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Plot: Beth Cappadora (Michelle Pfeiffer) is at her high school reunion when her 3-year-old son disappears from his brother's care. The little boy never turns up, and the family has to deal with the devastat...( read more read more... )ing guilt and grief that goes along with it. Nine years later, the family has relocated to Chicago. By a sheer fluke, the kid turns up, living no more than two blocks away. The authorities swoop down and return the kid to his biological parents, but things are far from being that simple. The boy grew up around what he has called his father, while his new family are strangers to him; the older son, now a teenager, has brushes with the law and behavioral problems. His adjustment to his lost brother is complicated by normal teenage churlishness, and the dad (Treat Williams) seems to expect everything to fall into place as though the family had been intact all along. It's a tightrope routine for actors in a story like this, being careful not to chew the scenery while at the same time not being too flaccid or understated. For the most part, the members of the cast deal well with the emotional complexity of their roles. Though the story stretches credulity, weirder things do happen in the real world. The family's pain for the first half of the film is certainly credible, though the second half almost seems like a different movie. Whoopi Goldberg plays the detective assigned to the case; casting her is a bit of a stretch, but she makes it work. All in all, a decent three-hanky movie in the vein of Ordinary People. --Jerry Renshaw

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  • melcricket
    melcricket
    3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    May 27, 2008
    Keep your tissues handy. Very heavy material but it stays interesting. I appreciated the Hanson and Spice Girls posters in the daughter's room.
  • movieloverbeauty
    movieloverbeauty
    2.5 Stars
    MCT:
    April 17, 2008
    061600:
    One on my tearjerker movie list. I nearly cried on this, way back. How she lost her son and found him after how many years and dealt with getting to know of their new grown up son as well as their other son who felt blamed for losing his brother.
  • Evangeline2005
    Evangeline2005
    5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    March 6, 2008
    Ok this movie is just a tear jerker.. It is kinda happy and sad at the same time. You have to see it in order to understand the story... but a woman loses her son (he is kidnapped) and year and years later they move to a new town and he is just living down the street.
  • RuthieGreenGirl
    RuthieGreenGirl
    2.0 Stars
    MCT:
    December 22, 2007
    This movie takes you to the depths of hell (I mean it's a mother's worst nightmare) and then tries to bring you back. It was a hard sell for me.
  • gms1yygy
    gms1yygy
    4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    October 1, 2007
    Don't pay much attention to the summary when you click on the cover for the plot of this movie. It's better than that! Good story; well told and very well acted.
  • thmtsang
    thmtsang
    3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    August 11, 2007
    Moving story about a family who's son disappears but thye find him years later. Brilliant performance by Michelle.
  • urbanlegend687
    urbanlegend687
    4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    July 26, 2007
    very good m ovie so true what happen when some one get kidnapped and comes back to his parent so true
  • EdenEye6
    EdenEye6
    3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    July 14, 2007
    How hard it must be to lose a child and have no idea what happened to them. And to have them appear at your doorstep nearly 10 years later. Wow.
  • marialarsson891
    marialarsson891
    5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    July 9, 2007
    Interesting as the story is more about the hard time afterwards when they all try to live as a family again instead of the search after Ben.
  • Wolfsbane
    Wolfsbane
    3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    July 4, 2007
    An interesting movie that would be very emotional for people able to sympathise with it. Though I am not one of those people I still enjoyed the film and will read the book one day as I have heard it is much better.
  • bendaimmortal
    bendaimmortal
    3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    May 30, 2007
    Worth warching but doesn't much respect the book. They left out most of the important and significant scenes or just refered to them in the most meaningless way such as "Ben is teribly afraid of water." there was so much more to it but they never say anything else.

    The three stars are for the great actors and little ben who's actor was especially perfectly picked seeing to the character of the book. He'd only have deserved more screen time and if repected the book he could have had.

    This movie is rather sad-minded when the book is torture but still absolutely worth reading. I saw this movie on one Christmas day and it immidietly got me very much interested in the book.
  • marilamerma
    marilamerma
    3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    April 20, 2007
    I watched this one ages ago.. and aldo its in some ways an average film, there are some aspects of it that can be analyze and enjoy.The plot, that can be a little weak sometimes its interesting . Probably a family film.
  • countrycapers
    countrycapers
    4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    April 18, 2007
    Really liked this simple film..of a parents struggle to get back their son..who goes missing at the start of the film...good performances by the lead actors..and the kids..:-)
  • chipsnsalsa08
    chipsnsalsa08
    3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    February 14, 2007
    It was better than some movie's I've been forced to watch, but it was so unrealistic.. Why would you leave your five-year-old kid alone with his little brother in the middle of Chicago? Is Beth just an idiot?
  • Missy2106
    Missy2106
    2.5 Stars
    MCT:
    February 9, 2007
    This was a decent okay movie, but I didn't like some parts of the story and how it was portrayed. I thought it to be somewhat unrealistic.
  • pinkblondebimbo
    pinkblondebimbo
    3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    December 29, 2006
    wonderful beatiful film...such a lovely heartfelt story...really movng...cant help but cry...michelle is great in her role!!!
  • gurkhagirl
    gurkhagirl
    3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    December 25, 2006
    It finally arrived! I must say, I expected it to be a lot more emotional than it actually was. Perhaps i'll feel different if I watch it again. I did enjoy the film though, it was really well done.
  • bdmc7199
    bdmc7199
    4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    December 5, 2006
    I enjoyed this movie. The plot was similar to other movies, yet had its unique differences too that made it worth seeing. I won't say what the differences are as they would be spoilers. Just watch it! :)
  • movieloverforlife
    movieloverforlife
    4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    October 25, 2006
    Good drama movie. A true to life kind of movie. This one is hard to watch if you have children, because it is about this woman's son, who goes missing at age 3. It has a happy ending, so that's good.

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