The Unsaid (2001)

Director:

Tom McLoughlin

Writers (WGA):

Christopher Murphey (story)
Miguel Tejada-Flores (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

14 September 2001 (Italy)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

He'll risk everything to unlock the secrets of the past.

Plot:

A seemingly-untroubled adolescent carries disturbing secrets that compel a psychiatrist to unearth the patient's gruesome past.

Plot Keywords:

Jail | Death | Beating | Suicide | Depression

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Andy Garcia	...	Michael Hunter
Trevor Blumas	...	Kyle Hunter
Chelsea Field	...	Penny Hunter
Linda Cardellini	...	Shelly Hunter
Peter Hanlon	...	University Chairman
Teri Polo	...	Barbara Lonigan
Dena Lang	...	Gina
Trevor Aikman	...	Graduate Student
Brendan Fletcher	...	Troy Pasternak
Vincent Kartheiser	...	Thomas Caffey
David Millbern	...	Brad (as David Millburn)
Max Peters	...	Young Tommy
Sam Bottoms	...	Joseph Caffey
Sarah Deakins	...	Diana Caffey
Joe Drago	...	Flashback Cop

Also Known As:

Sins of the Father (USA) (working title)
The Ties That Bind (USA) (original script title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, nudity/sexual content, language and some drug material.

Runtime:

Argentina:111 min | Colombia:109 min | France:111 min | Germany:105 min | Peru:108 min | USA:111 min (DVD)

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Portugal:M/16 | Netherlands:16 | Netherlands:12 (TV version) | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Denmark:15 | Germany:16 (video premiere) | Peru:14 | Spain:18 | USA:R | South Korea:15 | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Company:

New Legend Media

Goofs:

Continuity: When Tommy scares Shelly when she is making him a drink, her hair changes from being behind her back and ears, to in front of her.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Joseph Caffey: If you repeat this I will deny it. Like I have been and I always will. To my grave. Do you understand?

Soundtrack:

Takeh

So Real

I just read all the comments. Some loved it. Some were bored with it. Some were, in my opinion, just trying to be supercritic. Here's the thing though. Having worked in the business of Social Work and Counseling, and having experienced the real world of some of these very real problems. . . I would like to simply add the comment that I thought the movie was so real it hurt. I thought the script was very realistic. It never went for the possible "extras" to hype it up. They could easily have let the former professor and his former student have an affair, they didn't. They could easily have played up the manipulation of the boy against the psychologist, they didn't. In all that it's downplayed, the realistic speaking type of performance, we were allowed to see the wretched grief, and anger, and blocked memories that do come out with horror and a bang. It was REAL. It was superb. It was better than that. From script, to acting, to film shots, to editing, from directing, and producing, from casting so perfectly a real woman who looked like a real mother, and even the psychologist's special lecture to the students at the beginning. It was all so real. So real it hurt.