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Road to Nowhere (2010)

A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. Unsuspectingly, he finds himself drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue: he becomes obsessed with the woman, the crime, her possibly notorious past, and the disturbing complexity between art and truth. From the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina to Verona, Rome, and London, new truths are revealed and clues to other crimes and passions, darker and even more complex, are uncovered.

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Thriller
Romance

Top billed cast

Tygh RunyanMitchell Haven
Shannyn SossamonLaurel Graham / Velma Duran
Dominique SwainNathalie Post
Cliff DeYoungCary Stewart / Rafe Taschen
John DiehlBobby Billings
Waylon PayneBruno Brotherton
Rob KolarSteve Gales (as Robert Kolar)
Nic PaulJohnny Laidlaw
Fabio TestiNestor Duran
Mallory CulbertMallory

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