Meryl Streep

Liam Neeson

Edward Furlong

Julia Weldon

Alfred Molina

Daniel von Bargen

John Heard

Ann Magnuson

Alison Folland

Kaiulani Lee

Larry Pine

Ellen Lancaster

Wesley Addy

Oliver Graney

Bernadette Quigley

Pamela Blair

John Wylie

John Deyle

Timothy Patrick Cavanaugh

John Webber

Jay Potter

Sharon Ullrick

Robert Westenberg

Susan Pratt

Nino Del Padre

Jim Gardner

Paul Giamatti

Jordan Lund

Erin Liz Peck

Kevin Craig West

Barbet Schroeder

Jonathan Glickman

Chris Brigham

Henry J. Bronchtein

Michael DeCasper

Denise Pinckley

Kathleen McGill

Scott Hornbacher

Amy Lauritsen

Jessica Lanier

Daniel K. Grosso

Chris Vogt

Carl Sprague

Dick Mingalone

Michael Green

David E. Baron

Jerry Holway

Garrett Brown

David Knox

Tom Nelson

Daniel Rosenblum

Sue Gandy

Erin Folsey

Patricia Eiben

Kevin P. Faherty

Cornelia 'Nini' Rogan

Tom Prate

Dave Lowry

John D. Milinac

Steve Kirshoff

Raymond M. Samitz

JoAnn M. Laub

Donna Stern

Ron Bochar

Gina Alfano

Eliza Paley

Deborah Wallach

Nicholas Renbeck

Dan Evans Farkas

Todd Milner

Frank Kern

Steven Visscher

Kam Chan

Marko Costanzo

Michael Barry

John Kurlander

Kathryn Mindala

Tim Monich

Jim Bridges

Larry Kaplan

Meredith Tucker

Carolyn Pickman

Terri Taylor

Doug Coleman

Richard L. Blackwell

Deborah Watkins

Donald J. Hewitt Jr.

Danny Downey

Blaise Corrigan

Ned Corrigan

Douglas Crosby

Roy Farfel

David M. Graves

Bob Marrocco

Jim Vickers

G.A. Aguilar

Robert Dawson

Stuart Robertson

Mark Ginsberg

Luciano Tovoli

Howard Shore

Lee Percy

Ray Fisher

Roger Birnbaum

Susan Hoffman

Joe Roth

Howard Feuer

Stuart Wurtzel

Steve Saklad

Gretchen Rau

Ann Roth

Jean Ann Black

Lori Guidroz

J. Roy Helland

Craig Lyman

Rosellen Brown

Ted Tally

Crime

Drama

Mystery

Before and After

Hollywood Pictures

Caravan Pictures

United States of America

CinemaSerf

Edward Furlong "Jacob" puts in a reasonable effort here, but otherwise this is a really unremarkable drama that muddles along despite rather than because of the two stars at the top of the bill. When a young girl is murdered, he is the suspect and so dad "Liam Neeson" immediately takes steps to help his son by destroying what looks like damning evidence. The ensuing court case pushes the usual array of buttons as the intra-familial relationships between him, his father, mother (Meryl Streep) and sister "Judith" (Julia Weldon) are strained. Alfred Molina is actually quite plausible as the win-at-all-costs lawyer "Demeris" and we plod along, glacially, to a ending about which I couldn't actually care. It's not a terrible film, all of the cast deliver what is asked of them, but the narrative meanders all over the shop all too often; the dialogue and faux-emotional scenes are flat and the ending just re-iterated a question that so many of these pointless dramas are predicated on... Why not just go to the police in the first place and rely on them to do their jobs properly?

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