Little Boy Blue (1997)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Antonio Tibaldi

Writer (WGA):

Michael Boston (written by)

Release Date:

29 May 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

Murder. Seduction. Revenge.

Plot:

Living in the rural Texas panhandle is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a...

Plot Keywords:

Texas | Dysfunctional Family | Male Nudity | Mother Son Incest | Boyfriend Girlfriend Relationship

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Ryan Phillippe	...	Jimmy West
Nastassja Kinski	...	Kate West
John Savage	...	Ray West
Shirley Knight	...	Doris Knight
Tyrin Turner	...	Nate Carr
Jenny Lewis	...	Traci Connor
Brent Jennings	...	Tom
John Doman	...	Andy Berg
Devon Michael	...	Mark West
Adam Burke	...	Mikey West
Kaitlin Hopkins	...	Young Doris Knight
Dennis Letts	...	Sergeant Phillips
Jerry Cotton	...	Detective Fleaharty
Michael Boston	...	Leo Dalt
Gail Cronauer	...	Motel Clerk

MPAA:

Rated R for some strong sexuality, violence and language.

Runtime:

99 min | Argentina:105 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Argentina:13 | Germany:16 | USA:R | Portugal:M/16

Filming Locations:

Austin, Texas, USA

Company:

Jazz Pictures

Goofs:

Continuity: At the end of the movie, a policeman buys a six pack of local Texas beer, the bottles of which are dark brown. They remove the six pack from the brown bag and put it on the table. After Doris Knight talks for a while, the beers become the Dutch import Heineken, and the beer package seems to be back in the brown bag again.

Pretty impressive movie.

This movie is for the adult audience, the actors do a wonderful job portraying each role, I do wish it was a little longer, but it was well thought out and very good.

The beginning of the movie is shown to the very end, where a couple in the 70's are heading towards Texas with their baby, and they unfortunately end up picking up a soldier on his way home.

Summary: The seemingly normal couple Ray and Kate West live in the outback somewhere in Texas with their 3 sons, the adult son Jimmy is a great baseball player, but doesn't seem to want to do anything in his life except be around the younger boys, who he is extremely protective over. As the movie progresses we see that there are plenty of secrets hidden within the family when Jimmy is forced to have sex with Kate at gunpoint by Ray.

At first the impression I got of the movie was that Jimmy would no doubt kill his father one day for putting him through that form of incest, but as the movie continued it started to make more sense that it wasn't entirely incest, but more a very disfunctional family who suffer from Ray's war "wounds" and are paying the price of what he had gone through.

Ryan Phillippe does a superb performance as Jimmy, the tortured and hurt young man, who wants to be with his girlfriend, but has deeper issues concerning his family. John Savage, again another excellent performance, after seeing him in Dark Angel I must admit the bad guy routine really suits him, but I wasn't really fond of Natassja Kinski's acting and character. She still ends up being the devoted wife, who loves her husband even though he puts her through hell. How weak. The younger cast, the two sons were great, really good acting!

I'd give this movie a fair 8/10 with a question mark, being we live in this day and age wouldn't a mother try to protect her sons even if it means leaving her husband? (Or shooting him? Hello?? He has a gun in the house, doesn't anyone else know how to use one?!)