When is a TV movie of the week not a TV movie of the week? When it's an
English TV movie of the week and gets released to U.S. theaters. That said, this is an earnest and extremely well-acted dramatization of a bundle of hot-button issues,
including child abuse, homosexual parenthood and the effect of divorce on children, even when both parents are doing their best to be civil and do what's right for the child. Martyn Wyatt (Martin Donovan), a gay doctor living with a younger man (Ian Hart), suspects that his 9-year-old son Oliver
(Sam Bould) is being beaten by his ex-wife's (Joely Richardson) new boyfriend (Jason Flemyng). She refuses to believe his accusat...
Released:
1996
Rated:
NR
Length:
106 mins