Eight liars, one teacher, and two people who went on to have the careers

Julian Morris Before and After Cry Wolf

Morris's film debut in Cry Wolf placed him alongside a cast of rising names; this piece follows his subsequent screen career through the productions that confirmed him as a working leading actor, factually and chronologically.

Lindy Booth, and What the Film Asked of Her

Booth carries the film's central dramatic question — whether her character is reliable — and this piece reads her performance against the script's demands, then sets her subsequent career against the role she took here.

Padalecki in the Year Before Supernatural

Cry Wolf was shot in 2004, the year Jared Padalecki was cast in Supernatural — this piece places the two projects in sequence, noting what the film's horror conventions share with the television role that absorbed the next fifteen years of his career.

Jon Bon Jovi, Teacher

Bon Jovi's casting as the journalism teacher is the film's most unusual credit — this piece surveys his screen career before and after Cry Wolf, and asks what a rock musician with genuine acting ambitions brought to a role that required institutional authority.