Leave (2011)

Director
Robert Celestino

Main cast
Bryan Cranston; Ron Livingston; Vinessa Shaw; Rick Gomez; Frank John Hughes

Genres
Thriller, Mystery

Description
Henry Harper is a successful novelist who has it all. But after surviving a recent trauma he finds himself haunted by a dream that terrifies him. Convinced that the only way to understand what the dream means is to write his way through it, Henry decides to go to a remote second home to begin work on his next novel, a thriller. While on his way there he encounters a strangely familiar drifter who confronts him with information that threatens to turn everything he knows to be true, upside down. Written by producer


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