The Unsaid - silent screams

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Movie
German title The Unsaid - silent screams
Original title The Unsaid
Country of production USA , Canada
original language English
Publishing year 2001
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Tom McLoughlin
script Miguel Tejada-Flores
Scott Williams
production Tom Berry
Matthew Hastings
Kelley Feldsott Reynolds
music Don Davis
camera Lloyd Ahern II
cut Charles Bornstein
occupation

The Unsaid - Lautlose Schreie (Alternative title: Let the past rest , Lautlose Schreie ; Original title: The Unsaid ) is an American - Canadian thriller from 2001 . Directed by Tom McLoughlin and written by Miguel Tejada-Flores and Scott Williams .

action

Psychologist Michael Hunter and his wife attend a school play for their daughter Shelly. Her depressed son, Kyle, stays home because he says he couldn't stand being around people that day. While the parents applaud their daughter's performance, Kyle kills himself in the garage at home.

A few years later the family's coexistence was broken because of this loss. Michael withdraws, writes books, gives guest lectures, but no longer treats patients. When his former student Barbara Wagner approaches him and asks him for help in a case, he initially refuses. After some pressure, Michael finally takes on the task of examining the young person Thomas (Tommy) Caffey. The boy watched as his mother was killed by his father. Michael is supposed to assess whether he can be discharged from the psychiatric facility on the day he will soon come of age. While taking care of this case, however, Michael notices how much the boy reminds him of his own son Kyle, and the guilty feelings about his son's death are now boiling up in the psychologist.

Tommy becomes friends with Michael's daughter Shelly, whom he meets at a party. Shortly before, Tommy killed a girl who wanted to have sex with him. Shelly and Tommy get closer and Shelly tells him the story of Kyle. From then on, Tommy uses this information in therapy and manipulates Michael, who increasingly sees Tommy as his own son.

When Michael visits Tommy's father in prison, it turns out that Tommy's mother abused her son as a lover and slept with him regularly, which is why the father beat her to death when he happened to be home early one day.

In flashbacks and through Michael’s stories, the viewer gets some information about the background to Kyle’s suicide. At the time, Michael had arranged for his son to be treated in therapy by Harry Quinlan, a college friend, also a psychologist, instead of having him prescribed medication. Michael later learned through his son's farewell letter that Quinlan was sexually abusing him in therapy. After Michael found out, he wanted to confront him, but he did not open the front door. From the terrace Michael watched as Quinlan held a gun to his head and called out to him in a rage to shoot himself. Quinlan shot himself.

In the finale of the plot, Tommy visits Barbara, who was originally responsible for him, in her apartment and wants to urge her to let him go into an independent life early. When she asks him about his mother and touches her, Tommy pushes her through a glass door, knocks her down and escapes. In a stolen car and armed with a pistol, Tommy picks up Shelly from home and drives off with her. Michael finds the badly injured Barbara in her apartment and finally attaches himself to Tommy's heels. The boy's rampage comes to an end on the train tracks. Michael confronts Tommy, who pointed the gun at him, about his mother's act. The teenager gives up, drops the gun and Michael gives the boy a hug, relieved. As a train approaches, Tommy breaks away from the hug and runs onto the tracks, towards the train. Michael tears the boy off the track at the last second.

In the final sequence, Michael and Tommy play carefree with a ball in the institution.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was a " conventional but captivating psychological thriller, well-directed and able to create a dense atmosphere ". The camera work and the music were praised, but " the most important assets are Andy Garcia and the two young talents Cardellini and Kartheiser ".

Cinema magazine wrote that the film was a “ clever shocker over the depths of the soul ”.

Awards

Tom McLoughlin won the Audience Award at the Marrakech International Film Festival in 2001 and was nominated for a Golden Star .

backgrounds

The film was in Regina ( Saskatchewan turned). Its production amounted to an estimated 22 million US dollars . The world premiere took place on July 24, 2001 at the Fantasy Film Festival . The film was released direct on DVD in some countries such as the US, Canada and the UK , while it was shown in theaters in France , Italy and Spain, among others . In the United States, sales of about 4.67 million US dollars were made with DVD rentals.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Unsaid - Lautlose Schreie in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed January 30, 2008
  2. ↑ Cinema, accessed January 30, 2008
  3. ↑ Filming locations for The Unsaid, accessed January 30, 2008
  4. ^ Box office / business for The Unsaid, accessed January 30, 2008
  5. ↑ The Unsaid release dates, accessed January 30, 2008