(The movie doesn't even supply the usual hearings, social workers, etc.) There is a scene at the other home, with Kapelos protesting his innocence to dozens of cops, and then an awkward scene in which the story of the kidnapping is explained in snappy dialogue. We suffer with Pfeiffer and Williams as they grieve their lost child and fight over the blame, but after nine years, their life has fallen into a rhythm, and it is the other family that is ripped apart when the boy's true identity is revealed.Ĭonsider: You raise a son from infancy in a happy household, only to have him snatched away from you, just like that. The audience knows, but the movie apparently doesn't, that the real drama in the later stages is in the father's story. The film's most crippling failure is in the treatment of the adoptive father, who is played with gentleness and great strength by John Kapelos. So the child has been brought up by an adoptive father who of course had no idea he was kidnapped.
He was kidnapped by Pfeiffer's neurotic classmate, who later married and then committed suicide. Nine years pass, the couple moves from Madison, Wis., to Chicago, and then the boy is found again-mowing their lawn.
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