Sam Worthington, Lily Rabe wrapping up Netflix feature in city this week

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As an actor, Sam Worthington has explored hostile alien terrain in Avatar and Hades in Clash of the Titans.

Currently in Winnipeg, Worthington is taking on what may be the most daunting plunge yet: medical bureaucracy.

Worthington is shooting the Netflix thriller Fracture for director Brad Anderson until Friday. In the film, the Australia-raised Worthington plays a husband and father who attempts to get his injured young daughter admitted to a small-town hospital after a Thanksgiving weekend mishap. But after he wakes up in the hospital waiting room, both his wife (played by Lily Rabe) and daughter have vanished without a trace.

Executive producer Ian Dimerman of Inferno Films, one of the production companies behind the film, says Fracture is a thriller, despite director Anderson’s esteemed reputation in the horror genre. Anderson directed the well-regarded 2001 haunted asylum movie Session 9 and the pitch-dark Christian Bale drama-thriller The Machinist (2004). Anderson was also one of the contributing filmmakers to the 2006 cable series Masters of Horror.

“Brad Anderson is an amazing director,” Dimerman says. “He came here having never worked in Winnipeg and he was so blown away with the talent pool here that most of the cast, outside of the top five, are all Manitobans. It’s pretty impressive.”

Manitoba actors working on the film include Lauren Cochrane, Erik Athavale, Ernesto Griffith and Chris Sigurdson.

Rabe, who recently played Liz Cheney in the movie Vice, is the daughter of actress Jill Clayburgh and playwright David Rabe. The movie also stars busy character actor Stephen Tobolowsky, who may still be best known as Ned Ryerson, the salesman who perpetually tries to sell life insurance to Bill Murray in Groundhog Day.

The film wraps this week shooting in a Winnipeg studio, but has already shot in a number of Manitoba locations, including Selkirk and Matlock.

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