Le poids du déshonneur

Titre original : Before and After

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Edward Furlong, Liam Neeson, and Meryl Streep in Le poids du déshonneur (1996)

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Crime Drama Mystery

La vie idyllique de Carolyn et Ben Ryan est brisée en un instant, quand la petite amie de leur fils adolescent, Jacob (Edward Furlong), est découverte sauvagement assassinée.La vie idyllique de Carolyn et Ben Ryan est brisée en un instant, quand la petite amie de leur fils adolescent, Jacob (Edward Furlong), est découverte sauvagement assassinée.La vie idyllique de Carolyn et Ben Ryan est brisée en un instant, quand la petite amie de leur fils adolescent, Jacob (Edward Furlong), est découverte sauvagement assassinée.

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Anecdotes
In the scene where Meryl Streep enters a court room to appear in front of the grand jury in the front row (in the middle of the frame) sits a young Paul Giamatti as an extra his head turned around to have a look at her.

Gaffes
After Jake and his girlfriend pull over, their car gets stuck in the snow and the two are unable to drive away. It is unexplained how Jake is able to dive out of the rut alone after his girlfriend's fall if the two could not do the job while working together.

Citations
Jacob Ryan: That's juts a bunch of sentimental bullshit.
Carolyn Ryan: Wait, sentimental bullshit
Jacob Ryan: Yeah everyone's parents say that.
Carolyn Ryan: Oh really, and do everyone's parent destroy evidence and lie... to the police?

Connexions
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: City Hall/The Late Shift/Happy Gilmore (1996)

Bandes originales
Crawling
Written by Dave McClain and Phil Rind
Performed by Sacred Reich
courtesy of Hollywood Records

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A Moderately interesting character study of a family in crisis.

"Before and After" has a fine premise - the girlfriend of their 16-yr-old son is found apparently murdered in the snow and the parents struggle with what to do. Eventually, when the son goes A.W.O.L., they suspect he commited a murder, and the whole family struggles with what to do. The father finds bloody items in the trunk of the car and is able to dispose of them before the sheriff returns with a search warrant. Eventually the son shows up, the father and mother disagree on what to do, the younger sister gets upset.

"Before and After" also has some of the finest actors of our day - Liam Neeson as the father, Meryl Streep as the mother, Daniel Von Bargen as the sheriff.

But, somehow the movie only works moderately well. Some of the dialog is a bit dubious, some of the scenes are over-dramatic. I suppose it is a function of so-so writing and directing.

Still, it is a film that kept my interest very well. The story got me to thinking what I would have done if any of my teenage children had gotten into a similar bind. With a great writer and director this could have been a "10" movie. I rate it 7 of 10.