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Brother's Keeper Review - Variety
January 22 2002
A taut two-hour original pic from director John Badham, USA's "Brother's Keeper" cleverly plays the emotion and action cards, offering a mix of "Silence of the Lambs" psychological thrills with "CSI" gritty detective work. Badham, a veteran of character-driven action movies, creates a visually textured account of the unbreakable emotional bond between brother and sister.
Told in a mix of present-day action and fragmented flashbacks, we learn of a relationship between criminal investigator Lucinda Pond (Jeanne Tripplehorn) and her younger and very disturbed brother Ellis (Corin Nemec). Both survived their abusive childhood at the hands of their alcoholic father, with Lucinda serving as Ellis' protector. Big sis, who often took the belt for her brother, taught him to solve riddles and word problems as a diversionary tactic.
As adults, the two still exchange riddles, but Ellis is imprisoned for various petty crimes while Lucinda becomes a highly decorated cop. Her career, however, is cut short after her investigation into an alleged serial killer, Victor Orbin, goes awry and costs her her marriage and badge.
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