Lolita (Christy Scott Cashman) sleeps on a recliner oblivious to the looming shadow cast by Judd (Eric Scheiner) as he descends the stairs in a scene from filmmaker Angel Connell's BENEATH THE VENEER OF A MURDER (2010)

Beneath the Veneer of a Murder

2010Unrated8m
ShortCrimeDramaMysteryThriller
7.3 / 10(37)

A brief, tense phone conversation between politically connected powerhouse Tom Buchanan and a desperate lower-class thug named Judd over Buchanan's bisexual wife Daisy, her working-class lover Lolita and Bartlesby, the enigmatic head of Buchanan's personal security force, results in an interlocking series of actions which culminates in a brutal murder. Thereafter the Buchanans, in a subsequent phone, conversation grapple with the fall-out from the crime, its alleged resolution, and the effect the incident has had on their open marriage.

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Unrated
Runtime
8m
Released
2010

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Release year: 2010

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A brief, tense phone conversation between politically connected powerhouse Tom Buchanan and a desperate lower-class thug named Judd over Buchanan's bisexual wife Daisy, her working-class lover Lolita and Bartlesby, the enigmatic head of Buchanan's personal security force, results in an interlocking series of actions which culminates in a brutal murder. Thereafter the Buchanans, in a subsequent phone, conversation grapple with the fall-out from the crime, its alleged resolution, and the effect the incident has had on their open marriage.

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