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

Amy Lauritsen

David E. Baron

Sue Gandy

Michael Green

Jerry Holway

Tom Prate

Michael DeCasper

Dick Mingalone

Chris Vogt

Kathleen McGill

Daniel K. Grosso

Jessica Lanier

Kevin P. Faherty

Daniel Rosenblum

Cornelia 'Nini' Rogan

Scott Hornbacher

Denise Pinckley

Carl Sprague

Tom Nelson

Dave Lowry

Henry J. Bronchtein

Patricia Eiben

Deborah Wallach

Todd Milner

John D. Milinac

JoAnn M. Laub

Doug Coleman

David Knox

Steve Kirshoff

Raymond M. Samitz

Eliza Paley

Nicholas Renbeck

Ron Bochar

Garrett Brown

Erin Folsey

Dan Evans Farkas

Mark Ginsberg

Tim Monich

Richard L. Blackwell

John Kurlander

Terri Taylor

Danny Downey

Robert Dawson

Donald J. Hewitt Jr.

Jim Bridges

Meredith Tucker

Ned Corrigan

Douglas Crosby

Kathryn Mindala

Frank Kern

David M. Graves

Stuart Robertson

Kam Chan

Carolyn Pickman

Bob Marrocco

Donna Stern

Gina Alfano

Steven Visscher

Larry Kaplan

Deborah Watkins

Roy Farfel

Marko Costanzo

Michael Barry

G.A. Aguilar

Blaise Corrigan

Jim Vickers

Luciano Tovoli

Howard Shore

Lee Percy

Ray Fisher

Lori Guidroz

J. Roy Helland

Howard Feuer

Joe Roth

Jean Ann Black

Gretchen Rau

Roger Birnbaum

Stuart Wurtzel

Ann Roth

Steve Saklad

Susan Hoffman

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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