Scott Storm Directs New Noir Thriller Ten 'til Noon:

Time is of the essence in this noir crime thriller. For his second film as director, Scott Storm works from a script by Paul Osborne that is nothing if not a stimulating and adventurous twist on story construction. With vignettes occurring in the same narrow window of time, a scenario of murder conspiracy emerges with sizzling impact. Its varying perspectives and different players unfold a whodunit minutes before it's done: an intricately planned murder, a network of criminals: a lethal con game revealed in episodes occurring in the same ten minutes in this lethal day.

In the first segment, Larry (Rick Wasserman), the young owner and CEO of a high-tech software company, and a knock-out home out of Mansions Magazine, awakens to a male voice telling him, "it's time to get up, Larry." As Larry stirs to consciousness 10 minutes before noon, ahead of the time his alarm clock is set to go off, the voice asks, "Why do you sleep so late?"

Larry's belief that he's in a dream is shockingly dispelled when he turns to find two strangers peering at him in bed. Sitting in the middle of the bedroom is Mr. Jay (Alfonso Freeman: son of Morgan), a talkative hitman, whose bizarre declarations about momentous changes in Larry's life within the next 8 minutes (2 have elapsed), like his death, freezes Larry in fear. And, oh yes, Mr. Jay also conveys the news that Larry's beloved wife Becky (Rayne Guest) is, as he speaks, in bed with another man. All of Larry's assumptions about his life suddenly take a spin.

Off to Mr. Jay's side stands Ms. Milch (Jenya Lano), a svelte non-talker in a tight grey suit. After Mr. Jay announces Ms. Milch's need to tend to some matters of preparation, and that they'll get on with the business at hand when she returns, she leaves the room. The digital clock numbers tick time away. Larry tries to grasp who could be behind this bizarre nightmare.