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Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Linda Hamilton, John Lithgow, Liv Tyler
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Silent Fall |
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Richard Dreyfuss stars as therapist Jake Rainer in this dramatic thriller written by Akiva Goldsman. Summoned to a savage double murder scene, Jake finds an officer trying to get a knife away from an autistic boy named Tim Warden (Ben Faulkner). Tim's eighteen your old sister Sylvie (Liv Tyler) is cooperative, telling the police about a mysterious man that she walked in on. Sherriff Mitch Rivers (J.T.Walsh) has no clues and asks Jake to help pull the information thats hidden within Tim. But we come to learn throughout the movie that Jake has tremendous guilt over a young boy who committed suicide in his care and doesn't want to help. Jake eventually gives in and through several sessions he learns that Tim speaks through many voices -- other peoples voices, specifically his sister, mother and father. Just as Jake is about to make a break through with Tim, Sheriff Rivers gets Tim in the hands of Dr. Harlinger (John Lithgow). The doctor hypnotizes Tim and purposely sends him in a rage to show his abnormal strength. This leads the Sheriff to believe Tim killed his parents. Jake begs for one more day to work with Tim, and he gets it but Sylvie has other things in store for Jake. She drugs him and puts him on a frozen lake to drown but he doesn't. As he crawls back in he figures out everything that happened that night when he looks at the cards that Tim had been cutting through out the movie.
--Bobby Blades, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Silent Fall |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
How difficult to spot villain?
- Challenging
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 60%
Misc. Plotlets
- victim dies just after sex
Special suspect?
- relative
Kind of mystery?
- skilled citizen investigator
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- doctor
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- white
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- a teen
Profession/status:
- student
Eccentric:
Yes
- mentally ill
- emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (woman) long straight
Body type
- ample chest and buttocks (woman)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
How many deaths in film?
- 2
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
Kind of violence:
- knives
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
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