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Advantages: A couple of decent supporting performances
Disadvantages: Awful script, lame direction, abysmal leading performances

A white woman staggers into a New Jersey hospital, bleeding and disoriented. She claims to have been carjacked by an African-American man. When she finally reveals her four year-old son was in the car at the time, the police leap into action. Detective Lorenzo Council is assigned to the case and launches a country-wide search for the missing boy. The accompanying media frenzy threatens to ignite a race war in the immediate area. But something doesn't ... Read review

Advantages: The foundations of a good story
Disadvantages: The finale is a complete cop out

Brenda Martin arrives at hospital with her hands ripped open from an encounter with a carjacker who has stolen her car with her kid in the back. Brenda volunteers at the local projects, and believes that the assailant is somebody who comes from there. When Detective Lorenzo Council turns up to investigate, something doesn't ring true about her story. Knowing human nature all too well, he wonders why she doesn't flinch when faced with a man of african-american ... Read review

Advantages: none that stand out
Disadvantages: too many irrelevant characters involved

~ Story Outline ~ Based on the bet-seling novel by Richard Price, this explosive thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson (1994, Best Supporting Actor, Pulp Fiction) and Jullianne Moore (2002, Best Actress, Far From Heaven) and Golden Globe winner Edie Falco ("The Sopranos"). When Brenda Martin (Jullianne Moore) claims her car was stolen with her son in the backseat, the chilling accusation sparks an intense investigation led by Detective Lorenzo Council ... Read review