Much more than merely a role-reversal British version of KRAMER VS. KRAMER. Hopkins is divorced and distraught, a self-diagnosed victim of the feminism he once so ardently supported.
As the film opens, he takes on an outing the six-year-old son he sees only on weekends. Hopkins carries the boy on his shoulders, but there is a distant cast to his eyes; when he pushes his son on a swing, he pushes a little hard. He is curt with his ex-wife (Walter); when he returns the boy to
her, he quickly jumps on his motorcycle and speeds off into the night. As he zooms along, his mind's eye is overtaken by the surreal image of a baby's face smothered by womblike plastic. Hopk...
Released:
1986
Rated:
R
Length:
90 mins