![]() ![]() And just now I was quite surprised to see all the reviews, since I considered it to be a forgotten movie. I never forgot this one after all these years, but it was hard-to-find on DVD. Despite the script's loose ends and poor ending, "When The Bough Breaks" is still worth a one-time watch due to superb suspense through most of the film. Amplified sound effects convey an appropriate immediacy to scenes. The film exhibits good production design and color cinematography. But maybe Walker's problem relates more to the Director's style. She comes across as jittery and abrasive, in marked contrast to Sheen who gives a convincingly realistic performance. The casting and performance of Walker is also baffling. It's like the scriptwriter knew exactly where he wanted to take the story, but then near the end got his pages all mixed up, or lost, and used pages from another script to complete this one. Unfortunately, the ending collapses into a pile of unresolved issues and an incoherent resolution that left me confused. This thriller genre film sports foreboding background sounds and music to enhance the scary visuals. During this time, Macleah interviews a young boy in a mental ward, chases a prospective child killer, and ends up in a spooky old house that contains some spooky surprises. The plot plays out in segments corresponding to dates, beginning on July 4th and spans a period of about two weeks. Set in Houston, the story involves a hotshot young investigator named Audrey Macleah (Ally Walker) assigned to assist police Captain Swaggert (Martin Sheen) in a grisly case of severed hands. Up until near the end this film held my attention. ![]() Title (Brazil): "Assassinatos Macabros" ("Macabre Murders") Tara Subkoff is also amazing with her double-role. Ally Walker has a great performance in the role of a professional with many specializations, but also with a trauma from her childhood. "When the Bough Breaks" is a surprisingly solid thriller, with a well developed dark story and a good conclusion. Audrey dedicates her attention to Jordan and discovers that he is connected to the serial-killer. When the police department receives a call from a medical doctor in an institution, Audrey visits him and the doctor introduces the autistic boy Jordan Thomas (Tara Subkoff) to her, disclosing seven hands that the boy had drawn on the wall. The highly qualified Special Investigator Audrey Macleah (Ally Walker) is assigned to join the team and give support to the investigation. Captain Swaggert (Martin Sheen) is investigating the discovery of seven hands, each one precisely severed and with a number tattooed on the palm, along many years but without any lead. On July, 4th in Houston, a teenager finds a human hand in the sewer. Although I wish it is edited better with some semblance of style. This movie doesn't have the flashiness and I actually don't mind. The scenes in the hospital are too slow and the movie drags in too many places. I wish the case is better written for these characters' sake. The teen in the mental hospital is too much and too cliché. Giving her claustrophobia is a nice touch. Ally Walker is pretty good as this driven profiler character. This is a mix bag of interesting characters and unreal over-stylized characteristics. It's fascinating that Ally Walker is playing a profiler a couple years before getting her TV role as a profiler. ![]() Jordan writes the name of Jennifer Lynn Eben, twin daughter of Dr. The state mental hospital has a mute boy Jordan Thomas (Tara Subkoff) with mysterious lines around his wrists who draws hands on the walls. Special Investigator Audrey Macleah (Ally Walker) is a profiler from the State Crime Division and brought in to aid the team. Captain Swaggert (Martin Sheen) leads the investigation of seven neatly severed hands with tattooed numbers. A dismembered hand is washed out from the sewer. ![]()
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