THE  CHARACTERS
The Film The Characters The Style The Filmmakers Funding Storyboards 

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...Wolves in sheep's clothing. The woods are full of wolves...


   The Tell marks the introduction of some of the most arresting characters 
to be seen in an American film in some time.  Spouting cryptic, outrageous dialogue and 
imbuing the dreamy sequences with a sense of seriocomic mystery, these are people who 
will haunt you long after the lights have come up.



        HANNAH PILGRIM - An ace journalist in hiding following the grim proceedings of a
                         high-profile mob trial, Hannah finds herself trapped and isolated both 
                         physically and mentally in a shabby apartment in a decaying section of 
                         a nameless city.  Stricken with agoraphobia, Hannah passes the dreary 
                         days by eavesdropping on the tenants of the building, and gradually 
                         becomes convinced that a menacing plot is taking place when a man 
                         appears carrying a strange and dangerous parcel. . . .

        ADRIAN TINDLE — A timid man in the throes of a mid-life crisis, Tindle has 
                        involved himself in a scheme involving an esoteric “agency” in order to 
                        prove his affection for and buy his way into the heart of a floozy
                        girlfriend. But slowly Tindle comes to realize he is not safe at the 
                        rendezvous point for his “mission,” and that the courier he’s 
                        desperately waiting for is taking far too long to arrive. . . .

        MIKE MANNEQUIN — Possessing an ethereal charisma, Mannequin heads a band of 
                         bizarre miscreants.  But his overt rage and increasingly tenuous 
                         command of respect with the group soon gives way to the truth—that 
                         his methodical mind has been devoured by madness and that Michael 
                         Mannequin is far more dangerous than any of his followers had 
                         realized. . . .

        CARMINE ROSETTI — Glib, perhaps too glib for his own good, Rosetti is a cardsharp 
                         and a thief, a master of manipulation with the scruples of a 
                         second-rate salesman.  A spokesperson of the trade of thievery and 
                         lies, he finds his hubris compromising his position within Mannequin’s 
                         team, as a strange and violent series of events lead him to suspect he
                         is at the center of Mannequin’s next scheme. . . .

        CYD CHANNING — Perhaps the most enigmatic member of the rogues’ gallery, Cyd plies 
                       her trade as a manipulator with such grace and ease that one never knows
                       what her actual personality might be; everything she says and does is 
                       simultaneously part of a brilliant role-playing performance and a 
                       penetrating dose of the truth.  Like the shapeshifters of world mythology, 
                       she cannot be trusted, although she may very well be pointing toward 
                       the only way out. . . .

        GABRIEL MONK — A young street hustler suffering from schizophrenia, Monk lives in a 
                       childish world, oblivious to the dangerous game he’s playing under the
                       tutelage of Rosetti and Mannequin. . . .