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When The Bough Breaks 1993 NR Uncut Ally Walker Thriller DVD.
Very rare and hard to find out of print movie.
A must have movie for any fans of Ally Walker.
This movie is a DVD transfer from DVD master to a brand new high quality DVD+R Disc.
DVD picture and sound quality is between 9 and 10.
RELEASE DATE: May 07, 1994
GENRE: Drama - Horror - Mystery - Suspense - Thriller
SYNOPSIS:
Can a child's telepathic mind help find a serial killer?
The Houston Texas Police Department is thrown into an uproar when someone discovers a bag full of severed human hands. Each one has a different number tattooed on the palm and the police suspect a serial killer. Things take an even stranger turn when they enlist the aid of an unusual boy with telepathic powers.
Ally Walker plays a Police Detective who investigates the apparent serial killing of several children which is linked to an institutionalized, autistic child.
During a July 4th mardi gras in Houston Texas, a pair of severed children’s hands are found having washed out of the sewers. It is the latest in a series of killings in which one pair of children’s hands have been found every July 16th. Forensic profiler Audrey McLeah is sent to investigate. She follows a lead, which takes her to Jordan Thomas, a teenager at a local psychiatrist hospital who has been an elective mute since a child. Every July 16th, his birthday, Jordan draws a pair of hands on the wall of his cell. Audrey struggles to find a way to communicate with Jordan and find the link between him, his dead twin sister and the killer.
Its success is entirely due to a stunning thriller plot. It is structured around the relationship between Ally Walker and the autistic boy (actually played by a girl, Tara Subkoff) and the provision of a series of eerie twists. Each of the twists – the moment Ally Walker finds the word ‘Mine’ written on the wall, Jordan starts mimicking Ally’s voice with perfectly mimed mouthed movements, the scene where he writes that his name is Jennifer Lynn Eben and that he is underground – all contain a genuinely spooky thrill. The growing relationship between the two, triumphing in his speaking for the first time, is conducted with enormous emotional power. It is due to the effectiveness of these thrills and the emotion engendered that one does not question the many holes in the script until one sits down to think about the film afterwards. These do nevertheless exist – the telepathic relationship between Jordan and his twin is never explained; we never find out what drives the killer to abduct a child and cut off their hands every July 16th and why he has chosen to alter his pattern now; or the frankly unbelievable coincidence that a second paedophile who stalks victims in an ice cream truck just happened to be present and mistakenly caught on videotape the day one of the other children was abducted. But due to the effectiveness of the film, one is prepared to accept these stretches of dramatic licence.
COMMENTS:
Ally Walker gives a good and convincing performance, certainly a great deal better than the non-performance she gave in the previous film she appeared in – Universal Soldier (1992). Her character is well sketched and as a result she was subsequently cast in an almost identical role in the first three seasons of the tv series Profiler (1996– ). Indeed When the Bough Breaks could almost have served as a pilot episode for Profiler. The film at first seems to set her up alongside Martin Sheen as a classic city slicker dealing with the locals relationship but Sheen, despite top-billing, is unexpectedly dropped by the wayside about halfway into the film and the relationship between Walker and Subkoff allowed to take over.
When The Bough Breaks owes an enormous debt of inspiration to The Silence of the Lambs (1991). It is probably safe to say that without the success of The Silence of the Lambs, then When The Bough Breaks would never have emerged. When The Bough Breaks Bough is surprisingly good – one may even hazard to suggest that it is actually a far better film than the overrated The Silence of the Lambs.
SPECIAL NOTES:
This was the very first movie for actress Gina Philips.
Ally Walker star of the hit Television Series The Profiler stars in this movie.
This movie had a sequel called The Perfect Prey where Kelly McGillis took over the role that Ally Walker originated in When The Bough Breaks.
CAST:
Ally Walker ... Special Investigator Audrey Macleah
Martin Sheen ... Captain Jack Swaggert
Ron Perlman ... Doctor Douglas Eben
Tara Subkoff ... Jordan Thomas / Jennifer Lynn Eben
Robert Knepper ... Lieutenant Jimmy Creedmore
Scott Lawrence ... Sergeant Footman
John P. Connolly ... Sergeant Belvin
Dick Welsbacher ... Coroner Vince Hess
James Medina ... Sergeant Delarand
Ron Recasner ... Doctor Singer
Mark Daneri ... Detective Sam
Gina Philips ... Teenage Girl
Taylor Brock ... Anchor
Michael Cohn ... Director
Barry L. Collier ... Producer |
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