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Tape is a 2001 drama film directed by Richard Linklater and written by Stephen Belber, based on his play of the same name. It stars Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard, and Uma Thurman. The entire film takes place in real-time.
The entire film is set inside a Lansing, Michigan motel room. Vince (Hawke), a drug dealer/volunteer firefighter from Oakland, rents the room in his hometown to support his old high school friend’s entry into the East Lansing Film Festival.
His friend, documentary filmmaker Jon Salter (Leonard), joins Vince in his motel room and the two reminisce about their high school years. They get on the subject of Amy (Thurman), Vince’s former girlfriend. It appears that, while they dated for some time, Vince and Amy never had sex. However, after or at the point when their relationship had ended, Amy slept with Jon.
Vince claims Amy had told him that Jon had raped her. Vince becomes obsessed with, and eventually succeeds in getting a verbal confession from Jon about, the…