Tenderness

I hate this type of character that Russell Crowe always seems to play when he's not an alpha male - the older, paunchy mumbler.

He's a retired detective who is convinced that Eric, an 18 year old recently released from prison who murdered his parents and possibly another girl, will do so again. Lori, a lonely trashy girl, is obsessed with Eric and keeps a scrapbook of articles about him. When she finds out he's been released, she engineers a meeting with him. Russell takes it upon himself to keep an eye on Eric and follows them both on a roadtrip to nowhere.

Nice to see Laura Dern albeit briefly, she's great and so is Sophie Laub as Lori initially annoying, strangely unfathomable and ultimately just as much of a psycho as Eric.


NO - a cold but glossy indie