Not exact matches
Annie's cancer story, and all the romantic relationship
drama that comes with it, sucks up all the
emotional juice, but surely King's groundbreaking research, which took 17 years to come to fruition,
involved struggle, too.
This film is packed with
involving performances, even though Jackson takes a bloated approach to what should be a quietly
emotional drama.
But in the moments when its missing - child
drama simply aches with expressions of loss or confusion, it suggests the
emotional acuity of The Wire or Mystic River — two other projects that novelist Dennis Lehane has been
involved in.