Rubberneck

Alex Karpovsky

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Paul Harris works at a small research facility on the outskirts of Boston. After a weekend tryst with a co-worker leaves him wanting more, his unreciprocated desires gradually mold into an acute infatuation. When Danielle takes interest in a new scientist at the laboratory, Paul’s suppressed resentments and perverse delusions finally become unhinged, triggering a horrific course of events that mercilessly engulf a tortured past and fugitive present.

DIRECTOR
Alex Karpovsky
YEAR
2012
COUNTRY
USA
RUNTIME
83 minutes
START DATE
February 22, 2013

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Months after a weekend fling, Boston research scientist Paul (Alex Karpovsky, Girls) continues to lust after his beautiful coworker Danielle (Jamie Ray Newman), nurturing his fantasies with the occasional polite exchange at work. But once she starts dating another scientist at their lab, his infatuation quickly turns into obsession – and he finds himself unable to control his desires. A slow-burn character study-turned-psychosexual thriller, co-written by Karpovsky and Garth Donovan, Rubberneck is a chillingly believable story of workplace romance gone wrong.

Tribeca Film Festival, 2012
Independent Film Festival of Boston, 2012

“Daring and authentic…here's hoping, and betting, that Hollywood takes notice” —Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

“Nicely sinister and shuddersome” —Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News

A “tightly constructed genre piece” —Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York

“Catches and sustains an ominous tone that gets under the skin.” —Neil Genzlinger, New York Times

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