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"When you're searching for a killer... the last suspect you want to see is your son."
- Director: Michael Caton-Jones
- Genre: Mystery & Suspense, Drama,
- Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
- Subtitled | Widescreen | Duration: 105 Mins
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Overview:
The director and star of This Boy's Life - Michael Caton-Jones and Robert De Niro, respectively - reunited for this performance-driven action drama. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mike McAlary's 1997 article for Esquire magazine, the movie is a poignant and powerful reflection on human weakness and the potential agonies of emotional attachment. De Niro plays Vincent LaMarca, a respected New York City homicide detective who is torn between familial and professional notions of duty when a drug dealer's murder is attributed to his estranged son, Joey (James Franco). Swapping his characteristic swagger for a shuffling, tortured vulnerability, De Niro delivers a fine, heart-rending performance. As his screen offspring's life disintegrates, so does he, becoming as weather-beaten and gloomy as the film's bleak locations. Though it is unquestionably De Niro's show, he benefits from some weighty support. Franco plays the resentful time bomb of a son to perfection, while Frances McDormand, as Vincent's intimacy-hungry girlfriend, adds a welcome feminine slant to the proceedings.
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