Top cast:Edwin August,Stephanie Longfellow,Gladys Egan
Director:Mike Flanagan
Genre:Thriller
Region:Thailand
Year:2010
Storyline:Told with inventive, stylized, timeless and darkfilm noirishimages, symbolism and visual poetry, it blends both a pastoral setting with dream-like creatures, fanatical characters, imperiled children during a river journey, a wicked guardian/adult, and salvation and redemption in the form of a old farm woman (a ""fairy godmother"") rather than from a saintly but devilish Bible-totin"" Preacher." When a bow-tied Mulwray is called to speak, the lanky, bespectacled man lambasts he politician""s project that would give the desert area north of LA (the San Fernando Valley) irrigation water." To learn about the "simple nature of right and wrong," Bruce decided to travel the world, study criminal behavior and conquer his fears - he "learned the fear before a crime and the thrill of success.I like that.As the young couple suffered from unpaid bills (in a wrenching supermarket scene, young Teddy (Huckleberry Fox) handed back aClarkcandy bar to the checkout clerk with a simple: "I don""t need it"), young mother Emma also discovered that her feckless husband, a college literature professor, was unfaithful and sleeping with one of his graduate students.