The Grief Tourist
4.7
84 minutes
8/23/2013
Overview
JIM TAHANA doesn't leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you'll sense his hunger - the deep hunger of an insatiable American soul - always scanning to devour something - anything that might fill the searing, unexplained void within him. Jim obsesses over the hobby that has been part of his DNA since he was a young boy: grief tourism - the act of traveling with the intent to visit places of tragedy or disaster. Every year his week-long vacations from work are spent going to grief tourist locations in the lives of different serial killers he is fascinated with. This years obsession is Carl Marznap, a mass murder from New Orleans, Louisiana. But this trip is no ordinary vacation as Jim's rancid sexual impulses and weakening grip on reality deteriorate into a violent despair that will ultimately unlock an unspeakable secret festering within him, bringing The Grief Tourist to it's brutal and shocking finale...
Cast List
Melanie Griffith
as Betsy
Michael Cudlitz
as Jim
Pruitt Taylor Vince
as Carl Marznap
Suzanne Quast
as Iris
Brad Bufanda
as Manny
Eddie J. Fernandez
as Osvaldo
Abigail Schrader
Waymond Lee
as Office Worker
Samantha Lester
as Donna
Nayo Wallace
as Janita
Joseph John Schirle
as Young Jim
Linda S. Wong
as LA Female Reporter (as Linda Wong)
Chris Hayes
as Crime-Scene Investigator
Donna Ponterotto
as Gerry
Stefanie Kleine
as Olga
Marcel Mazur
as Grant
Brian Hall
as Tom
Samantha Belén
as Donna (as Samantha Lester)
Ernesto Chaverri
as Det. Ramirez
Steve Nave
as Reverend Amos Sanders
Danielle Lester
as Diner Patron
Joan McCarthy
as AA participant
Ken Garcia
as Agent Gomez
Anni Cyrus
Sylvia Lester
as AA Speaker
Maxine English
as Terry
Hannah Rogers
Brandon Woxland
as Teen Attacker 2
Zackary James Woxland
as Teen Attacker 1
Michael Woxland Jr.
as Teen Attacker 3
Ethan Burnette
as The Hawk
Saunders Hyldreth
as Cook
Shannon McNulty
as Diner Patron
Howie B. Cohen
as Walt Tahna
Victor A. Sandoval
as Mexican Teen
Morgan Lawton
as FBI Agent
David Warshofsky
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)