The Grief Tourist

The story

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...

Cast

M Melanie GriffithBetsy M Michael CudlitzJim P Pruitt Taylor VinceCarl Marznap S Suzanne QuastIris B Brad BufandaManny E Eddie J. FernandezOsvaldo A Abigail Schrader W Waymond LeeOffice Worker S Samantha LesterDonna N Nayo WallaceJanita J Joseph John SchirleYoung Jim L Linda S. WongLA Female Reporter (as Linda Wong)

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C Chris HayesCrime-Scene Investigator D Donna PonterottoGerry S Stefanie KleineOlga M Marcel MazurGrant B Brian HallTom S Samantha BelénDonna (as Samantha Lester) E Ernesto ChaverriDet. Ramirez S Steve NaveReverend Amos Sanders D Danielle LesterDiner Patron J Joan McCarthyAA participant K Ken GarciaAgent Gomez A Anni Cyrus S Sylvia LesterAA Speaker M Maxine EnglishTerry H Hannah Rogers B Brandon WoxlandTeen Attacker 2 Z Zackary James WoxlandTeen Attacker 1 M Michael Woxland Jr.Teen Attacker 3 E Ethan BurnetteThe Hawk S Saunders HyldrethCook S Shannon McNultyDiner Patron H Howie B. CohenWalt Tahna V Victor A. SandovalMexican Teen M Morgan LawtonFBI Agent D David WarshofskyHotel Clerk (uncredited)