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Brother's Keeper Review - DVD Verdict
October 24 2002
Lucinda Pond is a disgraced cop living out of a remote Oregon fishing shack, with a bottle to escape the torment of her past and the pain of her only on-duty mistake. Seems an innocent man was accidentally shot to death during a raid she was leading. The target of the SWAT team, a notorious child molester, escaped and has never been apprehended. Worse, Internal Affairs blames the entire situation on possible mental problems (she suffered a hellacious childhood) and she has been placed on psychological leave. And just when it seems her life can't get any more troubled, her intelligent, erratic brother escapes from jail and begins an uncharacteristic killing spree, planting bizarre clues along the way. It's not long before the police realize that Lucinda is the only one who can decipher her brother Ellis' elaborate riddles and quirky messages. But once she is back on the force, old issues return to haunt her, like the raid mistake, and the horrible abuse she and her sibling faced at the hands of their heinous father. Every step along the way to solving the crimes leads deeper and deeper into just what happened on that fateful day in Lucinda's past, and the part that Ellis may have played in it.
While it's not going to win any awards for cleverness or artistic merit, Brother's Keeper is a fine little thriller that features excellent performances, first rate direction (by Hollywood veteran John Badham) and some original plot twists and turns. Basically a story about how child abuse affects the life of the lawful and the lawless, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Corin Nemic make an excellent pair of opposing forces, each an indictment against parental cruelty.
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