Director: Don Wrye
Genre: Thriller/
Drama
Runtime: 97
minutes
Year:
1995
Starring: Faye Dunaway, Stephen Collins, Cameron Bancroft, Judson Mills, Aidan
Pendleton
Description: A
respectable middle class family lives begin to fall apart when the parents come
to suspect that son Chad may have been involved in a gang-rape.
I WATCHED THIS MOVIE FOR MY 2025 MOVIE CHALLENGE.
WEEK 20: A FILM WITH FAYE DUNAWAY
Review: Karen and Roger live a happy life with their two children, Chad and
Melissa. When Karen is watching the news, she learns about a missing girl. They
quickly find out that Chad might have been involved in a gang-rape, and that this
girl is now missing.
What would you do to protect
your child? That’s the moral of the story. It’s pretty clear Chad was involved,
just as his sorority friend. You would think that Roger, a lawyer, would make
Chad want to do the right thing and turn himself in. But Roger wants to cover
it up and protect Chad, no matter what. Karen is the one that feels this is
wrong. She becomes estranged from her husband and feels she has failed as a
mother, realizing what her son has done.
It's fine, the story is
interesting, how each character deals with this horrible situation. Aside from
Faye Dunaway, the acting is pretty bad though. And although the story is
focused on this family, I would also want to know what would happen to the
other guys that were involved. Especially Carter, who seemed to be the
initiator of this cruel act. He seems to have no remorse and I wanted to see
him get justice. We never learn what happens to any of them and we never see
the victim’s side of the story either.
I know that the director wanted
to do, focus on what this did to Chad’s family. But it didn’t work for me. I
wanted more from this story.
Rating: 2 /
5
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