The Grief Tourist
He Goes to Dark Places...
2013 | 84m | English
Popularity: 0.6 (history)
| Director: | Suri Krishnamma |
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| Writer: | Frank John Hughes |
| Staring: |
| 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... | |
| Release Date: | Aug 23, 2013 |
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| Director: | Suri Krishnamma |
| Writer: | Frank John Hughes |
| Genres: | Drama, Thriller |
| Keywords | prostitute, serial killer, transsexual |
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Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 30, 2026 Entered: Apr 15, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Melanie Griffith | Betsy |
| Michael Cudlitz | Jim |
| Pruitt Taylor Vince | Carl Marznap |
| Suzanne Quast | Iris |
| Brad Bufanda | Manny |
| Eddie J. Fernandez | Osvaldo |
| Abigail Schrader | |
| Waymond Lee | Office Worker |
| Samantha Lester | Donna |
| Nayo Wallace | Janita |
| Joseph John Schirle | Young Jim |
| Linda S. Wong | LA Female Reporter (as Linda Wong) |
| Chris Hayes | Crime-Scene Investigator |
| Donna Ponterotto | Gerry |
| Stefanie Kleine | Olga |
| Marcel Mazur | Grant |
| Brian Hall | Tom |
| Samantha Belén | Donna (as Samantha Lester) |
| Ernesto Chaverri | Det. Ramirez |
| Steve Nave | Reverend Amos Sanders |
| Danielle Lester | Diner Patron |
| Joan McCarthy | AA participant |
| Ken Garcia | Agent Gomez |
| Anni Cyrus | |
| Sylvia Lester | AA Speaker |
| Maxine English | Terry |
| Hannah Rogers | |
| Brandon Woxland | Teen Attacker 2 |
| Zackary James Woxland | Teen Attacker 1 |
| Michael Woxland Jr. | Teen Attacker 3 |
| Ethan Burnette | The Hawk |
| Saunders Hyldreth | Cook |
| Shannon McNulty | Diner Patron |
| Howie B. Cohen | Walt Tahna |
| Victor A. Sandoval | Mexican Teen |
| Morgan Lawton | FBI Agent |
| David Warshofsky | Hotel Clerk (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Frank John Hughes | Writer |
| Suri Krishnamma | Director |
| Ricardo Jacques Gale | Director of Photography |
| Austin Wintory | Original Music Composer |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Zachery Ty Bryan | Producer |
| Suzanne DeLaurentiis | Producer |
| Michael Cudlitz | Producer |
| Frank John Hughes | Producer |
| Adam Targum | Producer |
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