| Cry_Wolf | |
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| Directed by | Jeff Wadlow |
| Produced by | Seth Gordon Beau Bauman |
| Written by | Jeff Wadlow Beau Bauman |
| Starring | Julian Morris Jon Bon Jovi Lindy Booth Jared Padalecki |
| Music by | Michael Wandmacher |
| Cinematography | Romeo Tirone |
| Editing by | Seth Gordon |
| Studio | Focus Features Rogue Pictures |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | September 16, 2005 |
| Running time | Theatrical cut: 90 minutes Unrated cut: 94 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,000,000 |
| Gross revenue | $15,585,821 |
Cry_Wolf is a 2005 American murder mystery directed by Jeff Wadlow after he won $1,000,000 at the 2002 Chrysler Million Dollar Film Festival.
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A woman, Becky (Erica Yates), is shot by a mysterious killer in the woods. Later, Owen Matthews (Julian Morris) arrives at Westlake Preparatory Academy. He meets a red-haired girl, Dodger (Lindy Booth). That night Owen's roommate, Tom (Jared Padalecki), wakes Owen up to tell him they are sneaking out. Graham (Ethan Cohn), Mercedes (Sandra McCoy), Lewis (Paul James), Randall (Jesse Janzen), Regina (Kristy Wu), Tom, Dodger, Owen and a few other students play a game of lies, suspicion, and survival called Cry Wolf. When everyone closes their eyes, Dodger marks Owen as the wolf. Owen wins the game.
Owen meets his new journalism teacher, Mr. Walker (Jon Bon Jovi). After class, Owen and Tom meet everyone for lunch. The police found Becky's body, only because it was dragged through the woods by a wolf. The group talk about who could have murdered Becky when Dodger proposes expanding the game to the entire school. Owen suggests creating a fake e-mail telling everyone about a serial killer who goes from campus to campus killing students every few years. They describe the killer as wearing an orange ski mask, a camouflage jacket and a hunting knife. Owen, Dodger, Randall, Regina, Lewis and Mercedes create the original victims. That night, they send out the e-mail.
The next day, the entire school has spread the story that the group created. Mr. Walker confronts Owen about the e-mail. During a phone call to his dad (Gary Cole), Owen receives an instant message from someone using the name "Wolf". Tom and Owen blame Dodger. Owen confronts her about the messages, but she claims she has been studying with Regina, leaving Owen to believe that it was either Graham, Lewis or Mercedes. Owen returns to his room to find it has been trashed. Tom blames Owen for trashing the room. The instant messenger comes up on Owen's laptop and they walk find a tongue stud and blood on Owen's keyboard. Tom blames Regina who had a recipe for fake blood. They call her and she tells them that she's been on a field trip.
Owen believes that Dodger is lying and goes to the library to confront her. Owen learns that Dodger was visiting her mother, who lives in town. After deciding that Randall is behind all of the weird behavior, he calls Jenny Ryder, the girl that Randall was supposed to meet. She tells Owen that Randall never went to state and she does not know what happened. Owen seeks out Dodger, and Mercedes tells him she is going over a paper with Mr. Walker. Owen sees Dodger kissing Mr. Walker.
The next day, Owen goes to his journalism class. When he reaches into his bag for supplies, a hunting knife falls out of his bag. Mr. Walker escorts Owen to the Headmistress's office. Owen tells Mr. Walker that he knows about the relationship with Dodger and that he will use the information to stay at West Lake. Mr. Walker agrees not to say anything and walks away.
On the night of Halloween, The Wolf comes into the cafeteria and attacks Owen. Running, Owen hides in Tom's car, but sees the Wolf behind him. The attacker ends up being Mercedes, who was trying to prove that attackers can be women.
The following day, Owen and Mercedes each meet with the headmistress (Anna Deavere Smith), who decides that Owen's fate will be reached over the weekend. Owen, Dodger, Mercedes, Tom, Regina and Lewis have to stay at school over the weekend. Owen contacts the group to meet in the chapel that night. Owen, Dodger, Tom, Lewis and Regina meet and they try to get to the bottom of the attacks. It appears that Regina was the one who was following Owen and Dodger in the stacks. Tom was the one who attacked Owen in the cafeteria and Lewis trashed the dorm room and it was Tom who put the knife in Owen's bag. Mercedes drove Randall to the bus station, so that they could keep Tom's car but that means that nobody knows where Randall is. Lewis calls Mercedes to make sure she drove Randall to state. While Lewis is on the phone, Mercedes takes a picture of herself while she's in the bathroom and sends it to Lewis' phone. He sees a figure in the background. She thinks it's Tom, but Tom is with everyone else. She is attacked and Lewis goes to her. Owen tries to call for help, but to no avail.
Dodger and Regina believe that Owen is responsible and that he is going to tell them what happened. Owen turns the tables and asks about Mr. Walker. Dodger tells him that she ended it and leaves the group. Tom spots something red on Regina's face. She looks and sees that it is blood. They follow a blood trail to find Randall in a confessional. Regina screams and wants to leave but Owen wants to get Dodger. Tom and Regina give him time to find her and he runs to her dorm room. Owen gets into the stairwell when Lewis looks over the side of the stairs on the third floor, telling Owen that Mercedes is missing and he should get help. Lewis is attacked and his body is dragged behind a door. Owen hears Dodger scream and goes to her room to see Tom's car leaving campus. He runs to the parking lot to see that Mr. Walker is still on campus. Owen runs to Mr. Walker's office and Mr. Walker's phone starts ringing. Owen answers and it is Dodger crying. She has found Mercedes dead. Dodger tells Owen that she is coming to him and can see him through the window. He looks out to see The Wolf kill her. Suddenly Mr. Walker comes inside. Owen notices that Mr. Walker has a jacket, an orange mask and a knife. Owen ends up shooting Mr. Walker. The door is suddenly opened by Dodger, Tom and Regina.
Owen is arrested for murder. Randall, Tom, Regina, Dodger, Lewis and Graham admit that it was a prank to get Mercedes and Owen back for making them stay on campus. Mr. Walker was involved with Becky, and Owen actually killed a wanted murderer. The gun in Mr. Walker's desk was the same one that killed Becky. Dodger visits Owen, and says that she would never have played the game if she knew that Mr. Walker was cheating on her, revealing that she was behind everything. Dodger killed Becky because she was jealous of Mr. Walker's relationship with her. Dodger asks, "Honestly, Owen, even if that were true, who would believe you?" The film ends showing Dodger killing Becky in the woods.
The film was rated PG-13 for "violence, terror, disturbing images, language, sexuality, and a brief drug reference".
America Online also helped publicizing the film in July/August 2005; launching an alternate reality game for AIM users to play by sending instant messages to each other, which ran for the duration of the film's promotion. The game itself ran similarly to the popular game 'Mafia', just replacing villagers and mafia with sheep and wolves.
At the box office, Cry_Wolf grossed $10,047,674 domestically and $5,537,821 internationally, making a worldwide total of $15,585,821.[1]
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