Synopsis
After twelve years in prison, Walter returns home. His family has abandoned him, save for his brother-in-law. Few know he's a sex offender and pedophile. Walter finds an apartment and is regularly visited by his parole officer. He gets a job at a lumber mill and starts seeing a coworker. Then his new world begins to unravel; as his past becomes known, he strikes up a high-risk friendship with a young girl and realizes that a man loitering near a schoolyard is a child molester prowling for his next victim.
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Cast
- Kevin BaconWalter
- David Alan GrierBob
- Kyra SedgwickVicki
- EveMary-Kay
- Benjamin BrattCarlos
- Carlos LeonPedro
- Michael ShannonRosen
- Nicole GibsonGirl with Red Ball
- Kevin RiceCandy
- Yasiin BeySgt. Lucas
Recommendations
- 80
The Hollywood Reporter
A stunning, difficult film. - 80
Variety
A stunningly crafted work from first-time feature director Nicole Kassell. - 80
Village Voice
An engrossing study of a protagonist who variously inspires pity, clinical interest, fondness, and revulsion-sometimes all at once. - 80
Los Angeles Times
The film's core, anchored by a fine ensemble cast and a controlled, focused performance by Bacon, is completely solid. - 75
ReelViews
It takes a confident actor to accept a role like this and to perform it to flawless perfection. - 70
Chicago Reader
Bacon conveys the weight of his character's anguished struggles through his economy of movement, and the powerful, spare script is refreshingly devoid of cant. - 70
TV Guide Magazine
Kassell's visual influences are evident -- she's clearly a fan of the down-and-dirty films of the '70s -- but the consistently fine performances smooth over the rough patches. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
Worth seeing for Bacon's lived-in minimalist purgatory, but the movie soft-pedals the nature of the desires he's at war with: the fact that they will never go away.
