Hiding

Casts : Julian Black, Dean Armstrong, Ana Villafañe

The story here finds a young NYC girl named Jo (singer Ana Villafañe, in her first lead performance) who is forced to relocate to Montana after seeing a brutal crime that has resulted in her parents being murdered a heinous act that occurred long before the movie started, and which we are, sadly, not privy to. Finding herself within the confines of a new country school as opposed to an educational facility in the Big Apple, Jo quickly comes under fire from the Mean Girls squad (who are accompanied by the swindling Hotei music and who are shown in slo-mo to boot) as well as gaining the attention of two very different boys: a hick and an artist..But that’s all extraneous to the plot of Hiding as there isn’t one. While Jo sets about coping with living under a new identity, she is tracked down by a ruthless hitman (Dean Armstrong, Queer as Folk) determined to make sure whatever State’s evidence she has (again, we’re really not told much about all of that) goes to the grave with her. Jeremy Sumpter, Tyler Blackburn, Dan Payne, and several other television/b-movie actors and actresses also star in this uninteresting drama. Anchor Bay brings this dud to Blu-ray in a decent transfer with several (equally arid) behind-the-scenes featurettes and a music video.