Two parents deal with the effects when their son is accused of murdering his girlfriend.

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Film Cast:

• Carolyn Ryan: Meryl Streep
• Ben Ryan: Liam Neeson
• Jacob Ryan: Edward Furlong
• Judith Ryan: Julia Weldon
• Panos Demeris: Alfred Molina
• Fran Conklin: Daniel von Bargen
• Wendell Bye: John Heard
• Terry Taverner: Ann Magnuson
• Martha Taverner: Alison Folland
• Marian Raynor, Prosecutor: Kaiulani Lee
• Dr. Tom McAnally: Larry Pine
• Panos’ Assistant: Ellen Lancaster
• Judge Grady: Wesley Addy
• T.J.: Oliver Graney
• T.J.’s Mom: Bernadette Quigley
• Dr. Ryan’s Assistant: Pamela Blair
• Dr. Trygve Hanson: John Wylie
• Doctor #1: John Deyle
• Young Policeman: Timothy Patrick Cavanaugh
• Hardware Clerk: John Webber
• TV Reporter: Jay Potter
• Female Bailiff: Sharon Ullrick
• Journalist #1: Robert Westenberg
• Journalist #2: Susan Pratt
• Court Defendant (uncredited): Nino Del Padre
• Arraignment Court Clerk (uncredited): Jim Gardner
• Courtroom Audience (uncredited): Paul Giamatti
• Bailiff (uncredited): Jordan Lund
• Protester (uncredited): Erin Liz Peck
• Photo Journalist (uncredited): Kevin Craig West

Film Crew:

• Producer: Barbet Schroeder
• Unit Production Manager: Chris Brigham
• Production Supervisor: Denise Pinckley
• Assistant Art Director: Carl Sprague
• Set Dresser: Daniel K. Grosso
• Second Assistant Director: Michael DeCasper
• Assistant Set Decoration: Jessica Lanier
• First Assistant Director: Henry J. Bronchtein
• Location Manager: Scott Hornbacher
• Set Dresser: Chris Vogt
• Production Controller: Kathleen McGill
• Camera Operator: Dick Mingalone
• Associate Producer: Jonathan Glickman
• Second Second Assistant Director: Amy Lauritsen
• Boom Operator: Daniel Rosenblum
• Script Supervisor: Cornelia ‘Nini’ Rogan
• Steadicam Operator: Jerry Holway
• Costume Supervisor: Patricia Eiben
• Construction Coordinator: Raymond M. Samitz
• Special Effects Coordinator: Steve Kirshoff
• Post Production Supervisor: JoAnn M. Laub
• Assistant Sound Editor: Nicholas Renbeck
• Assistant Sound Editor: Todd Milner
• Special Effects Coordinator: John D. Milinac
• Dolly Grip: Dave Lowry
• Costume Supervisor: Kevin P. Faherty
• Supervising Sound Editor: Ron Bochar
• Sound Mixer: Tom Nelson
• Assistant Costume Designer: Erin Folsey
• Key Grip: Tom Prate
• First Assistant Editor: Donna Stern
• Dialogue Editor: Gina Alfano
• Second Assistant Camera: David E. Baron
• Steadicam Operator: Garrett Brown
• Steadicam Operator: David Knox
• Assistant Sound Editor: Dan Evans Farkas
• Dialogue Editor: Eliza Paley
• Assistant Costume Designer: Sue Gandy
• First Assistant Camera: Michael Green
• ADR Supervisor: Deborah Wallach
• Extras Casting Assistant: Terri Taylor
• Stunts: David M. Graves
• Still Photographer: Jim Bridges
• Extras Casting: Carolyn Pickman
• Stunts: Bob Marrocco
• Foley Editor: Kam Chan
• Dialect Coach: Tim Monich
• Stunt Coordinator: Richard L. Blackwell
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Michael Barry
• Stunts: Blaise Corrigan
• Stunts: G.A. Aguilar
• Stunts: Donald J. Hewitt Jr.
• Casting Assistant: Meredith Tucker
• Foley Editor: Steven Visscher
• Scoring Mixer: John Kurlander
• Stunts: Jim Vickers
• Foley Artist: Marko Costanzo
• First Assistant Accountant: Kathryn Mindala
• Color Timer: Mark Ginsberg
• Foley Editor: Frank Kern
• Stunt Coordinator: Doug Coleman
• Stunts: Danny Downey
• Unit Publicist: Larry Kaplan
• Stunts: Deborah Watkins
• Title Designer: Robert Dawson
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Stuart Robertson
• Stunts: Ned Corrigan
• Stunts: Douglas Crosby
• Stunts: Roy Farfel
• Director of Photography: Luciano Tovoli
• Editor: Lee Percy
• Original Music Composer: Howard Shore
• Set Dresser: Ray Fisher
• Executive Producer: Roger Birnbaum
• Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau
• Hair Department Head: Lori Guidroz
• Hairstylist: J. Roy Helland
• Art Direction: Steve Saklad
• Key Makeup Artist: Craig Lyman
• Producer: Susan Hoffman
• Executive Producer: Joe Roth
• Makeup Artist: Jean Ann Black
• Costume Design: Ann Roth
• Casting: Howard Feuer
• Production Design: Stuart Wurtzel
• Book: Rosellen Brown
• Screenplay: Ted Tally

Movie Reviews:

• 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?