Steve Martin Movie:

		List Price: $24.95		Label: LifeLine Entertainment, Inc. Salesrank: 67705 Released: November 13, 2007
		Our Price: $58.00
		MPAA Rating: Unrated Media: DVD

Editorial Review:
Studio: Repnet Llc Release Date: 02/26/2008

Return to Innocence Reviews:
very strange
2009-09-22 - Though well acted, well directed, somehow it misses something. I don't agree with the message that protecting the true pedophile was a good thing, just because it would have hurt his widow. I also would like to know why Amazon lists this among "gay" movies, this isn't a gay movie. Does Amazon think gay people are interested in pedophilic movies? Come on, Amazon, this isn't a gay film.

Wish there was a lower rating I could give
2009-06-28 - Do NOT waste your money on this! The movie is super boring, acting sucks, film quality very poor. Before buying it I had read how it looked "documentary style." Not like any documentaries I've ever seen! Even the ones done with basic camcorders have more film appeal than this movie.

It really is a shame because a LOT more could've been done with this theme.

Misleading reviews
2009-05-04 - Four stars for this movie is quite a stretch. Although the subject matter was interesting, the acting was atrocious, the music melodramatic; in general, a really bad movie.

02 26 2009
2009-02-27 - don't be suckered by the Bruce webber picture on the cover
its better than the film
the film is elementary at best - looks like it was filmed for a high school class.
If you get off on dialog then buy it
otherwise this is a stinker

stay away and save your money



when there is no innocence to return to
2008-12-17 - It concerns complexities. And it does so with stark honesty and delves into an issue that seems so simple on the outside looking in. The reason of betrayal was the boy's been walked away from after begging not to have another back turned, another door closed, and the terrible abuse of silence and alone.

Integrity is caught in a web and a web says this must always be looked at as in child molestation, which taints even the kindness of a word, brilliantly dissected by the lawyer uncomfortable as he may be with it.

The ending, the resolution, that all important character witness, the warmth of it, the showing there have been no strings to cut, only a deepest thank you for seeing a former street boy as a person, and Christmas, and come back, putting his own reputation on the line for a friend.

Though I doubt anyone can get a Phd. in writing the topic is not always as it seems, or be such an important part of New Horizons, it says much of how lonely this world, especially for children, and a kind man with an overflowing heart, can maintain dignity and every day of his life, give a place of safety to children with such dark, painful backgrounds.

A somber, well-thought out film, it never loses its footing. And reminds that syndromes are sometimes not that at all---just a need to have a human being see you, really see you, and to lash out at, then to help--we are such needy persons and sometimes just sometimes a film comes along and says look this way over here--and consider.