Chicago – An original voice, in an original conceptual movie, is a rare category of cinema art. Director and lead actor Pat Healy, working from a script from Mike Makowsky, has fashioned “Take Me,” a thriller about kidnapping and having the tables turned.
Healy is Ray, a kind of loser who stumbles upon a new business… providing kidnapping scenarios for willing clients. Business is bad – there is an hilarious opening with Ray trying to get a loan from a local bank – until a new client emerges (Taylor Schilling of ‘Orange is the New Black’), who wants more from the service than the faux kidnapper had ever provided. The film, rich with tones of darkness and redemption, is exquisitely fashioned by Pat Healy, in his first feature length film as a director.
Director and Lead Actor Pat Healy of ‘Take Me’
Photo credit: The Orchard
Pat Healy has been a journeyman actor,...
Healy is Ray, a kind of loser who stumbles upon a new business… providing kidnapping scenarios for willing clients. Business is bad – there is an hilarious opening with Ray trying to get a loan from a local bank – until a new client emerges (Taylor Schilling of ‘Orange is the New Black’), who wants more from the service than the faux kidnapper had ever provided. The film, rich with tones of darkness and redemption, is exquisitely fashioned by Pat Healy, in his first feature length film as a director.
Director and Lead Actor Pat Healy of ‘Take Me’
Photo credit: The Orchard
Pat Healy has been a journeyman actor,...
- 5/14/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Over the last few weeks, the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival celebrated the best that the indie filmmaking world has to offer, and during the fest’s run, I had the chance to check out just a few of the genre-related offerings on Tribeca’s lineup: The Endless from Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson, Pat Healy’s feature film directorial debut, Take Me, and the psychological thriller Tilt from Kasra Farahani. Read on for my thoughts on this trio of thought-provoking cinematic treats.
The Endless: Before I start discussing The Endless, I want to take a moment and say that I feel like the best way to experience the latest from Benson and Moorhead is to go in knowing as little as possible, because that’s how I saw it, and it 110% blew my mind. That being said, part of my job is reviewing movies, so I promise I will keep...
The Endless: Before I start discussing The Endless, I want to take a moment and say that I feel like the best way to experience the latest from Benson and Moorhead is to go in knowing as little as possible, because that’s how I saw it, and it 110% blew my mind. That being said, part of my job is reviewing movies, so I promise I will keep...
- 5/12/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Taylor Schilling's new movie Take Me finds the Orange Is the New Black star in quite the strange scenario.
The film centers around Ray Moody (played by director Pat Healy), who is running an immersive kidnapping therapy business out of his basement. Anna St. Blair (Schilling) is a successful Hollywood businesswoman who discovers his Kidnap Solutions, LLC website — which, as a fun Easter egg, now exists online just as it's shown in the film — and makes the struggling Ray an offer he can't refuse: a weekend abduction, with the special request of being slapped around, for far...
The film centers around Ray Moody (played by director Pat Healy), who is running an immersive kidnapping therapy business out of his basement. Anna St. Blair (Schilling) is a successful Hollywood businesswoman who discovers his Kidnap Solutions, LLC website — which, as a fun Easter egg, now exists online just as it's shown in the film — and makes the struggling Ray an offer he can't refuse: a weekend abduction, with the special request of being slapped around, for far...
- 5/7/2017
- by Jackie Strause
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Pat Healy’s Take Me is a wild card – but what else would you expect from a man whose performances are just as unpredictable? It’s a nifty little whodunnit that’s loads of fun, given how every action remains in question. Writer Mike Makowsky keeps details simple, but still finds a way to manipulate characters with the help of Healy’s vision. You’d expect something a little more tense, but oddly good-natured goofs represent tonal comfort. Frankly, this shouldn’t work. A who’s-playing-who “thriller” that bumbles along to an oboe score? Like a cartoon might? Consider this one a not-so-criminal anomaly.
Healy also stars as the film’s lead character, Ray Moody, who runs a business called Kidnap Solutions that simulates real-life kidnappings for paying customers. Why, you ask? As Ray describes, he loves helping people. Whether you’re trying to kick an eating habit or need the isolation,...
Healy also stars as the film’s lead character, Ray Moody, who runs a business called Kidnap Solutions that simulates real-life kidnappings for paying customers. Why, you ask? As Ray describes, he loves helping people. Whether you’re trying to kick an eating habit or need the isolation,...
- 5/6/2017
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 Kicks Off the Summer With a Sci-Fi Action-Comedy
After three weeks of dominating the box office, Universal’s The Fate of the Furious is going to have to give way to a new movie, and that’s because the first weekend of May means that it’s officially...The Summer Movie Season!!!!
Just like the last couple years, the summer movie season is kicking off with a new movie from Marvel Studios, and their sequel Guardians Of The Galaxy, Vol. 2 (Marvel Studios/Disney), reunites Chris Pratt as Starlord, Zoe Saldana as Gamora, Dave Bautista’s Drax, Michael Rooker’s Yondu with the voices of Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper as Groot and Rocket Racoon, for the next...
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 Kicks Off the Summer With a Sci-Fi Action-Comedy
After three weeks of dominating the box office, Universal’s The Fate of the Furious is going to have to give way to a new movie, and that’s because the first weekend of May means that it’s officially...The Summer Movie Season!!!!
Just like the last couple years, the summer movie season is kicking off with a new movie from Marvel Studios, and their sequel Guardians Of The Galaxy, Vol. 2 (Marvel Studios/Disney), reunites Chris Pratt as Starlord, Zoe Saldana as Gamora, Dave Bautista’s Drax, Michael Rooker’s Yondu with the voices of Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper as Groot and Rocket Racoon, for the next...
- 5/4/2017
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
Best known for his dramatic turns in a number of cult favourite movies over the last few years, notably Compliance, Cheap Thrills and The Innkeepers, Pat Healy is making his feature film debut behind the camera in the action comedy Take Me.
Written by up-and-comer Mike Makowsky, Healy directs and also stars as Ray Moody, a businessman with an upstart business specializing in kidnappings. That's right, for a fee, Moody will orchestrate the kidnapping of your dreams.
For his latest job, he's hired by Anna St. Blair (Taylor Schilling of "Orange is the New Black" fame) for a "surprise" kidnapping job. Things quickly get bad for Moody when it turns out Anna may not be who she claims to be. Comedy ensues.
This doesn't look quite as dark as [Continued ...]...
Written by up-and-comer Mike Makowsky, Healy directs and also stars as Ray Moody, a businessman with an upstart business specializing in kidnappings. That's right, for a fee, Moody will orchestrate the kidnapping of your dreams.
For his latest job, he's hired by Anna St. Blair (Taylor Schilling of "Orange is the New Black" fame) for a "surprise" kidnapping job. Things quickly get bad for Moody when it turns out Anna may not be who she claims to be. Comedy ensues.
This doesn't look quite as dark as [Continued ...]...
- 5/2/2017
- QuietEarth.us
May 2017 is going to give genre fans plenty of reasons to stay home this month, as we have a lot of cool titles to look forward to. The month kicks off with Even Lambs Have Teeth on May 2nd, and just a few days later, Take Me (the latest from Pat Healy) and the horror comedy Another Evil make their digital debuts. Jordan Peele’s Get Out makes its digital bow on May 9th before hitting VOD platforms just a few weeks later, and the Australian thriller Hounds of Love gets released on May 12th. And, for those of you who might have missed it in theaters, A Cure for Wellness arrives on Digital HD at the end of the month, too.
Other notable VOD releases for May 2017 include The Black Room, The Survivalist, Breakdown Lane, and 96 Souls.
American Exorcism (Uncork’d Entertainment) – May 2nd
After narrowly surviving a harrowing possession,...
Other notable VOD releases for May 2017 include The Black Room, The Survivalist, Breakdown Lane, and 96 Souls.
American Exorcism (Uncork’d Entertainment) – May 2nd
After narrowly surviving a harrowing possession,...
- 5/1/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Perhaps not all films are suited for the Duplass brothers treatment. Take Me, an amateurish directorial debut from actor Pat Healy, working from a script by Mike Makowsky, attempts to shoehorn a screwball comedy into the kind of drama where the action breaks for long scenes that easily might stretch 5-20 pages on paper for exposition. The effect is designed to create sympathy for characters in situations that find themselves in troubling situations of their own making, which is difficult when both characters prove to be so unlikable at their core.
Many bad, low-budget indies have been shot in the basement of many filmmaker’s parents’ houses, often about an abduction, but despite the presence of professional production values, Take Me does not add to the canon. The film first finds Ray Moody (played by Healy) seeking a bank loan for his business Kidnap Solutions LLC, a Los Angeles-based one-man...
Many bad, low-budget indies have been shot in the basement of many filmmaker’s parents’ houses, often about an abduction, but despite the presence of professional production values, Take Me does not add to the canon. The film first finds Ray Moody (played by Healy) seeking a bank loan for his business Kidnap Solutions LLC, a Los Angeles-based one-man...
- 4/30/2017
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
In his feature directorial debut, actor Pat Healy (Cheap Thrills) offers people the chance to purchase a simulated experience of a high-stakes abduction. Healy isn’t playing a real criminal, but his new fake kidnapee, played by Taylor Schilling (Orange is the New Black), may turn into one. Ray Moody’s (Healy) alternative therapy, like most too good to be true […]
The post ‘Take Me’ Trailer: Taylor Schilling Tries Kidnapping Therapy in Pat Healy’s Directorial Debut appeared first on /Film.
The post ‘Take Me’ Trailer: Taylor Schilling Tries Kidnapping Therapy in Pat Healy’s Directorial Debut appeared first on /Film.
- 4/12/2017
- by Jack Giroux
- Slash Film
"Let me guess, Ray: you got carried away?" The Orchard has debuted a trailer for a dark comedy film titled Take Me, which is premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival coming up later this month. Take Me is the feature directorial debut of actor Pat Healy, who also stars in the film as the main character. Healy plays Ray, a man who starts a business specializing in abductions that provide alternative therapy for his clients. But one of his customers and his target aren't exactly as they seem, and things get crazy. The cast includes Taylor Schilling (from "Orange Is the New Black"), Toby Huss, Alejandro Patino, Alycia Delmore, and Mark Kelly. This looks wacky but also enjoyable, in a weird twisted way. Trust in Pat Healy, I guess. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Pat Healy's Take Me, direct from YouTube: Ray Moody (Pat Healy) is a...
- 4/10/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
You’ve seen his acting work in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Cheap Thrills, Compliance, The Innkeepers, and more, and now Pat Healy is getting behind the camera again for his solo directorial debut. The first trailer has arrived for Take Me, a new Duplass brothers production that is set in the world of high-end simulated abduction. Along with director, Healy also stars as the faux-kidnapper who gets in over his head when his latest target (Taylor Schilling) makes life a bit complicated.
Seemingly blending dark humor with some light danger — like a pellet gun instead of a real one — Take Me could introduce a strong directorial voice in the indie world. Ahead of a premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, and a release soon after, see the trailer below, along with a poster and synopsis.
Ray Moody (Pat Healy) is a fledgling entrepreneur, trying...
Seemingly blending dark humor with some light danger — like a pellet gun instead of a real one — Take Me could introduce a strong directorial voice in the indie world. Ahead of a premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, and a release soon after, see the trailer below, along with a poster and synopsis.
Ray Moody (Pat Healy) is a fledgling entrepreneur, trying...
- 4/10/2017
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
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