- Actors: Meryl Streep, Liam Neeson, Edward Furlong, Julia Weldon, Alfred Molina
- Directors: Barbet Schroeder
- Writers: Rosellen Brown, Ted Tally
- Producers: Barbet Schroeder, Chris Brigham, Joe Roth, Jonathan Glickman, Roger Birnbaum
- Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
- Language: English
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
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- Studio: Walt Disney Studios Entertainment
- Release Date: April 6 2004
- Run Time: 108 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00008L3UM
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- #49 in DVD > Mystery & Suspense > Crime > Courtroom Drama
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Liam Neeson and Meryl Streep play a couple going through a parents' nightmare: Their son (Edward Furlong) is accused of murdering a local girl. What's worse, he's gone into hiding, seeming to lend credence to the charges. Neeson, as a passionate, intuitive artist, tries to take matters into his own hands; when he finds what appear to be blood-stained clothes in the kid's car, he cleans the whole thing up and winds up destroying evidence, making matters increasingly worse. Before and After is a solid if stolid drama, with a strong, controlled performance by Streep as the worried wife and mother, while Neeson comes off as overwrought playing the controlling father. Given the subject matter and the presence of director Barbet Schroeder, this movie should be a lot more interesting than it is. --Marshall Fine
From the Studio
Two of Hollywood's brightest stars, Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady) and Liam Neeson (The Chronicles of Narnia, Schindler's List), deliver spellbinding performances in this riveting, suspense-filled thriller! A small, close-knit community is rocked by a shocking murder ... and the only suspect is the teenage son of a respected local family. Suddenly, Dr. Carolyn Ryan (Streep) and her husband Ben (Neeson) are faced with a gut-wrenching dilemma: Whether to risk everything on their son's innocence...or protect him from his possible guilt! Devastating yet powerfully entertaining - you're sure to agree with critics everywhere who found Before And After thrilling from beginning to end!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not a movie - real life,
By Breila of Caer Rhudd Glain (Winnipeg) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Before and After (DVD)
Before the movie or the book, this really happened - details were merely changed. My brother did what he did and my parents and I are still dealing with it. The ending is radically different from real life and makes me nostalgic. If you don't understand the movie - you won't unless you have to, be glad you don't. Not everything can be explained even in real life. I still struggle with the why of losing a beautiful sister-in-law, attending parole hearings in a federal penitentiary, seeing my parents disintegrate into premature old age... The book is 5 stars.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Wake me when it's over,
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This review is from: Before and After (DVD)
Sulky teen Jacob Ryan (Edward Furlong) is accused of killing his girlfriend, and his parents (Meryl Streep, Liam Neeson) at first try to cover up what really happened; later, the truth comes out. Or is it the truth?How such talented actors could make such an abysmal film is nothing short of amazing. The movie is just bad. Every word that the characters say sounds like, well, movie dialogue. None of it rings true. Everyone - from the parents, to the boy, to his little sister, to the lawyer - is way too Noble and Heroic to be believable. The pregnant pauses, pained expressions, and lofty platitudes about loving one's family and doing the right thing are over-done and just plain boring. There's no question Streep and Neeson are fine actors, but here they over-act shamelessly and are hampered by ridiculous dialogue and a script that never quite knows where it's going. Alfred Molina is good as the lawyer, but he is still saddled with trite dialogue and courtroom drama that would have embarrassed Perry Mason. Furlong, whose specialty was playing sullen, pouty kids, sleepwalks through the movie. If he doesn't care, why should we? The corny voice-over narration saying life changes forever after an event like being accused of murder isn't true; their life seems pretty much the same afterward. I give it two stars for the picturesque New England scenery.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Toothless story,
By A Customer
This review is from: Before and After (VHS Tape)
The great shame of this movie is that it veered so terribly from the premise of the novel.Brown's novel was so gripping and emotionally difficult precisely because Jacob did murder his girlfriend in cold blood. We struggle with the family as they come to grips with this hard truth: a seemingly "normal" family can indeed produce a dysfunctional, disturbed child and educated, thoughtful parents are often powerless to understand why. All of the dramatic power came from the adults struggling to figure out what to do with a son they don't recognize, and a younger sister knowing very well who her brother is but unable to share that information because the adults are interested in hearing it. The movie pulled the teeth from this story when it gave us the eleventh-hour confession of Jacob's crime as *an accident*. Good grief. The movie, which wasn't very good to start with, then collapsed into unbelievable, sentimental pap. My sympathies are with the author, who must have been appalled.
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