Stephanie gets some sympathy because she’s got a baby, Officer Jimson and Officer Paul (Michael Beasley and Jody Thompson) are memorable courtesy of a particularly disturbing house call and the doctor makes an impact due to his dedication, but none have an arc and ultimately, their stories go nowhere.Īnd that’s “The Bay’s” biggest problem.
Yes, the variety gives us a well-rounded view of the disaster, but it also reduces each and every character to a mere face in the crowd.
Jack Abrams (Stephen Kunken), the home video made by Stephanie (Kristen Connolly) and her husband, and more. We’ve got Donna’s news footage, security camera footage from all over town, the videos shot by the oceanographers, police car footage, the material shot by Dr. Donna commands a good portion of the film’s first act, but then we move into a montage of Donna’s 2009 footage as well as snippets from a number of other perspectives. But what makes it even tougher to connect to Donna is the fact that “The Bay” isn’t even her story. Donohue’s a fine actress, but it’s a tough sell as Levinson merely has 2012 Donna preaching to a computer camera, Skype-style in an empty room.
The story is framed just as you might expect – three years after the nightmare, Donna finally gets ahold of the footage from Jand opts to stitch it together, creating a found footage film. Otherwise they might have realized a parasitic outbreak was brewing in their pristine bay. Too bad none of the Claridge officials properly investigated the recent case of two dead oceanographers. Conveniently located along the Chesapeake Bay, the day is packed with water-related events – swimming, a crab eating contest, a dunk tank and more. Kudos to director Barry Levinson and writer Michael Wallach for making a movie that actually attempts to compile a more realistic version of found footage, but, in the end, doing so at the expense of a proper narrative and engaging characters just isn’t worth it.ĭonna Thompson (Kether Donohue) is a college student interning at a local TV station who’s getting her first big gig – covering the Independence Day festivities in Claridge, Maryland. Typically a found footage film means one person just happens to be recording during a phenomenon and just so happens to be committed enough to risk his or her life to keep recording in order to tell the story from beginning to end in a format that just so happens to match a standard screenplay structure. Starring: Kether Donohue, Kristen Connolly, Anthony Reynolds, Andy Stahl, Jody Thompson, Stephen Kunken, Frank Deal, Will Rogers
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