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About Tell

Tell is a 2014 crime thriller directed by J.M.R. Luna and starring Katee Sackhoff, Jason Lee and Milo Ventimiglia. Written by actor/screenwriter Timothy Williams, it was produced by Haven Entertainment, distributed by Orion Pictures, and was released on December 4.

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Plot

Ethan Tell is a small time crook who makes a big-time score when he steals 1 million dollars from a bank job that had been planned by his brother-in-law. Ironically, his life radically changes for the worse when he discovers that stealing the money was the easy part, as his wife shoots him after the police follow him home. Tell is subsequently arrested and sentenced to three years in prison when he continually claims that the money was destroyed in a fire.

Cast

Milo Ventimiglia as Tell

Katee Sackhoff as Beverly

Jason Lee as Ray

Robert Patrick as Ashton

Alan Tudyk as Morton

John Michael Higgins as Huffman

Faizon Love as Dwight Johnson

Oscar Nunez as Father Jack

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Notable quotes

“Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil.”
— Beaumont and Fletcher, Wit Without Money (c. 1614; 1639), Act IV, scene 4.
“A heart never created hatred; speech created hatred.”
— Sumerian proverb, Collection I at , .
“Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech.”
— II Corinthians, III. 12.
“It is never so difficult to speak as when we are ashamed of our silence.”
— François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims. No. 178.
“Deus ille princeps, parens rerum fabricatorque mundi, nullo magis hominem separavit a ceteris, quæ quidem mortalia sunt, animalibus, quam dicendi facultate.”
— God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and Architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
“Il faut distinguer entre parler pour tromper et se taire pour être impénétrable.”
— We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

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