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23 July 2008 (USA) moreTagline:
Who Decides Who Gets A Second Chance?Plot:
The story of a young ex-con Jack, newly released from serving a prison sentence for a murder he committed as a child. | full synopsisPlot Keywords:
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9 wins & 7 nominations moreNewsDesk:
(8 articles)
Evans Set for Lead in Dread (From Dread Central. 10 October 2008, 1:23 AM, PDT)
On DVD: "Boy A," "The Unforeseen"
(From IFC. 7 October 2008, 6:53 AM, PDT)
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beautiful and bleak moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Andrew Garfield | ... | Jack Burridge |
| Alfie Owen | ... | Eric Wilson |
| Katie Lyons | ... | Michelle |
 | Peter Mullan | ... | Terry |
| Taylor Doherty | ... | Philip Craig |
| Shaun Evans | ... | Chris |
 | Anthony Lewis | ... | Steve |
| Siobhan Finneran | ... | Kelly |
| James Young | ... | Zeb |
 | Skye Bennett | ... | Angela Milton |
 | Victoria Brazier | ... | Teacher |
| Madeleine Rakic-Platt | ... | Schoolgirl |
| Josef Altin | ... | Bully |
| Dudley Brewis | ... | 2nd Bully |
| Leigh Symonds | ... | Eric's Dad |
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Rated R for language, sexuality, some disturbing content and brief drug use.Parents Guide:
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Canada:100 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | USA:100 minCountry:
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This movie hearkens back to the great working class British film dramas of the 1960s. Inspired, I believe, by an actual crime of about a decade ago, in which one child killed another child, the movie provocatively imagines the life of the killer many years afterward. At one point the protagonist is called a monster by a character who has never met him. I was reminded of the cover of a major news magazine at the time of the Columbine massacre, which featured a picture of the adolescent killers with the caption "monsters." I thought to myself that, however disturbed, these are still human beings more like than unlike the rest of us, and what does it say about the rest of us if we deny their humanity and refuse to look at the source of their disturbance? This is the very starting point of "Boy A" and the conclusions it reaches about "the rest of us" are bleak. This is a deeply, disturbingly sad movie. I found it intensely involving, and intensely moving. However, if you watch it, be prepared for a vision of humanity so dark that the most humane character in the story is a murderer.