It’s fitting that one scene has Abby trying escape a nosy Charles via a busy sidewalk of Niagara Falls, but we don’t get a sense of the place. While overseeing the family hotel in its last few weeks of ownership, Abby starts to retrace the steps of this unfinished story that her sister Laure (Hannah Gross) considered to be just one of Abby’s fantastical yarns. Before she can hide in the darkness of a nearby funhouse for too long, the lights come up, and the movie switches back to its ordinary nature instead of guiding us deeper toward a memorable weirdness. Watch the trailer now (or scroll down for the ending…): ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ Nick Allen is an Assistant Editor at RogerEbert.com and is a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association. Disappearance at Clifton Hill arrived on UK Netflix on October 20th, 2020 but the film’s ending and the fate of Alex Moulin need to be explained. You just go along with it, but at the same time it’s not all that cute, either. Tuppence Middleton of “Downton Abbey” and “The Current War” is our troubled heroine. Showing all 3 items Jump to: Summaries (2) Synopsis (1) Summaries. There are a few overt attempts to be funny, like when the magicians give their side of the story while demonstrating sleights of hand, but the script's bizarre impulses are muted. Abby is far from the only inhabitant in “Disappearance on Clifton Hill” who messes with the truth, as Shin and co-writer James Schultz populate their story with numerous people who look like crackpots unable to provide cold facts. 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 husband says that Alex was supposed to be taken to the farm but he was never there and later they were told by the police that he committed suicide. Disappearance At Clifton Hill will be released across all major streaming and download platforms from 20 July, with a physical release following on 3 August. Abby has the curiosity and action of a journalism student (or so she claims), but her gumption goes even further—with the preface of a flashed smile, she can set off on a confident lie while talking to strangers, whether or not she gets caught. And yet the film's biggest problem is how it bungles such kitschy potential. While walking around the woods by the water, she sees a boy with an eyepatch attacked by two adults and stuffed into a car trunk. It happens just up the hill and through the weeds of where she is standing, but it’s clear enough. It’s got a winning cast. A visit to the library and a few conversations later, and the story even gets stranger—a VHS tape promoting a mother and father magician duo known as the Magnificent Moulins, a tiger, a suicide, a conspiracy. Maybe Cronenberg’s character isn’t airtight in his conspiracy theories; maybe the defensive billionaire is hiding something when he shuts Abby's curiosity down by saying, “In case you haven’t figured out, I own this town.” The narrative gets twists from this shiftiness, but the characters are underwritten, and the movie's slippery nature (down to its final scene) feels more like a gimmick. While her family takes a group picture minutes later, she sees the car drive away, and to the sound of Alex Sowinski and Leland Whitty's frantic woodwind and brass score, you can practically see the traumatic image being inventoried deep in her brain, primed to knock over some shelves in the rest of her psyche. While doing her own diving into the story, she encounters a guy who claims to own the town, Charlie Lake III (Eric Johnson).

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