
Tell Tale
2009 · Movie · 92 min · ★ 5.3 · 30% critics
After a heart transplant, a man becomes convinced the donor’s death is pulling him into a dangerous mystery. As strange clues mount, he races to uncover a killer before the same fate reaches him.
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Details
- Original title
- Tell-Tale
- Years
- 2009
- Release date
- 2009-04-24
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Max quality
- SD
- Critic score
- 30/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.3/10 (149 votes)
About
If you like dark thrillers with a supernatural-tinged mystery, this may work for you, especially if Horsemen or The Echo appealed to you; Not for you if you want a lighter story or clear-cut realism.
Pros: tense premise; mystery-driven chase; eerie hook | Cons: dark subject matter; unsettling violence; limited review consensus
Themes
- heart attack
- detective
- paranoia
- flashback
- murder
- hospital
- organ donation
Cast & crew

Josh Lucas
as Terry

Lena Headey
as Elizabeth

Brian Cox
as Van Doren

Bea Miller
as Angela

Dallas Roberts
as The Surgeon

Ulrich Thomsen
as Lethe

Pablo Schreiber
as Cochius

Jamie Harrold
as Stanovich

Tom Riis Farrell
as Legethon

Michael Kenneth Williams
as Acherton
Directed by Michael Cuesta