Country: Canada
Year: 2026
Duration: 96'
Clyde Mortimer is a broke, stressed-out funeral director on the edge of ruin in an economically depressed small town. It’s the end of the pandemic and there were no funerals or visitations allowed for the longest time. And now, nobody has died in town for months. His introverted granddaughter, Sam, can’t stand her grandparents fighting over finances and she decides to help out the family business by collaborating with fate in a most unusual way. The local police are no match for Sam’s criminal sneakiness, and she finds true love on her journey while an unlucky few pay the ultimate price for the Mortimers’ return to success.
Biography
film director
Ron Murphy
(Canada) began his career dreaming of making a movie while working as an assistant to the legendary comedy superstar John Candy. This led to directing multiple TV projects for The Second City, including a special starring Steve Carell in his first TV role. He has worked with performers including Leslie Nielsen, Tim Conway, Amy Sedaris and Snoop Dogg, and directing the early television appearances of Michael Cera and Drake. In 2005, he worked alongside Quentin Tarantino on the season finale of CSI and won an International Emmy Award as a producer of Dark Oracle. Over the course of his career, he has produced more than 80 episodes and directed over 270, earning numerous nominations for Best Director. His television credits include Trailer Park Boys, Heartland, Lost Girl, Dark Matter and Wynonna Earp. After years of experience in television, he made his feature film debut with Back in Black.
FILMOGRAFIA
Street Cents (st, 1989-2006), The Gavin Crawford Show (st, 2000-2003, 30 ep.), The Daily Blade (st, 2000), In a Heartbeat (st, 2001, 2 ep.), Liography (st, 2001-2003), Sonic Temple (st, 2001), Our Hero (st, 2001, 2 ep.), Rideau Hall (st, 2002), Train 48 (st, 2003, 29 ep.), Strange Days at Blake Holsey High (st, 2004, 1 ep.), Metropia (st, 2004-2005), Degrassi: The Next Generation (st, 2004, 4 ep.), The Jane Show (st, 2004, 1 ep.), Devil’s Perch (ftv, 2005), Dark Oracle (st, 2004-2006, 12 ep.), 11 Cameras (st, 2006), La mia vita con Derek (Life with Derek, st, 2005-2006, 16 ep.), Jeff Ltd. (st, 2006-2007, 10 ep.), ReGenesis (st, 2006-2007, 4 ep.), Billable Hours (st, 2007-2008, 4 ep.), Da Kink in My Hair (st, 2009, 2 ep.), Being Erica (st, 2009, 2 ep.), Heartland (st, 2007-2010, 8 ep.), The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour (st, 2011, 6 ep.), Dan for Mayor (st, 2010-2011, 12 ep.), InSecurity (st, 2011, 6 ep.), Wingin’ It (st, 2010-2012, 4 ep.), Home Stuff (cm, 2013), Seed (st, 2013-2014, 6 ep.), Young Drunk Punk (st, 2015, 5 ep.), Lost Girl (st, 2013-2015, 9 ep.), Dark Matter (st, 2015-2017, 7 ep.), Trailer Park Boys (st, 2014-2018, 16 ep.), Wynonna Earp (st, 2016-2020, 13 ep.), Jann (st, 2019-2021, 22 ep.), JANN: Alone for the Holidays (miniserie TV, 2022), Life with Luca (st, 2023), SkyMed (st, 2022-2025, 8 ep.), Trailer Park Boys: Jail (st, 2025, 8 ep.), Back in Black (2026).
Declaration
film director
“Back in Black is an exploration of emotional duality: the unsettling coexistence of tenderness and predation, intimacy and ruthlessness, love and annihilation. The characters of Clyde and Sam became vehicles through which I could explore these contradictions. Clyde is, in many respects, an ideal patriarch — affectionate, devoted, protective — yet he possesses an almost mythic capacity for ruthlessness when survival requires it. Sam, meanwhile, embodies a gentler and more elusive danger: a quiet soul whose empathy coexists with an anarchic willingness to inflict devastation on others in service of family continuity. I was interested in the idea that monstrosity does not announce itself through obvious evil, but through ordinary people who justify increasingly catastrophic acts through the language of love, loyalty, and necessity.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Ron Murphy. SCREENPLAY: Ron Murphy, Nick Torokvei. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jeremy Benning. EDITING: Trevor Ambrose. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Ashley Devereux. MUSIC: Nikhil Seetharam. SOUND: Brian Horrell. CAST: Christopher Walken, Ella Ballentine, Jane Curtin, Giamo Rowekamp, Tony Nappo, Louise Claire Lambert, Watson Rose, Josh Richards, Tom Keat, Deborah Grover, Stuart Hughes, Sandra Flores, Don Lake, Clive Walton, Claire Coulter, Scott Wickware, Ordena Stephens-Thompson, Cooper Levy, Marqus Noneshi, Thomas Gough, Nicholas Rice. PRODUCTION: Will Woods, Ron Murphy, Liz Levine, Maddy Falle for Page 12 Pictures, Central Fiction Inc. CONTACT: Embankment Films - https://embankmentfilms.com/
