Show Me (film)

Show Me is a 2004 Canadian psychological thriller written and directed by Cassandra Nicolaou and starring Michelle Nolden, Kett Turton and Katharine Isabelle.

After Sarah (Michelle Nolden) shouts at Jenna (Katharine Isabelle) and Jackson (Kett Turton) when they attempt to wash her windshield, she feels bad and offers them some cash.

The two teenagers force Sarah to bring them to her newly purchased cabin in a remote part of the wilderness where they begin to tie her up and toy with her.

Jackson and Jenna panic and run into the woods, where they hatch a plan to murder Sarah before leaving, as she is the only witness to the killing.

Jackson, feeling betrayed, runs to the lake beside the cabin, and swims far out as Jenna and Sarah watch and scream his name.

[3] Leah McLaren of The Globe and Mail panned the film, writing that "Perhaps the most off-putting aspect of this picture is the way it portrays the street kids as heartless sociopaths (they stab and kidnap people for fun, and laugh when their captive wets herself), and subsequently tries to arm-twist us into some form of sympathy for their 'unfortunate situation'.

As the story limps toward its painfully obvious moral conclusion (they must lay down their differences and come to understand each other in a yucky campfire make-out scene), the implausibilities pile up in inverse proportion to the film's lagging dramatic tension.