Empty Fuller (2008)★ 8.3/10

US · 89 min · 2008

• Drama
• Romance
• Thriller

Directed by: Brian Cwikla

Written by: Brian Cwikla

David Fuller is trapped in a life of deadening sameness. His only solace is the world he dives into when he reads a book. Friendless, isolated - he is disconnected from the world in a way that not even his own deepest secrets are known to himself. Laura Matthews, a successful businesswoman, sees David reading at lunchtime outside her office window every day. Curiously drawn to him, she one day walks up to him and introduces herself. They quickly discover that they have a shared past. This is not the happy reunion of childhood friends but rather the reopening of old wounds that never healed and left them with lasting consequences. Empty Fuller is a story of the past. It is the story of how one small misunderstanding, one single moment in time, can have heartbreaking consequences. And how those moments can grow, and fester, in the fertile soil of an adolescent mind, until the only possible result is an explosion of rage, bitterness, and violence. Kirsten Øhrn Dyrud's haunting score carries us through this emotional journey of one man's struggle to overcome the tragedy of his life; of a woman's struggle to move beyond her own mistakes, and through gaining forgiveness, learn how to forgive herself.