Little Boy Blue ( 1997 ) ( Wait Till Dawn )

Little Boy Blue ( 1997 ) (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Wait Till Dawn
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Surround )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Denmark ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
100 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Biographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1997 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Antonio Tibaldi

Written By:
Antonio Tibaldi
Michael Boston

Actors:
Ryan Phillippe ..... Jimmy West
Nastassja Kinski ..... Kate West
John Savage ..... Ray West
Shirley Knight ..... Doris Knight
Tyrin Turner ..... Nate Carr
Jenny Lewis ..... Traci Connor
Brent Jennings ..... Tom
John Doman ..... Andy Berg
Devon Michael ..... Mark West
Adam Burke ..... Mikey West
Kaitlin Hopkins ..... Young Doris Knight
Dennis Letts ..... Sergeant Phillips
Jerry Cotton ..... Detective Fleaharty
Michael Boston ..... Leo Dalt
Gail Cronauer ..... Motel Clerk

Synopsis:

A teenager tries to shield his family from his father's violence in this downbeat drama. Jimmy West (Ryan Phillippe) is a young man growing up within a horribly dysfunctional family in a small Texas town. His father Ray (John Savage) is a Vietnam veteran whose physical and emotional scars from the war have turned him into a psychotic; he terrorizes his two younger children, Mikey (Adam Burke) and Mark (Devon Michael), brutalizes his wife Kate (Nastassja Kinski), and sometimes forces Jimmy and Kate to have sex at gunpoint. Jimmy's girlfriend Traci (Jenny Lewis) is about to move away to attend college, and while Jimmy would like to go with her (and with his abilities as a baseball player he could probably win a scholarship), he's afraid to leave his mother and siblings behind with no protection against Ray's abuse. One night, a man stops by Ray's tavern and begins asking questions; the stranger arouses Ray's fear and suspicion, and he never makes it home after an 'accident' in the man's room. The death leads the local police to begin asking questions of their own, and soon a number of ugly revelations about the family's history come to light.

Living in the rural Texas panhandle is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, who have an incestuous relationship at the insistence of the dad; and, two small sons who look a lot like their brother. The dad harbors a secret, and he goes to murderous lengths to keep it hidden. The young man, Jimmy, who sleeps out in the shed, has suspicions, but little comes out until a Yankee woman of middle age comes to town looking for a dead private eye. And why does dad keep calling Jimmy, "little boy blue"?

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 10 December, 2013.