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The Twilight Zone
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Chosen

  • Episode aired Nov 6, 2002
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6.9/10
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Jake Busey in The Twilight Zone (2002)
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A down on his luck man continually rebuffs two strange missionaries who appear at his door offering to save him.A down on his luck man continually rebuffs two strange missionaries who appear at his door offering to save him.A down on his luck man continually rebuffs two strange missionaries who appear at his door offering to save him.

  • Director
    • Winrich Kolbe
  • Writers
    • Rod Serling
    • Ira Steven Behr
  • Stars
    • Forest Whitaker
    • Jake Busey
    • Nicholas Turturro
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.9/10
    363
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    • Director
      • Winrich Kolbe
    • Writers
      • Rod Serling
      • Ira Steven Behr
    • Stars
      • Forest Whitaker
      • Jake Busey
      • Nicholas Turturro
    • 5User reviews
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    Forest Whitaker
    Forest Whitaker
    • Self - Host
    Jake Busey
    Jake Busey
    • Vince Hansen
    Nicholas Turturro
    Nicholas Turturro
    • Speed
    • (as Nick Turturro)
    Brad Sihvon
    • Doyle Lipton
    Ken Tremblett
    Ken Tremblett
    • Pitch Man
    Mi-Jung Lee
    • Newscaster
    Claudette Mink
    Claudette Mink
    • Lea
    Kim Hawthorne
    Kim Hawthorne
    • Muriel
    Andrew Moxham
    Andrew Moxham
    • Michael
    Patrick Keating
    Patrick Keating
    • Doomsayer
    • (uncredited)
    Michael Kopsa
    Michael Kopsa
    • Agent Richard Schultz
    • (uncredited)
    Ty Olsson
    Ty Olsson
    • Gordo
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Winrich Kolbe
    • Writers
      • Rod Serling
      • Ira Steven Behr
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    8planktonrules

    Don't be so quick to slam the door on those folks...they might not be who you think they are.

    When the episode begins, two folks arrive at Steve's front door and they seem like missionaries from some cult. Steve tells them to get lost...and they do, though they leave a DVD with him on their way. It turns out that Steve's neighbor also had a visit...and they left him a videotape. The fact that they say he's a 'chosen one' sounds very ominous...and Steve and this friend are worried about these odd people. Of course, since it's "The Twilight Zone" you know that something weird is in store for them.

    There are lots of clues as to the finale...perhaps one or two too many. But it IS creative and weird...and well worth seeing. A most unique episode...and I have no idea why the other two posted reviews are so negative towards it.
    5kapelusznik18

    Chosen for what?

    ****SPOILERS**** Deep in debt and total wreck of a human being bottom feeder, for scraps thrown away in the garbage, Vince Hansen, Jack Busey, despite having a roof over his head, obviously left to him by his parents, has hit rock bottom in his both love and financial lives. It's just then when he's about to do himself in these two strangers Michael & Muriel, Andy Moxham & Kim Hawthorne, show up at his door with a both DVD and message about him being "Chosen" for what they don't tell him. Feeling all this is some kind of joke Vince kicks them both out of his place only to later see them cursing the neighborhood looking for new customers or victims.

    It's when Vince's good friend the crippled biker Speed, Nick Turturro, is seen with the pair and invited them into his house, that lit up like a Christmas tree, that he starts to feel something strange is going on. This soon has a number of people in town disappear from sight with the only connection to each other is they were visited by this strange pair, Michael & Muriel, of kooks! With the FBI headed by Special Agent Schultz, Michael Popsa, looking deep into the case of the disappearing townspeople Vince is told to shut up and keep quite about what he knows in the name of national security.

    ****SPOILERS**** It's later that the truth comes out to this "Chosen" bit that Vince is experiencing and it has to do not only with him & Speed but his girlfriend Lea, Claudette Mink, who broke up with him and now, after being "Chosen", is back and just nuts about Vince! As we and Vince find out is that he missed the bus and now has to face the consequences. The consequences that those "Chosen" who unlike himself, who went along with the deal, were saved from suffering.
    3Hitchcoc

    Tiresome Pointless Offering

    I don't know if this is some sort of left behind thing. Is our boy supposed to repent. Knowing he is an utter jerk except for his disabled friend's needs. But the missionaries keep coming, handing out DVD's. I think this is one of those efforts by some group to use a TV show to proselytize. Anyway, he chooses to be the incredible crud all through the show. The scene as he runs around with his gun is awful.

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      Unusually, the opening narration includes the words "the Twilight Zone" in the middle rather than towards the end.
    • Quotes

      Forest Whitaker - Host: [opening narration] Now that's a sales pitch Vince Hansen doesn't hear every day. But what exactly did they mean by "chosen?" In the Twilight Zone, Vince is about to find out the answer, whether he wants to or not.

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    • Release date
      • November 6, 2002 (Canada)
    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    • Production companies
      • New Line Television
      • Spirit Dance Entertainment
      • Trilogy Entertainment Group
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      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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