overcome by a curse and the influence of ghosts of a lynching that took place outside the house, Bill decides he has to lynch his son to prove he is white.
Cast
Michael Imperioli
Bill
Wendell Pierce
Virgil
Spencer List
Steven
Bill Raymond
Raymond
Meital Dohan
Cristina
Matt Servito
Officer Wright
Crew
Co-Producer
Lila Yomtoob
Ged Dickersin
Producer
Frederic Fasano
Director of Photography
Brian Rzepka
Production Designer
Bill Henry
Editor
Robert Miller
Music
Kim Wilcox
Costume Designer
Billy Hopkins
Casting Director
Richard C. Ledes
Writer, Director
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