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Overview

User Rating:
5.0/10   317 votes
Director:
Douglas Jackson
Writer:
Kevin Bernhardt (screenplay)
Release Date:
10 January 1997 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama | Thriller more
Plot:
A businessman (Donald Sutherland) has a hotshot young new partner (William McNamara). What he doesn't... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Nice thriller,good acting but bad representation of adoptees more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)
Donald Sutherland ... Ted Robards

William McNamara ... Jeremy Harper

Lesley Ann Warren ... Sandy Robards

Joe Pantoliano ... Stuart

Tia Carrere ... Christina D'Amelio
Christian Tessier ... Chris Robards

Lenore Zann ... Gina Knox
Rosemary Dunsmore ... Judy

Vlasta Vrana ... Stanley Knox

Claudia Besso ... Claire, Receptionist

Serge Houde ... Mitchell Sherwood

Richard Zeman ... Bob
Terry Haig ... IRS Agent
Michael Caloz ... Young Jeremy

Tedd Dillon ... Father
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Additional Details

Runtime:
88 min | Germany:85 min
Country:
Canada | USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Finland:K-18 | Iceland:16 | Australia:M | Germany:16 | UK:18 (video premiere) | USA:R
Filming Locations:
Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Jeremy Harper: I bet you wish you could send me to my room now huh?
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Nice thriller,good acting but bad representation of adoptees, 16 May 2007
6/10
Author: reeves2002 from Canada

I picked up this DVD for a cheap price and love any movie which deals with adoption issues. The movie was exciting and well acted with some good dialog with black humor and some shocking scenes.Donald Sutherland was as always very good.I thought Lesley Ann Warren who played the unsuspecting birth mom did a good job expressing her emotions about her past and the secret she never told her husband.It is the first movie i've seen Christian Tessier who plays "Chris",and even though he only had a small role,I liked him and don't know why he's not in more films.William McNamara was very convincing in this film as "Jeremy" an angry adoptee who wreaked havoc on his blood relatives and their family.He looked so innocent but had no conscience,and gave a realistic and chilling performance.This film showed every negative aspect and emotion of being an adopted person. Everything from anger of being abandoned to genetic sexual attraction.Of course this is only a fictitious movie and not the reality of most adoptees. The end credits gave it's statistics about how troubled adopted kids are or can be,and gave extreme examples.I am adopted and understand how it feels to grow up with it.I was lucky to have a loving and supportive adoptive family and a good upbringing and this isn't always the case.However I still suffered the stigma of it and had my issues with it like we all do.The main problem I have with this movie was at the end where it boldly says that in most places adoption records are sealed.I found that offensive because the majority of searching adoptees want their medical info and wanna know where they came from(what their roots are)and have a right to know.This movie was made 11 years ago but today records are finally being opened more and more. I did enjoy the movie,but feel it was a bad representation of an adopted person.Still it is a very dramatic experience from all sides and there should be more movies about it.

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