Suture

Suture (1993)

A thriller where nothing is black and white.

A man named Clay flies into Phoenix for a reunion with his long-lost half-brother Vincent.

Date of release
1993-09-14
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (44)
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Drama, Thriller
Director
Scott McGehee, David Siegel

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $900K
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Sitges Film Festival Best Director award

Suture is a 1993 American thriller film written and directed, and produced by Scott McGehee and David Siegel. It stars Dennis Haysbert and Mel Harris. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.

Production

Scott McGehee and David Siegel had been working together since 1989. They had made two short films: "Birds Past" and "Speak Then Persephone" in 1989 and 1990, respectively. Afterwards, they decided to make a feature-length film and "attempted to construct a story that was generally about identity". McGehee has said that Suture was influenced by mid-1960s Japanese films and Hollywood films like North by Northwest.

McGehee and Siegel set up a limited partnership and borrowed money for the $1 million budget from family and friends. They decided to shoot Suture in Phoenix, Arizona because McGehee felt that it was "almost like an abandoned city, it's so large and overbuilt and the streets are so dead it feels empty". They liked the city's "high modernist, very spare aesthetic".

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