The Night Listener: Synopsis

"The facts can always be altered when you're telling a story, but this time, I have to be careful. I'll lay out the events exactly as I remember them. I want you to believe this, after all, and that will be hard enough as it is."
-- Gabriel Noone

A haunting, suspense-filled mystery about truth, lies and storytelling, THE NIGHT LISTENER follows the disturbingly eerie twists and turns that unfold in the relationship between a popular late-night radio host and a devoted young fan who claims to have survived a terrifying, secret past. Robin Williams stars as Gabriel Noone, a colorful public radio storyteller who, in the throes of his own emotional crisis, begins talking on the phone with a precocious, 14 year-old listener named Pete (Rory Culkin), a boy with his own incredible story to tell about a nightmare childhood. Still reeling from a devastating breakup with his lover of ten years (Bobby Cannavale), Gabriel finds unexpected comfort in his long-distance conversations with Pete and begins to support him in the publishing of his memoirs. But as Gabriel draws closer to Pete and his adopted mother (Toni Collette), becoming a kind of surrogate father, he also grows more and more filled with doubts about the boy's tales and macabre suspicions over who he really is - sparking a desperate, quest to uncover the elusive truth.

Based on the acclaimed, page-turner novel by Armistead Maupin, THE NIGHT LISTENER delves into the vertiginous realms where identity, illusion and obsession collide. Starring Robin Williams, Toni Collette, Bobby Cannavale, Joe Morton, Rory Culkin and Sandra Oh, the film is directed by Patrick Stettner, who made an auspicious debut with the revenge thriller and Sundance Film Festival hit THE BUSINESS OF STRANGERS.