Guy Pearce is a professor of philosophy at a local college. He is married to Minnie Driver and has two young children. When a college student goes missing, the police investigation in the person of Pierce Brosnan focuses on Pearce, revealing old secrets to him and Miss Driver.
I found it annoying. Not only was there the Lifetime Channel lighting, but there was an enormous sense of coyness in the way the truth of what had happened is revealed: Pearce is questioned by Brosnan or Miss Driver or his lawyer, Clark Gregg; he offers a response of poor memory, and a Pontius-like query of what is truth, and eventually we get to see the actual events unfold in flashback. There's no focus for viewpoint or sympathy, and I was left with a very clear feeling of being deliberately manipulated by a sophomore philosophy major who thought he was being oh, so clever.
I found it annoying. Not only was there the Lifetime Channel lighting, but there was an enormous sense of coyness in the way the truth of what had happened is revealed: Pearce is questioned by Brosnan or Miss Driver or his lawyer, Clark Gregg; he offers a response of poor memory, and a Pontius-like query of what is truth, and eventually we get to see the actual events unfold in flashback. There's no focus for viewpoint or sympathy, and I was left with a very clear feeling of being deliberately manipulated by a sophomore philosophy major who thought he was being oh, so clever.