Peace of Mind

 

 

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Synopsis:

Peace Of Mind is a snapshot of a New York relationship. The eye of the camera brings you into an escalating romance between two people who meet by chance, and then slows down to capture a moment that alters both their lives forever.

After meeting Angelina on the busy streets of Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, Stephen convinces her to have a coffee with him. Over coffee, Stephen wins Angelina over with his charm and wit. As they spend more time together Stephen finds it easier to forget about his ex-girlfriend, whilst Angelina begins to see the potential for an honest relationship with Stephen.

As the film continues, the demons that Angelina and Stephen have repressed from each other come to the fore. The film’s tempo, initially set to upbeat contemporary music, shifts to a dark and foreboding scored soundtrack. Angelina’s past pushes her to make a grave decision involving Stephen that will haunt her forever. Stephen’s past also comes back to haunt him, when he's forced to reveal to his ex-girlfriend the fate that befell him at Angelina’s hands.

What started out to bear the hallmarks of a serious relationship descends into darkness; leaving Stephen with reason to fear for his life and Angelina with even more reason to question her morality.

Peace Of Mind tells a cautionary tale of the dangers we face when we fail to take the time to know those we become intimate with and how the secrets of our past can never stay hidden forever.

 

 

Directed and Written by Nathan Crooker

Produced by Sydney Fisher
Cinematographer Brian Jackson
2008, Country: USA

 

Nathan Crooker is an accomplished TV commercial Director with such clients as Miller Lite, Mini Cooper and Microsoft. “Peace of Mind” is his first foray in to the film world. He is currently shopping three feature scripts and plans to shoot his first feature the beginning of next year. Crooker is also a documentarian who has traveled around the world twice visiting over 30 different countries. His latest project as the Director of Photography, Holy Wars, took him into the heart of the Middle East for two months searching for answers to fundamentalist Islam. The film will be finished this year through Smuggler. Just to add to Crooker's accolades he is also an actor who starred in the Sundance 2005 hit, “This Revolution” opposite Rosario Dawson. He has also been published several times in Death and Taxes Magazine as a writer and for his documentary photography in Palestine, Sierra Leona, Iran, and the cocaine jungles of Peru.