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Mayor Tom Loftis attempts to revive his struggling island community, located 40 miles off the coast of New England, but dark secrets lurk beneath the surface
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Jack Seale
Matthew Rhys rarely puts a foot wrong and, although it’s not his normal fare he lands another winner as the lead in Katie Dippold’s very funny comedy horror. The manic intensity that tends to bubble inside Rhys’s characters now fuels a faultless comic turn as Tom Loftis, the perpetually thwarted mayor of Widow’s Bay.
Beset by lazy, eccentric underlings, Loftis wants to turn this slightly dilapidated island, he lands community into a tourist destination for north-eastern Americans, to rival Martha’s Vineyard or Cape Cod – and he has a newspaper travel writer arriving today to write the place up. Just one problem: could today also be the dawn of “the terror”, an ancient curse manifested in a smothering fog that steals mortals’ souls?
With Rhys superb as the only sane man in whichever room he walks into – or at least, that’s what Mayor Tom thinks – the fact that the idiot locals’ daft superstitions might well be correct cleverly adds another layer to a reliable comic set-up. Tom wants to control the world around him, but Widow’s Bay has a mind of its own.
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rolenameTom LoftisMatthew RhysPatriciaKate O'FlynnBechirKevin CarrollRosemaryDale DickeyEvanKingston Rumi SouthwickWyckStephen RootRuthK CallanDaleJeff HillerKurtNeil CaseyGerrieNancy Lenehan
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rolenameWriterKatie Dippold
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