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To terminate with no exit or possibility of advancement: The road dead-ends at the lake. That job dead-ends at the end of the year.
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| Directed by | Jean-Baptiste Andrea Fabrice Canepa |
| Produced by | James Huth |
| Written by | Jean-Baptiste Andrea Fabrice Canepa |
| Starring | Ray Wise Mick Cain Alexandra Holden |
| Distributed by | Lions Gate Films |
| Release date(s) | 12 December 2003 (UK) |
| Running time | 85 min. |
| Country | France |
| Language | English |
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Dead End is a 2003 horror film directed by Jean-Baptiste Andrea and Fabrice Canepa. Though there are references to current popular culture, the feel of the movie is that of the 70's.
On Christmas Eve, Frank Harrington (Ray Wise) is driving with his family, composed of his wife Laura (Lin Shaye), his son Richard (Mick Cain) and his daughter Marion (Alexandra Holden) and her boyfriend Brad (Billy Asher), to have Christmas dinner at the home of Frank's mother-in-law. Frank decides to drive through an unknown shortcut using a secondary road, where horrific events follow his family.
They encounter a mysterious woman in white (Amber Smith) wandering through the forest with her baby, leaving death in her wake. Also, a terrifying black car - its driver invisible - carries the victims into the heart of the night. Moreover, every road sign points to a destination they never reach. The sign reads "Marcott", and the dad presumes this is a naval base, and that is why it is on this road and not on the map.
The family succumbs to panic and madness, and deeply buried secrets come to the surface. For them, Christmas has turned into a living hell, and most of the Harrington family dies in the process. Each time a family member dies they are found in the backseat of a black vehicle which appears in a distance and eventually passes the family and drives into the distance regardless of how hard they try to stop it, it seems invincible, and only stops to drop the dead victim from the car.
The ending is unclear, as the last survivor, Marion, awakes in hospital and a doctor with the surname "Marcott" is there. It is later revealed that there is a man with the same black car that carried everyone off into the night, who says he's the one who found Marion and called it in. When Marcott's car fails to start, he asks her, 'Do you want a lift?' and Marcott replies 'Sure. Nice car.'. after which, the man says 'Thanks, I'm a collector'.
The credits then roll and then there is a cutscene, involving two roadsweepers cleaning up after the supposedly violent car crash and one picks up a note previously written by the dad, and this wipes out the possibility that it was all a dream.
At first the movie seems to be straightforward: the father falls asleep and hits the oncoming vehicle with a woman, man, and child. However once the ending comes and the note is found amongst the wreckage, the viewer is left to determine for themselves exactly what happened.
Some evidence suggests that the whole movie may depict a state of Purgatory in which the family are being punished for their wrong doings, i.e. Frank falling asleep at the wheel and killing the mother and child in the other car. The reason that the form of their executioner is the woman in the white dress. This explains why Marion is the only survivor as she never died in the car crash. Another theory is that the family was murdered, and their bodies planted to look like they had died in a car accident. The woman in white would have killed Marion, but spared her, probably because she was pregnant.
The man in black dress says he is "the collector," i.e. he is death or the carrier of souls from living to dead land. That's why all those who died were screaming from the back seat of that black car: the screaming figures were the departed's souls being carried to their destination. The one responsible for their deaths was the woman in white whom they had run over, exacting her revenge on all but Marion, who was pregnant. The woman in white was taken last because she was waiting for her revenge to complete. And finally all of them ended up under the care of Dr. Marcott, explaining the appearance of that name on the road signs as their destination.
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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - blindgyde, udsigtsløs
v. intr. - afslutte uden slutning/løsning
Nederlands (Dutch)
doodlopend(e straat), uitzichtloos
Français (French)
adj. - sans avenir (un emploi)
v. intr. - arriver à une impasse
Deutsch (German)
adj. - aussichtslos, ohne Perspektive, (Soziol.) marginal
v. - (Elek.) totlegen, aufhören (Straße)
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αδιέξοδο
adj. - αδιέξοδος
Italiano (Italian)
vicolo cieco, senza uscita
Português (Portuguese)
n. - beco (m) sem saída
adj. - fechado
Русский (Russian)
тупик, бесперспективный
Español (Spanish)
adj. - sin salida, barriobajero, algo sin futuro, callejón sin salida
v. intr. - vivir en los barrios bajos, acabar en un punto ciego
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - återvändsgränd
adj. - framgångslöst
中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
尽头的, 顽固的, 辣手的, 到达尽头
中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 盡頭的, 頑固的, 辣手的
v. intr. - 到達盡頭
한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 막힌, 희망이 없는, 빈민 생활의
v. intr. - 막다르게 되다
日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 行き止まりの, 行き詰まった
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) طريق غير نافذ (صفه) يفتقر الى فرص للتقدم, غير نافذ, مسدود
עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ללא מוצא, אינו מאפשר שום הזדמנות להתקדם, קשוח ופראי
v. intr. - הגיע למבוי סתום ללא אפשרות להתקדם
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