Reviews

I thought the beginning was a little curious, then had to watch the whole thing to see where it was going...I was able to leave the room to do something else more than one time and still could follow it, but it is lengthy...I mostly got hooked on the cop and where his story line was going, and eventually I could see how most of these story lines tied together...the ending I think is Biblical, representing the end times due to all our trespasses (and theirs), wiping the past clean, and the time for renewal, as with how all the relationships seemed to reconcile themselves..I was torn between not liking it and then wanting to see it again and see how (now that I knew where it was going), events meant more the second time...I was getting tired of all the F***'s, after about the 1000th time I'd heard it.

I had seen this mini-series when it first aired, mostly because I am a big fan of Brian Dennehy, and very much enjoyed it. But in the last couple of years, there was a resurgence in the news story of the Kennedy nephew as a suspect in a murder of a young girl, and although I probably never paid attention to it when it first happened, the newer revelations involved having a man from a private school that the nephew attended, and he possibly had "inside info" as a confession or overheard conversation that the nephew was guilty. This school was in Maine, and the owner is also a high-profile owner of the local horse-race track, so now I paid attention to it, and thought this sounded like a movie I saw...Thinking back on it I remembered it was this movie, so I had to watch it again when it was aired on Lifetime this weekend, and now there is no way you could convince me that this novel wasn't based on the story...and the ironic thing is that in the movie the murder took place in a town called Scarborough Hills, and the racetrack the man in question owned is called Scarborough Downs. Had anyone else noticed these similarities?

I'm by no means a movie critic, I just know what I like. I thought the characters were very believable (except I had a hard time with Kevin's Mass. accent), and I REALLY enjoyed Bruce Greenwoods's performance, definitely award material as I saw it. I did note that there was one character in the film that I thought bore a stiking resemblance to Peter Lawford, so when I looked up his character's name on this website, I was amazed to learn that it was his son (appropriate, since he is a Kennedy.) This is a movie I would see over again.