Guy Maddin's new film Keyhole is a film that spins 1930s gangster plot with Homer's Odyssey and stars Jason Patric and Isabella Rossellini. A gangster and deadbeat father, ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) returns home after a long absence. He is toting two teenagers: a drowned girl, Denny, who has mysteriously returned to life; and a bound-and-gagged hostage, who is actually his own teenage son, Manners. Confused, Ulysses doesn't recognise his own son, but he feels with increasing conviction he must make an indoor odyssey from the back door of his home all the way up, one... room at a time, to the marriage bedroom where his wife Hyacinth (Isabella Rossellini) awaits, full of cancer, grieving over the deaths of her three children, and wooed by Ulysses arch-rival, Chang (Johnny Chang). The house is haunted by countless dead relatives. Ulysses eventually reaches his goal and vanquishes his enemy, but the equilibrium of the house has been disturbed. Perhaps this has all been a dream that is dreamt every night by Manners himself or by the ghosts he loves so much. [show more]
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Ghosts and gangsters come together in Canadian director Guy Maddin's surreal, noir-ish thriller, loosely based on Homer's 'Odyssey'. On a rainswept night, a group of on-the-run gangsters rendezvous at the large rambling house belonging to their leader, Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric). Arriving in the company of a blind woman, Denny (Brooke Palsson), Ulysses soon finds his leadership is questioned and tensions within the group quickly rise. As he sets out to find his wife Hyacinth (Isabella Rossellini), who is locked in a room on an upper floor, he embarks on a personal odyssey through the house, reality and dreams merging as he attempts to find a way through the maze of rooms, confronting ghosts and obstacles from his past at every turn.
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