![]() ![]() Most boys don’t even have one.” The girl’s underlying sadness comes from a combination of an absent father, ruinous town gossip, and an abusive ex-boyfriend named Clay ( Richard Harmon ). More proof of Tracy’s pathos is in her response to learning Rufus has a dislocated heart: “Don’t worry. He has no interest in taking advantage of others. However, Tracy’s kinky version of a trust fall leaves her bewildered Rufus, unlike the other men in her life, shows he can actually be trusted. The teenager lives up to her embellished reputation by immediately getting the new boy out of his clothes. The first person in Conrad to discover the truth about Rufus is the Wades’ neighbor, Tracy ( Merritt Patterson ). The film’s namesake might resemble a fresh-faced 15-year-old, but an old soul hides beneath his youthful exterior. Meanwhile, Jennifer is reluctant to let Rufus in, seeing as she still holds on to her grief because it is all she has left of her biological son. Hugh enjoys the idea of having another child in the house, even one who is only passing through. The room Rufus sleeps in, the clothes he wears, the toy planes he finds in the closet - these all once belonged to the Wades’ son. Rufus inadvertently fills a void in the Wades’ home. Be it a new son for a bereaved couple, or the boyfriend least likely to break your heart, Rufus takes on multiple roles without his realizing it. Like the naked mannequins in the town’s store windows, Rufus is a blank canvas, all ready to be dressed up. This leads to him becoming an emotional cure-all for everyone he meets. Upon landing in the town of Conrad - the Canadian Prairies are passed off for what looks to be Montana - Rufus does everything he believes necessary to fit in. Wife Jennifer ( Kelly Rowan ) is naturally wary of this sudden guest, but she comes around to the mysterious and soft-spoken Rufus ( Rory J. ![]() This is mere seconds after the weary 107-year-old woman told her ward to “try to fit in.” Soon the area’s chief of police, Hugh Wade ( David James Elliott ), takes in the victim’s traveling companion until they can find a permanent housing solution. The boy’s guardian ( Christina Jastrzembska ) then surprises both him and a trucker when she intentionally steps in front of a moving semi. The ashen landscape in the middle of an unseasonable winter shows faint signs of life as the title character arrives on a bus. Rufus was shot over a span of 22 days in Dundurn, Saskatchewan, and it was Schultz’s second project filmed in the boreal province. For those reasons this coming-of-age tale has a good deal more to say about humanity than it does the mythology of vampires. The 2012 film diverges from its contemporaries, though, by dispensing with the usual fantastical action and plotting and instead embracing character study. More specifically, the brooding and beautiful bloodsucker who takes a fierce liking to a human, and the uncanny perils of their two different worlds colliding. Given other vampire-centered stories at the time, the Canadian filmmaker was sure to include the fundamentals. Dave Schultz set out to make “a vampire picture that wasn’t really a vampire picture” when he wrote Rufus (also known as Hunted ).
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