The Unsaid (2001) 6.4
A seemingly-untroubled adolescent carries disturbing secrets that compel a psychiatrist to unearth the patient's gruesome past. Director:Tom McLoughlin |
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The Unsaid (2001) 6.4
A seemingly-untroubled adolescent carries disturbing secrets that compel a psychiatrist to unearth the patient's gruesome past. Director:Tom McLoughlin |
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Michael Hunter
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Kyle Hunter
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| Chelsea Field | ... |
Penny Hunter
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| Linda Cardellini | ... |
Shelly Hunter
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Peter Hanlon | ... |
University Chairman
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| Teri Polo | ... |
Barbara Lonigan
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Dena Lang | ... |
Gina
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Trevor Aikman | ... |
Graduate Student
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| Brendan Fletcher | ... |
Troy Pasternak
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| David Millbern | ... |
Brad
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Max Peters | ... | |
| Sam Bottoms | ... |
Joseph Caffey
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| Sarah Deakins | ... |
Diana Caffey
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Joe Drago | ... |
Flashback Cop
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Michael Hunter's lovely, beloved 17 year-old son Kyle committed suicide, although he was in therapy for depression and this ruins Michael's marriage, his daughter Shelly moves in with her mother. He stops treating patients in order to write and teach Psychotherapy, until many years later a student gets him fascinated by the case of Thomas 'Tommy' Caffey. He was about to be released at his 18th birthday from the closed 'boys school' he was placed into after his father, Joseph, was put into jail for beating his adulterous mother to death. Michael feels that Tommy carries a big chip on his shoulder, ignores that Shelly fell for him at first sight, but is mesmerized by Tomy's resemblance (purposefully enhanced) to Kyle. There is also a revealing meeting with Tommy's dad in jail. Written by KGF Vissers
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.