He looked like the ideal husband. He seemed like the perfect father. That's just what they needed. But that's not what they got.
When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangering their lives. As the mother struggles to maintain hope in an impossible situation, the son has plans to escape.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
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Cast
- Robert De NiroDwight
- Ellen BarkinCaroline
- Leonardo DiCaprioToby
- Jonah BlechmanArthur Gayle
- Eliza DushkuPearl
- Chris CooperRoy
- Carla GuginoNorma
- Zachary AnsleySkipper
- Tracey EllisKathy
- Kathy KinneyMarian
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- Michael Caton-JonesDirector
- Robert GetchellScreenplay
- Tobias WolffNovel
- David WatkinDirector of Photography
- Carter BurwellOriginal Music Composer
- Jim ClarkEditor
- Art LinsonProducer
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