Fray

Fray (2012)

A young Marine veteran is facing a new battle back home while struggling through a shattered economy and burdened by the physical and emotional scars of war.

Date of release
2012-04-13
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Drama
Director
Geoff Ryan

Casting

Interesting facts

Fray is a 2012 independent film starring Bryan Kaplan and Marisa Costa. It was written and directed by Geoff Ryan, with cinematography by Jarin Blaschke, and produced by Jodi Redmond.

Production

Writer-director Geoff Ryan got the idea for his film when his wounded cousin returned home from Iraq. The veteran recovered well, largely because he had a tight family to lean on for whatever support he needed, but told stories of some of his buddies who had to deal with issues that were "not just the physical or the psychological, but the bureaucratic" that Ryan had never heard before.

Ryan said it would be impossible for him to understand what going through combat was like, but decided that their experience back home was something he could tap into. He began traveling across the United States to meet with and interview homeless veterans. Ryan initially wanted to do a documentary, but found his subjects unwilling to open up in front of a camera.

He tried a "short film experiment", and it turned out well enough that he began looking for actors for a feature film version. He wrote the part of Justin with Bryan Kaplan in mind because "I knew he could pull it off." Ryan gathered a "phenomenally talented group of friends" in 2010; principal photography was completed over one month in the mountains along the Oregon coast.

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