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Plot: There's a new man in his mother's life. A difficult, dangerous, violent man. Now Jake's got to stand up for himself and his family.
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MCT:August 11, 2008Michael Apted directs a heavy-handed suburban sitcom about a harried divorced mom and her two children. Wendy Livingston (Teri Garr) is alone raising her 15-year-old high school son Jake (Christopher Collet) and his adolescent brother Brian (Corey Haim) after divorcing lawyer hubby Alan--someone she still loves. Hubby remarries and on the rebound Wendy meets security system salesman Sam, and has him move into her comfortable suburban home over the objections raised by her children. Sam turns out to be a small-time cocaine dealer with big plans to own a restaurant and get his own surveillance business. All he needs is capital. The children spot him immediately as a big-talking phony despite his trying to buy them off with gifts, and family life in the once happy household becomes a bummer. Sam is an abusive surrogate father and a nasty asshole, but Wendy digs him and ignores the pleas of her children to ditch this good for nothing. The performances are strong, the plot moves with a compelling simplicity, and the dialogue shows a good ear for the way the movie's different kinds of characters might really speak. The movie had been so good that somehow it didn't have the right to evade all the issues it had raised and just turn into a suburban thriller.
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MCT:July 21, 2008Corey Haim was one of my heartthrobs back in the 80s. It's a shame what happened to him, but I will always love his old movies and anything he does in the future. This was one from his early days and he was definetly a star in the making. I wish him luck in getting back on his feet. I watch him now a days on his tv show The Two Coreys and sometimes watching it is sad and I just keep saying to myself this is such a shame, but people pick there own paths and hopefully he will find his way back. Forever will love Corey Haim.
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MCT:July 17, 2007
This was an amazing movie. Christopher Collet was perfect and Peter Weller was a very good looking bad guy. Terri Garr was beautiful and talented as usual. The whole drug and abuse story was very shocking, and with Corey Haim and Christopher Collet this was a movie teens wanted to see. I thought it was all around 2 thumbs up
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MCT:July 11, 2007...Directed by: Michael Apted ...Cast... Teri Garr Peter Weller Christopher Collet Corey Haim Sarah Jessica Parker Robert Downey Jr.....There's a new man in his mother's life. A difficult, dangerous, violent man. Now Jake's got to stand up for himself and his family.
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MCT:December 20, 2006
I want 2 see dis coz it could be funny or it could be boring so Im gonna put dis 5 star because we have 2 try everything in life so lol
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