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The Women of Route 40
- Erin Kathleen
- Set Up
- Black List
- 2020
- 87.5
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Market: Mon, 14 Dec 2020
AgentMark Hartogsohn, Alice Lawson, Frank Wuliger (Gersh)
ManagerJennifer Au (Jen Au Management)
CompanyPhantom Four Films
AgentMark Hartogsohn, Alice Lawson, Frank Wuliger (Gersh)
ManagerJennifer Au (Jen Au Management)
CompanyPhantom Four Films
A struggling single mother must confront dangerous forces - and sins of her past - when her world collides with that of a serial killer. Inspired by the true story of Delaware’s only serial murderer, the Route 40 killer.
As an investigation on a series of murders begins in 1980s Delaware, a single mother helps a local detective search for the killer.
A restaurant maître d teams up with a maverick detective and enters the world of prostitution that she has tried so hard to escape in order to track down and identify the serial killer who murdered her friend.
A single mother haunted by her past in prostitution helps a jaded detective track down a serial killer murdering women and prostitutes along Route 40 in Delaware.
Film
Mainstream (studio), Female Protagonist, Crime, Drama, Detective, Horror, Romance, Period, Thriller, Mystery, Cop/FBI/CIA, Dark, Kidnap, Murder, Rescue, Forensic, Dramedy, Historical, Chase, Criminal, Daughter, Death, FBI, Female, Investigation, Killer, Love, Mother, Mother/Daughter, Motherhood, Parenthood, Poverty, Prostitution, Relationship, Secrets, Serial Killer, Sex, Violence/Violent
117
R
Medium
F
Unspecified
40
Attractive
Silence of the Lambs (1991)Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)Kiss the Girls (1997)The Bone Collector (1999), Criminal Minds (TV).
November 1987/ About Two Weeks (6-month time-skip to epilogue
New Castle, Delaware: Miles’ unmarked police car, Air Command Restaurant (including dining area, kitchen, loading docks, bathrooms, The “Kum-on-In” bar, Our Lady of Fatima Church and Catholic School, a library, a truck stop, Pam Spinelli’s House, Pam Spinelli’s Car, The Hilton Hotel and Bar, The Interior of a Blue Van, a Pond, A Forest, a police station, a Park.
DIANE ELLIOT (40s) hitchhikes along Route 40. A man in a blue van picks her up, thinking she's a prostitute. She tells him she's not anymore. He kills her in the woods.
An hour earlier, PAM SPINELLI (40s) gives Diane a plate of food. Pam is the manager of the Air Command Restaurant, a fancy establishment. She works the night shift.
Pam's daughter NIKKI SPINELLI (16) works at a donut shop.
Pam talks to PAULIE DUBOIS (50), head chef, about business partners who are coming to the restaurant. She hopes that she can get off the night shift.
A week later police find Diane's body mutilated the woods. MILES STANTON (40s), detective, goes to the site. He is missing a foot. Chief SUSAN LANGLEY (60s) arrives. They notice a pattern in killings: a serial killer is targeting women who are/used to be prostitutes.
Pam goes to confessional.
Nikki asks Pam if she can go to a fraternity party. Pam says no.
Miles confronts Pam and asks if she knows Diane. Pam says no. Miles reveals Diane was murdered.
Pam goes to a group of prostitutes and asks them what they know. She gives one money. At a motel, a prostitute is being...
An hour earlier, PAM SPINELLI (40s) gives Diane a plate of food. Pam is the manager of the Air Command Restaurant, a fancy establishment. She works the night shift.
Pam's daughter NIKKI SPINELLI (16) works at a donut shop.
Pam talks to PAULIE DUBOIS (50), head chef, about business partners who are coming to the restaurant. She hopes that she can get off the night shift.
A week later police find Diane's body mutilated the woods. MILES STANTON (40s), detective, goes to the site. He is missing a foot. Chief SUSAN LANGLEY (60s) arrives. They notice a pattern in killings: a serial killer is targeting women who are/used to be prostitutes.
Pam goes to confessional.
Nikki asks Pam if she can go to a fraternity party. Pam says no.
Miles confronts Pam and asks if she knows Diane. Pam says no. Miles reveals Diane was murdered.
Pam goes to a group of prostitutes and asks them what they know. She gives one money. At a motel, a prostitute is being...