Absolute Deception

{{Infobox film

| name = Absolute Deception

| image = Absolutedeceptionposter.jpg

| caption = Film poster

| director = Brian Trenchard-Smith

| producer = Dale Bradley
Kirk Shaw
Grant Bradley
Brian Trenchard-Smith

| screenplay = Kraig Wenman

| story = Jeffrey Schenck
Peter Sullivan

| starring = Cuba Gooding Jr.
Emmanuelle Vaugier

| music = Michael Richard Plowman

| cinematography = Dan Macarthur

| editing = Asim Nuraney

| studio = Odyssey Media
Voltage Pictures

| distributor = Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

| released = {{Film date|2013|07|17}}

| runtime = 92 minutes

| country = Australia
Canada
United States

| language = English

| budget = $2 million[http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/cuba_gooding_jr_heading_to_australia_to_shoot_deception_w_one_of_tarantinos Tambay Obenson, "Cuba Gooding Jr Heading To Australia To Shoot "Deception" w/ One Of Tarantino's Favorite Directors", Indiewire, 29 June 2011] accessed 8 February 2013

| gross =

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Absolute Deception (also known as Deception) is a 2013 Australian/Canadian international co-production action-thriller film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith and starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Emmanuelle Vaugier.[http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2012/07/05/429311_gossip-news.html Katrina Jones, "Cuba Gooding Jr shoots scenes on Coast", Gold Coast Bulletin, 5 July 2012] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120909144237/http://www.goldcoast.com.au/article/2012/07/05/429311_gossip-news.html |date=9 September 2012 }} accessed 8 February 2013[https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118054203/ Diana Lodderhouse, "Voltage nabs sales rights to Deception", Variety, 17 March 2012] accessed 8 February 2013 The film was released on direct-to-DVD in the United States on June 11, 2013.

Premise

When a widowed reporter is informed by an FBI agent that her deceased husband has just been murdered, the two join forces to uncover a web of deceit that is shocking and more deadly than anyone could imagine.

Cast

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Cuba Gooding Jr. as John Nelson
Emmanuelle Vaugier as Rebecca Scott
Evert McQueen as Inspector Hendricks
Ty Hungerford as Archer
Jeff Gannon as D.A. Cochran
Brad McMurray as Thug #1
Kelly Atkinson as Brigid Archer
Sean Edward Frazer as Police Officer #1
Troy MacKinder as Associate
Raymond Massey as Coroner
Rachel Morgan-McMurray as New Yorker
Gulliver Page as Thug #2
Candice Storey as Constable Jill Davis
Sam White as Police Officer #2
Togo Singano as Kelvin
Brian Trenchard-Smith as Police Commissioner

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Production

The film was shot in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia in 15 days with actors plus two days of shooting a car chase.[http://www.ithaca.com/arts_and_entertainment/article_9ef34ff8-2f44-11e2-b924-001a4bcf887a.html Bryan Van Campen, "Interview with Filmmaker Brian Trenchard-Smith", Ithaca.com, 14 November 2012] accessed 8 February 2013 Brian Trenchard-Smith has a cameo in the film as a Police Commissioner.