# Tape (2001)

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**Runtime**: 87 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Richard Linklater
**Written by**: Stephen Belber
**Starring**: Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, Uma Thurman

> *Some things can't be erased.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Lansing’s reunion weekend meets a hostage thriller without the hostages. A filmmaker’s homecoming with his old friend—a fireman who moonlights as a dealer—starts warmly, then curdles into unresolved scores from the past. The static camera traps two men on the edge of a confession neither wants to make.

**Mood tags**: cerebral, paranoid, tender

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