A Patient Man (film)

Tom Alexander works for a consulting firm in Los Angeles. He was injured and his wife killed in a car accident caused by another driver running a red light; he now wears a knee brace, commutes on his bicycle and via light rail instead of in a car, and is seeing a therapist. He is troubled by flashbacks; on the train, he meets Aaron, who tells him his driving license has been restricted, and Tom patiently finds out more and then plots his revenge.[2][3][4]

• Jonathan Mangum as Tom Alexander
• Tate Ellington as Aaron Clarke
• Kelsey Scott as Tom's therapist
• Amir Talai as Rami, Tom's co-worker
• Catherine Von Till as Rachel

A Patient Man was Ward's first feature film; he also wrote the script,[2] and described it as Hitchcockian in inspiration.[4]

The film was shown at the 2019 Austin Film Festival[5] and released on video on demand on February 7, 2020.[3]

Some reviewers described A Patient Man as "interesting and twisted"[4] and praised Ward's direction for "an amazing job of hiding the clues to the mystery while showing a very real depiction of how a person can descend into revenge because of their grief", and Mangum's[5] and Ellington's[4] performances. Others criticized the film for "telegraph[ing] the plot even while spinning it"[3] and Mangum's performance as "so deadpan as to be sleep inducing",[2]

• A Patient Man at Rotten Tomatoes
• A Patient Man at IMDb