I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

best movie i've ever seen.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Terry Bernard (Josh Lucas) is in love with his daughter's doctor Elizabeth Clemson (Lena Headey). He had a heart transplant. He has visions from his pounding heart. He recognizes the paramedic attacking him in the vision and tries to confront him. A fight ensues and Terry accidentally kills him. He discovers the identity of the heart donor and contacts police detective Phillip Van Doren (Brian Cox) who investigated the case. He uncovers a dark conspiracy and a secret pointed right at his heart.This is suppose to be a reworking of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart". I didn't really get the reference the first time I watched it. There's a reason for that. Terry is not guilty of anything. That's the whole point of the Poe story but I guess the writer missed that. The hearts of the two stories are completely different.I love all three main actors but the story lacks intensity. The mystery of the story is never really in doubt. It's simply about the identity of the villains. It would have worked a lot better if Terry paid for the heart.

This one feels disconnected and rambling at times and at other times it is a rather effective Horror Movie with enough interest to keep things pumping along. The exposition is the trouble in this sometimes disturbing display that could have been cooked up by an early David Cronenberg.Things are a bit unclear at times and some more clarity and explanations are called for as the separation between the Audience and the Film oscillates drawing one with a caring for the Characters but motivations and situations are frustratingly vague.The transplanted Heart beneath the chest-boards of the Protagonist is the Paranormal tie to Poe, but that is inconsequential here and only matters in an off-handed Title and that's where it stays, unless you count the thump-thump-thump-thump. By itself, this is grizzly enough for Gore-Hounds and the Physical Maladies of the Father-Daughter are both empathetic and unsettling.Worth a View for Fans of the Horrific and the Creepy, but those looking for tight Crime elements and want more definition to the proceedings may be disappointed.

Bearing only the most tenacious of links to the Poe story, Josh Lucas is convincing enough, nonetheless, as Terry, ,a single dad who has a desperate need to find out where his new heart has come from. A quest that leads him further down the rabbit hole of murder. Brian Cox is, as always, a joy to watch. And although the ending is foreseeable, There're just enough twists and turns along the way to keep my interest piqued and, unlike many films I've seen in the past, after the movie was over I didn't feel like I wasted my time.My Grade: B-Where I saw it: Show time Beyond

***SPOILERS*** Updated version of Edger Allen Poe's 1843 horror classic the "Tell Tale Heart" the film "Tell-Tale" takes place in modern Providence Road Island involving heart transplant recipient Terry Bernard,Josh Lucas. Since his heart transplant Terry has been having nightmares of him being brutally murdered by a gang of home invaders together with his wife.It's when Terry is getting a checkup at the Providence Hospital where his heart transplant operation was preformed that he spies on his medical records telling him that the person who's heart was donated to him was murder victim Jean P. Viellard! It just so happens that the EMS worker who was at the scene of Viellard's murder was Kevin Stanovich, Jamie Harrold, who works in the very hospital where Terry got his heart transplant! Terry becomes so obsessed in finding out about the person who's heart is keeping him alive that he gets in touch with the detective in charge of the investigation of the Viellard murder Phil Van Doren, Brian Cox, whom as it later turns out knows a lot more about the case then his report on it indicates!In the film we also have Terry's seven year old daughter and the apple of his eye Angela, Beatrice Miller, who's suffering from an incurable bone disease who in all likeliness will not survive adulthood. There's also Terry's live-in girlfriend Elizabert Clemson, Lena Headly, a doctor at the Providence hospital where he was operated on. It's the sweet loving and caring Elizabeth who's been giving Terry the very vital emotional support that he needs to get over his obsession over who's heart, that's keeping him alive, it is that's pumping inside him.***SPOILERS*** As we and Terry soon find out the circumstances that lead to his heart transplant were not quite as simple as he at first imagined! He in fact got his heart through an underground criminal organ donation racket that originated right inside the hospital where he was a patient in! It was then that the mild mannered and wimp like Terry subconsciously tracked down those who murdered his heart donor and his wife and exacted brutal justice on them!***MAJOR SPOILER*** The biggest shock off all for Terry was saved for the end of the movie: In just who was unknowingly responsible for the Vieillard murders and the very sinister and selfish, as well as monetary, reasons behind them!P.S To show you just how incredibly tense and disturbing the film "Tell-Tale" really is at it's premier showing at the Tribica Cinima in New York City on April 24, 2009 a person watching the movie almost dropped dead from from sheer fright, he was later revived by members of a local hospital EMS unit, some 15 minutes before the movie Tell-Tale ended. This had the showing,together with the films surprise ending, postponed for some 90 minutes until the man, with the help of the EMS personnel, was able to regain consciousness!