Taglines: Someone’s Always Watching.
The Night Clerk Movie Storyline. Bart Bromley (Tye Sheridan) lives with his mom (Helen Hunt) and has Asperger’s syndrome. He places hidden cameras in a room at the hotel where he works as a night desk clerk, and uses the live feeds and recordings to overcome his social awkwardness by imitating the speech and mannerisms of the guests. On his nightly shift, Bart watches Karen, who has recently checked in. After his shift, he buys ice cream, goes home, and continues to watch Karen.
Bart sees Karen let an unknown man into her room. After they argue, the man begins to beat her. Bart watches as a gun falls from Karen’s purse, then drives to the hotel to try to rescue her. He enters via a side door, and soon afterwards Bart’s co-worker Jack hears a gunshot. Jack enters Karen’s room, where he finds Karen dead and Bart sitting on the bed. While Jack calls 911, Bart removes the hidden cameras, but accidentally leaves a storage card behind.
The next day, Bart is questioned by Detective Espada (John Leguizamo) and claims he went home after buying ice cream, then returned to the hotel because he forgot his wallet. Espada realizes Bart is lying because if he did not have his wallet, he would not have been able to buy ice cream. Bart later re-watches the recording of Karen’s room and sees that the man she met had a tattoo of a bird on his arm.
The next day, Bart’s boss reassigns him to a new hotel. On his first shift, he meets Andrea Rivera (Ana de Armas), who recognizes that he has Asperger’s, flirts with him, and checks into a room. The next day, Bart finds that he is missing a storage card, which Espada finds. Bart places cameras in Andrea’s room and later shares a kiss with her near the hotel’s pool.
The following day, Bart gets a haircut and buys a new suit, car, and cologne. He tries to visit Andrea at the hotel, only to find her having sex with the unknown man from Karen’s room, whom he recognizes from the tattoo. Bart returns home and finds police have taken all his computer and camera equipment. He tells Espada his hard drives are empty because he deleted all the recordings before police arrived. After Espada leaves, Bart retrieves a hidden hard drive which contains a copy of the recording from Karen’s room.
The Night Clerk is a 2020 American crime drama film, written and directed by Michael Cristofer. It stars Tye Sheridan, Ana de Armas, John Leguizamo and Helen Hunt, and follows a hotel night clerk who becomes the center of a murder investigation. The film was released on February 21, 2020, by Saban Films. On June 6, 2020, Netflix released the film on its platform.
The Night Clerk (2020)
Directed by: Michael Cristofer
Starring: Tye Sheridan, Helen Hunt, Ana de Armas, John Leguizamo, Johnathon Schaec, Jacque Gray, Austin Archer, Cindy Perez, Stacey Ann Turner, Alireza Mirmontazeri
Screenplay by: Michael Cristofer
Production Design by: Diane Millett
Cinematography by: Noah Greenberg
Film Editing by: Kristi Shimek
Costume Design by: acqueline Johnson
Set Decoration by: Leslie Smoot
Music by: Erik Hall
MPAA Rating: R for language, some sexual references, brief nudity and violent images.
Distributed by: Saban Films
Release Date: February 21, 2020 (United States)
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