I would score this a 5.5/10 and recommend watching once if nothing better is available. This is a film with a lot of potential due to the great cast and premise but is executed poorly. The ending is just okay and also could have been better. There's too much focus on Odom's character looking lost and confused and not enough on the La Jolla friendship, the various back stories, and characters are used in an in-and-out fashion rather than a good mix of using them all together to understand the relationships, inner demons and why things are how they are. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading People Who Disappear. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. The characters are good and the circumstances are clever unfortunately the overall execution is bad. People Who Disappear - Kindle edition by Leslie, Alex. The movie has great dialogue and a unique premise. This picture has a fantastic cast that is unfortunately under utilized. (One Night in Miami), Orlando Bloom (Lord of the Rings), Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire), Cynthia Erivo (Harriet) and Ulka Simone Mohanty (Soul). This movie is directed by John Ridley (Cold Around the Heart) and stars Leslie Odom Jr. The rich friend is perceived to be trying to change the past to get his ex-wife back while the married friend is obsessed with the notion whether true or not which may be causing his marriage to fall apart.

Two men who used to be friends aren't so much any more after one of the friends marries the other's ex-wife. Unfortunately sometimes they change the future, on purpose or by accident. Excerpt from the opening story of my collection People Who Disappear can be read on my publisher Freehand’s website here. This story is in We All Need to Eat and was published in The Journey Prize anthology. The storyline follows a futuristic society where rich people can pay to go back in time and relive, see and experience other eras. Short story The Person You Want to See can be read on The Rusty Toque here. Needle in a Timestack (2021) is a movie my wife and I recently watched on Amazon Prime.

People Who Disappear by Alex Leslie