<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $18.2 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $5,212,903 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Tall Man is a 2012 Canadian and French mystery - horror film written and directed by Pascal Laugier . It was filmed in the Kootenay region of Southeastern British Columbia and stars Jessica Biel . The film is set in a small former mining town where poverty is rife and children are disappearing on a regular basis . The abductions are blamed on a local legend called "the Tall Man ." Jessica Biel plays a widowed nurse whose child is abducted, leading her on a desperate chase to recover him . </P> <P> Julia lives in a small town in Washington called Cold Rock . She is the town's local nurse, widowed by her husband, who was the town's doctor . Cold Rock was formerly a prosperous mining town, but has become poverty - stricken . There is little work, the school has been closed and the town is virtually vanished from the map . During her day, Julia visits several families . Jenny and Carol live with their mother and her violent, alcoholic boyfriend, who has impregnated Carol . Despite this, their mother did not kick him out, drawing Julia's ire . Instead, she sends away Carol and her baby, whom Julia helped to deliver . Because of her rough life, Jenny is selectively mute, communicating through a journal she carries . She also sketches things she's seen, including "the tall man". This is a local legend or urban myth surrounding a being who abducts local children who are never seen again . </P>

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