I watched about 10 minutes of ...
Question: I watched about 10 minutes of a movie whose title I can't for the life of me remember. It was about a very smart albino boy who was locked in a basement and only discovered by the police when his parents die.
Answer: My money is on Powder (1995), a pop parable starring Sean Patrick Flanery as a bald, pallid teenager whose isolated upbringing leaves him painfully vulnerable when he is forced to join the ordinary world.