October 22 is a 1998 film

1998 in film

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 directed by Richard Schenkman

Richard Schenkman

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 and written by Fred Golan. It premiered at the Ft. Lauderdale Film Festival.

Plot

A group of disparate patrons in a Los Angeles

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 diner are having breakfast when a psychopath enters with a gun, holds them hostage and has a standoff with the SWAT Team

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The film then cuts to earlier that same day, showing how each character came to be in the diner. The narrative

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 progresses non-sequentially, but working towards the moment when the gunman opens fire. Each character is shown going about their daily lives, individually revealing themes of romance, obsession and desperation.

The film climaxes back in the diner, and features a surprise twist ending.

Principal cast

Actor	Role
Amanda Plummer	Denise
Colm Meaney Colm Meaney Colm J. Meaney is an Irish actor widely known for playing Miles O'Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He is second only to Michael Dorn in most appearances in Star Trek episodes. He has guest-starred on many TV shows from Law & Order to The Simpsons...	Steve
Paul Perri Paul Perri Paul John Perri is an American-born Canadian-American film and television actor. Perri is best known for portraying Edwards and Skinless Parker in Hellraiser: Bloodline, Harry Hume from Chaos, and as Dr. Sidney Bloom from Manhunter.-Background:Perri and his wife, Michele Miner are the parents of...	Police Captain
Michael Paré Michael Paré - Early life :Paré was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Joan, a homemaker, and Francis Paré, who owned print shops. He had six sisters and three brothers. Paré's father was of French-Canadian ancestry and his mother of Irish ancestry....	Gary
Ivana Milicevic Ivana Milicevic -Early life:Miličević was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina to a Croatian family, the daughter of Tonka, a homemaker, and Damir Miličević, a slaughterhouse worker and entrepreneur. She emigrated to the United States at the age of five and was raised in Michigan...	Debra
Mark Boone Junior Mark Boone Junior Mark Boone Junior is an American actor perhaps best known for his roles as Bobby Munson in FX's Sons of Anarchy and in two films by Christopher Nolan, Memento and Batman Begins...	Bob
Donna Murphy Donna Murphy Donna Murphy is an American stage, film, television actress and singer.Murphy has won two Tony Awards for Best Actress in a Musical for her roles in Passion as Fosca and in The King and I as Anna Leonowens...	Carol
Ernie Hudson Ernie Hudson Ernest Lee "Ernie" Hudson is an American actor known for his roles as Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters film series, Sergeant Albrecht in The Crow, and Warden Leo Glynn on HBO's Oz.-Early life:...	Arthur
Tate Donovan Tate Donovan Tate Buckley Donovan is an American actor. He is known for his role in the FX drama Damages, as Tom Shayes, and for his role as Jimmy Cooper in the American teen drama television series The O.C....	Peter