Little Boy Blue

This squalid, sleazy tale of backwoods nastiness tries to redeem itself with a triumph-of-the-human-spirit coda that can barely pull itself loose from the tar pit of sordid lunacy in which it's mired. Recent high-school grad Jimmy West (Ryan Phillippe) is smart, athletic and, to all appearances, a decent kid, born of the kind of rural nut jobs city folks live in terror of meeting up with on dark country roads. Jimmy has a wealthy girlfriend whose family is not only not freaking out that she's dating trailer trash, but is willing to send him to college, so you have to wonder why he's not jumping at the chance to get away from daddy Ray (John Savage), a human ti...