The Good Son

    The Good Son
    1993

    Synopsis

    A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic behavior.

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    Cast

    • Macaulay CulkinHenry Evans
    • Elijah WoodMark Evans
    • Wendy CrewsonSusan Evans
    • David MorseJack Evans
    • Daniel Hugh KellyWallace Evans
    • Jacqueline BrookesAlice Davenport
    • Quinn CulkinConnie Evans
    • Ashley CrowJanice Evans
    • Guy StraussArizona Doctor
    • Keith BravaDoctor in Blackport

    Recommendations

    • 91

      Entertainment Weekly

      The Good Son delivers its knuckle-gnawing set pieces with a skill that makes other thrillers look logy.
    • 70

      Time Out

      Young Mac is decisively upstaged by Wood, but the film's strongest selling point has to be a cliff-top finale in which the tyke's own mother has to choose whether he'll live or die. A summer camp classic.
    • 67

      Austin Chronicle

      An above-average “killer kid from hell” picture. Not The Bad Seed but not bad.
    • 63

      TV Guide Magazine

      The Good Son is a second-rate thriller with first-rate production values. On a lower budget and without the hottest child star in America in the cast, Ruben and McEwan might have made a meaner, tougher and more successful thriller.
    • 50

      Chicago Reader

      There's wonderful use made of a Maine port town, and Ruben gets a dizzying thrill or two out of overhead shots, but the conceptual overload finally prevents this from coming together.
    • 50

      ReelViews

      At best, this film is strictly cable fare.
    • 50

      Washington Post

      The mere presence of the adorable baby star, in fact, seems to throw the whole film out of whack, making the picture play more like an inadvertent comedy than a thriller.
    • 40

      Washington Post

      Culkin's best comedy ever. If only this movie wasn't supposed to be a horror picture.

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