THE STORY

Ray Coleman (a well-known police detective) and his wife Heather are your average middle class couple. One day after a Sunday get together at their home with friends. Heather is found bludgeoned to death by a neighbor who sees two burglars running from the house. The friends quickly arrive on the scene for consolation and comfort. The police are already there when Ray and his younger brother Duncan arrive. Ray is devastated by his wife's grizzly murder. They had just stepped out for an hour to pick up supplies. Detective Higgins and her partner arrive to begin their investigation. She is tough, meticulous, does not adhere to the Blue Wall of Silence mind set that most cops have. The friends, Ray and Duncan must now stay put and submit to the Higgin's tactics. She believes that the crime was committed by one of them and not the burglars that the police are now chasing. The friends sit and wait. Slowly the skeletons start to come out of the closet and the recriminations start flying. It seems that suburbia is not as rosy at it appears.

THE CHARACTER

Duncan Coleman is a high strung, argumentative and emotional individual. A car mechanic who knows cars and not much else. A terribly insecure and shallow man. He treats his wife Maureen quite badly and probably beats her as well. He idolizes his brother Ray and is fiercely loyal to him. If Ray did not kill his wife then Duncan did. No matter what Duncan is in it with Ray and will protect him at all costs. He is also terrified of prison. There are no shades of gray in his world everything is black and white. Of the group he some how does not fit in and is only tolerated because he is Ray's brother.

COMMENTS

" Obstruction Of Justice was a small film made by two young first time filmmakers who managed to scrape up enough financing to make the film. When I first read the script a year before shooting it was a different story. It focused on the group of friends and the unraveling of that dynamic caused by a murder amoung them... "

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