Hugely ambitious and driven by Julianne Moore, Samuel L. Jackson and Edie Falco's fine, intense performances, Richard Price's adaptation of his own sprawling novel about a racially charged kidnapping that turns a volatile New Jersey town into a powder keg tries to tell too many stories in too little time. The nightmare begins when bloodied, near-hysterical Brenda Martin (Moore) stumbles into a Dempsey hospital claiming she was carjacked by a black man in the nearby Armstrong projects, where she works at a day-care center. Dempsey detective Lorenzo Council (Jackson) knows her story doesn't add up: She only reluctantly admits that her 4-year-old son, Cody, was asleep i...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
115 mins