We just saw this at the library and picked it up because I love movies based on true stories! We both kept trying to figure it out and had us on the edge of the seat the entire time! I would recommend it to all my friends! Maybe a little run of the mill, but anything but boring!!!!!!! You would never guess the ending, awesome flick!Kind of jumped around a bit as far as story lines, but once you got into the movie, you understood it! Give it a watch, it is worth the time!I did not know anybody in the movie as big stars, but that doesn't always matter! It is the acting of who is in it!One of those movies you look back on and go, wow, we should watch that again!

We were given a mystery within a mystery. The director lead us into the emotional pain of parents who have lost a child, only to be given a clue as to the resolve for their missing child through the discovery of the probably first missing child in the list to be compiled by the Serial Killer. It's complexity are the clues that are so cleverly left as you watch the movie, leaving you with so many unanswered questions when the credits appear and you know, there is more and the opportunity to explore has ended. Excellent movie displaying a visual unspoken story of what to look for in a child molester, and what would provoke the death of a child. Now, I want to find the book, the original story. There is more within to help answer my questions.

Yes, I am biased, but he is definitely a sympathetic character in this film weaving a 1940's child killing to a current missing child case (grieving father well-portrayed by Jon Hamm/"Mad Men"). Hamm is also good here as he shows a different and more human side of his acting ability. In "Mad Men" he plays a slight sexist (apropos for that era, though).Lucas has three sons, Mark, Luke and John. The youngest child John is autistic (in the 1940's that was clearly a cardinal sin.). When Lucas' wife commits suicide and they are foreclosed on, he must hit the road to find any employment, and give his sons to in-laws to take care of them. His brother-in-law, Jonas is a nasty piece of work and refuses to take care of "the autistic one" John.Lucas finds construction work with a random group, one ("The Swede", played by Holt McCallany, and one portrayed by James Van Der Beek, nicknamed "diploma").The peripheral/current story of Hamm and his marital woes with Barbara are rather predictable, though we feel for him becoming obsessed with this 50 year old case of the murdered autistic child John.Without detailing the outcome, I will say there are some notable performances by Hamm and Lucas here, and the haunting story of missing and murdered children, and how society treats them.It is also a timely story, children in the U.S. are murdered and missing every day. Highly recommended. If you like this theme you may also like "The Dead Girl" an amazing film about a missing girl and how society treats disaffected people. 10/10.

I have to admit that I have never watched Mad Men, so Jon Hamm is, in a sense, new to me. I am sure I have seen him in other shows, but I do not recall any at the moment.He plays Detective Tom Adkins, who is looking for his son, who disappeared eight years earlier.Simultaneously, we see the story of Matthew Wakefield (Josh Lucas), who is trying to find work to help his three children after his wife dies. His son disappears while he is having a hot time with another man's wife (Morena Baccarin).There are similarities between the two disappearances. Akins is determined to find out what happened to Wakefield's son, and that leads him to a creepy James Van Der Beek.But, he must decide if he will let his life be ruined searching, or if he will embrace his wife and move on.I enjoyed seeing Rhona Mitra (Passion of the Priest, Hollow Man, and The Life of David Gale) as Tom's wife. She always brings an energy to her roles that make them enjoyable.