Conspiracy is a 2008 action/drama film released as direct-to-video

Direct-to-video

Direct-to-video is a term used to describe a film that has been released to the public on home video formats without being released in film theaters or broadcast on television...

 on March 18, 2008. The film is influenced by the classic western film noir thriller Bad Day at Black Rock

Bad Day at Black Rock

Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 thriller film directed by John Sturges that combines elements of Westerns and film noir. It tells the story of a mysterious stranger who arrives at a tiny isolated town in a desert of the southwest United States in search of a man...

(1955), which itself was an adaptation of a short story "Bad Time at Honda" by Howard Breslin

Howard Breslin

Howard Breslin was an American novelist and radio script writer. He mainly wrote novels of historical fiction and is most notable for The Tamarack Tree and Bad Day at Black Rock...

.

While Bad Day at Black Rock tells the story of wounded WWII vet John J. Macreedy, Conspiracy revolves around William "Spooky" Macpherson, a disabled special operations marine wounded during combat operations in Iraq. When Macpherson decides to visit a friend on a ranch in the southwest, he discovers that his friend has disappeared, and no one will acknowledge that he ever lived there.

The film is directed by Adam Marcus

Adam Marcus

Adam Marcus is an American film director, writer and actor.Marcus was born in Westport, Connecticut in the U.S.. He is the brother of Young Artist Award-nominated actor Kipp Marcus...

 and stars Val Kilmer

Val Kilmer

Val Edward Kilmer is an American actor. Originally a stage actor, Kilmer became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appearances in comedy films, starting with Top Secret! , then the cult classic Real Genius , as well as blockbuster action films, including a supporting role in Top Gun and a...

 and Jennifer Esposito

Jennifer Esposito

Jennifer Esposito is an American actress, dancer and model, known for her appearances in films such as I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Summer of Sam and Crash and in television series such as Spin City, The Looney Tunes Show and Samantha Who?.-Early life:Esposito, an Italian-American, was...

. It was filmed in Galisteo, New Mexico

Galisteo, New Mexico

Galisteo is a census-designated place in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States. It is part of the Santa Fe, New Mexico Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 265 at the 2000 census.-Geography:...

.

Cast

Actor	Role
Val Kilmer Val Kilmer Val Edward Kilmer is an American actor. Originally a stage actor, Kilmer became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appearances in comedy films, starting with Top Secret! , then the cult classic Real Genius , as well as blockbuster action films, including a supporting role in Top Gun and a...	MacPherson
Gary Cole Gary Cole Gary Michael Cole is an American actor. Cole is known for his supporting roles in numerous film and television productions since the 1990s.-Early life:...	Rhodes
Jennifer Esposito Jennifer Esposito Jennifer Esposito is an American actress, dancer and model, known for her appearances in films such as I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Summer of Sam and Crash and in television series such as Spin City, The Looney Tunes Show and Samantha Who?.-Early life:Esposito, an Italian-American, was...	Joanna
Jay Jablonski	Deputy Foster
Greg Serano Greg Serano Greg Serano is an American actor. He was most known for his role of Pablo Betart on Wildfire.-Filmography:*Undocumented *Felon .... Officer Diaz*Beer For My Horses .... Tito Garza...	Miguel Silva
Stacy Marie Warden	Carly
Christopher Gehrman	E. B.
Bob Rumnock	Sheriff Bock

Reception

The movie received overwhelmingly negative reviews. Richard Roeper

Richard Roeper

Richard E. Roeper is an American columnist and film critic for The Chicago Sun-Times and now a co-host on The Roe Conn Show on WLS-AM...

wrote, "It's beyond dreadful. It's jaw-droppingly bad."

External links

• Official website