The Walker

The Walker (2007)

Everyone loves a good scandal.

Carter Page III, a middle-aged gay man in Washington, D. C., is a "walker", a single man who escorts other men's wives to social events so the husbands do not have to. One of the women he escorts, Lynn Lockner, is the wife of a United States senator and is carrying on an affair with a lobbyist. When she finds the lobbyist murdered, she embroils Carter in an investigation that leads to the highest levels of the federal government.

Date of release
2007-02-13
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (113)
Runtime
1h 48m
Genres
Crime, Mystery, Drama
Director
Paul Schrader

Casting

Interesting facts

The Walker is a 2007 independent crime drama film written and directed by Paul Schrader and starring Woody Harrelson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall, Ned Beatty, Lily Tomlin, Willem Dafoe, Moritz Bleibtreu and Mary Beth Hurt. It is the fourth installment in Schrader's night workers series of films, starting with Taxi Driver in 1976, followed by American Gigolo in 1980 and Light Sleeper in 1992.

Production

Schrader completed the script in 2002. Initially the film was to be a direct sequel to American Gigolo, with Julian Kaye (played by Richard Gere) as the lead character. The director originally wanted Kevin Kline to play the lead.

Years later, Schrader would lament the film on his Facebook page as "the most distressing failure" of his career. He also said that the film was miscast and that he wanted openly gay actor Rupert Everett as the lead.

The Page character was based on Jerry Zipkin, for whom the term "walker" was coined.

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