Now another event has occurred that brings them back together. To the horror of one-time hood and current convenience store owner Jimmy and his second wife, Annabeth (LAURA LINNEY), their 19-year-old daughter, Katie (EMMY ROSSUM), is found brutally murdered.
Sean and his Massachusetts State Police partner Whitey Powers (LAURENCE FISHBURNE) are the first detectives on the scene and set out to solve the case by interviewing various witnesses and potential suspects such as Katie's secret boyfriend, Brendan Harris (TOM GUIRY). As they do their job, Jimmy's criminal friends, the Savage Brothers (KEVIN CHAPMAN & ADAM NELSON), do their own sort of detective work, thug style.
And Dave's timid wife, Celeste (MARCIA GAY HARDEN), begins to question him and his behavior when he returns home on the night of the murder, covered in blood and claiming to have beaten off and possibly killed a mugger. As the events unfold and emotions rise to the boiling point, the three former friends are reunited in ways they never could have imagined.
Violence consists of a person being stabbed and shot to death, some brutal attacks on others, an off-screen murder, a kidnapping and implied child molestation. Some of those scenes have rather bloody results and they and others may be unsettling or suspenseful to some viewers.
A father and mother must deal with the murder of their 19-year-old daughter, while other tense family material is also present. Various characters have varying degrees of bad attitudes, while some smoke and/or drink (with one being rather intoxicated).
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(2003) (Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon) (R)
Alcohol/
DrugsBlood/Gore
Disrespectful/
Bad AttitudeFrightening/
Tense ScenesGuns/
Weapons
Heavy
Heavy
Extreme
Moderate
Heavy
Imitative
BehaviorJump
ScenesMusic
(Scary/Tense)Music
(Inappropriate)Profanity
Mild
Minor
Moderate
None
Extreme
Sex/
NuditySmoking
Tense Family
ScenesTopics To
Talk AboutViolence
Moderate
Moderate
Extreme
Heavy
Extreme
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Reviewed October 1, 2003 / Posted October 8, 2003
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