We watch:
- Kate Winslet ("Contagion") as Adele, the clinically depressed mother who is forced to shelter an escaped convict in order to protect her son.
- Josh Brolin ("Gangster Squad") plays Frank, a felon who escaped from the hospital where he had an emergency appendectomy. He tells her "things aren't like they seem."
- Gattlin Griffith ("Green Lantern") is Henry, the boy is struggling to help his mother, who is practically agoraphobic. He sorts through bits of information gleaned from her, a classmate, and his father, who has remarried and has a second family.
- Maika Monroe ("The Bling Ring") is Mandy, the classmate, overflowing with youthful theories about life, love, sex and family dynamics.
- Clark Gregg ("Much Ado About Nothing") is Gerald, Adele's former husband. He knows he has let down his son Henry and regrets it.
- James Van Der Beek (Lots of TV) is the ultra-helpful Officer Treadwell. If only he weren't quite so diligent...
- Tobey Maguire ("The Great Gatsby") is the adult Henry.
This is PG-13, so expect some mildly sensual situations (no nudity), little or no profanity, the presence of a gun but the only gunshots are off screen and, as I recall, harmless. The screening audience, defying more "artistic" critics, applauded this one.
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Here is the trailer:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1967545/?ref_=nv_sr_1
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Here is the trailer:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1967545/?ref_=nv_sr_1
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