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Sep 24, 1993 · Watching “The Good Son,” I asked myself that question, hoping that perhaps the next scene would contain the answer, although it never did. The movie is a creepy, unpleasant experience, made all the worse because it stars children too young to understand the horrible things we see them doing.
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The film opens with the death of Mark’s (Wood) mother (Ashley Crow). His father, Jack (David Morse), decides to go to Japan for a business deal that will settle him and his son for life. So, he travels across 11 states to put Mark in the care of Jack’s brother Wallace (Daniel Hugh Kelly) and his wife Susan (Wendy Crewson) for a couple of weeks. Mar...
The climax of the film takes place on a cliff. Susan is understandably upset after learning that her one son killed the other. She is devastated and heartbroken but doesn’t let those emotions lead her to mindless anger. Instead, she tries to understand Henry and tells him that he needs help. But her soothing words seem to have the opposite effect t...
Before her death, Mark’s mother Janice tells him that she will always be with him. Young as he is, Mark takes this quite literally. And after meeting Susan, his beliefs are affirmed that his mother has come back to him. For her part, Susan gladly accepts this, hoping to help this motherless child find his way back to his happiness. But when Mark tr...
Sep 2, 2023 · Joseph Ruben’s “The Good Son” (1993) gives us mixed feelings right from the start. The opening credits' font and Elmer Bernstein’s score suggest a tender The Good Son cast Macauley Culkin against type in the most dramatic way possible. Here's why that was a mistake.
Aug 22, 2019 · A great case study for this is 1993’s The Good Son. The story is essentially a riff on The Bad Seed : a seemingly innocent child is really a sadistic psychopath and nobody believes that they ...
Sep 28, 1993 · A slick, superficial thriller from Joel Ruben, director of "Sleeping With the Enemy" and "True Believer," "The Good Son" glides smoothly over its many plot holes and lapses in logic, though the story does not fare well under retrospective scrutiny.
The Good Son is a 1993 American psychological thriller film directed by Joseph Ruben and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was written by English novelist Ian McEwan. Its story follows a 12-year-old boy named Mark who, after the death of his mother, is sent to stay with his aunt and uncle while his father is away on a business trip.
Culkin is surprisingly good at being bad (and amoral, and manipulative), Elijah Wood is just as solid, and Wendy Crewson is the mother any (normal!) son would like to have. *** out of 4. 10 out of 11 found this helpful.
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