I didn't plan to write a comment, but two years have passed since the last person who wrote one for this movie. So here I am. I got this tape from a local library which was donated by a patron.I have to say Ryan Phillippe looked really cute in this movie. The environment that his character Jimmy lives is really trashy, but he still looked cute with his sparkling innocent eyes. His presence certainly added some extra points for this movie.I didn't read the brief description on the tape box, so I didn't know what this story is all about. To me, the movie has some confusing points at the beginning. Jimmy didn't call that guy as his dad, so I wasn't sure what their relationship was. Did Kate and Ray actually work or own that bar? Was Jimmy forced to have sex with Kate all the time? How did he become the father of those two boys without remembering? Why were there boxes in Ray's bedroom, etc? Somethings just don't make sense, how can that rich girl and Jimmy go to the same high school since they live so far apart. And why would she pay attention to him since he is so poor. And she actually went to his trashy place, tried to have sex with him? Beyond that, this is a dark and entertaining movie. It has the mystery all the way to the end, it kept me interested. I am sure that there are still people like them who live in the US even today. They have the mundane life.

I am confused about the last shot of the movie. The close up of the rusted container. Did that have some meaning? I found the movie interesting and disturbing. The acting was well done. After reading many of the comments on this movie I agree there are many questions left unanswered. I assume that was the director's intent. Or as one writer said the result of questionable editing. I would recommend this movie to my friends but with a warning that it is hard to watch. I think it might actually trigger some post traumatic stress in someone who has been abused. Please respond if you have thoughts about the last shot of the movie. Thanks

Little boy blue is a blonde haired young man who lives with his trailer trash family out in the middle of nowhere, down south. His mom works at a bar and his dad does the classic haunted dysfunctional Viet Nam vet role. THere are random stabs of violence and the macabre but it's not cohesive and the movie has little impact because it's such an unlikely story that was attempted to be told for no particular reason that I can fathom. I don't think they had any idea on how to shift gears in this movie and as such the shifts are extremely clumsy. The way this story is told is inept and dull and the editing is poor with the pacing of the scenes. This is a pointless plot that can't seem to represent any of its' plot elements believably.One thing I noticed that was funny:When a woman is being questioned by police she is given Texas beer and she asks for Sam Adams instead. In the next camera shot she is drinking Heineken and there is no Texas beer or Sam Adams anywhere in the room. Bizarre.Ryan Phillipe is the main character and he's pretty annoyingly androgynous here, I was kind of hoping his back street boys character would die painfully. He does a much better job in "Five Fingers" and "Igby Goes Down".

This movie is for the adult audience, the actors do a wonderful job portraying each role, I do wish it was a little longer, but it was well thought out and very good.The beginning of the movie is shown to the very end, where a couple in the 70's are heading towards Texas with their baby, and they unfortunately end up picking up a soldier on his way home.Summary: The seemingly normal couple Ray and Kate West live in the outback somewhere in Texas with their 3 sons, the adult son Jimmy is a great baseball player, but doesn't seem to want to do anything in his life except be around the younger boys, who he is extremely protective over. As the movie progresses we see that there are plenty of secrets hidden within the family when Jimmy is forced to have sex with Kate at gunpoint by Ray.At first the impression I got of the movie was that Jimmy would no doubt kill his father one day for putting him through that form of incest, but as the movie continued it started to make more sense that it wasn't entirely incest, but more a very disfunctional family who suffer from Ray's war "wounds" and are paying the price of what he had gone through. Ryan Phillippe does a superb performance as Jimmy, the tortured and hurt young man, who wants to be with his girlfriend, but has deeper issues concerning his family. John Savage, again another excellent performance, after seeing him in Dark Angel I must admit the bad guy routine really suits him, but I wasn't really fond of Natassja Kinski's acting and character. She still ends up being the devoted wife, who loves her husband even though he puts her through hell. How weak. The younger cast, the two sons were great, really good acting! I'd give this movie a fair 8/10 with a question mark, being we live in this day and age wouldn't a mother try to protect her sons even if it means leaving her husband? (Or shooting him? Hello?? He has a gun in the house, doesn't anyone else know how to use one?!)