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A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, who sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, hires an attorney to protect him when the district attorney tries to use him to take down a mob family.
Susan Sarandon, the emotional center of the narrative, received a well-deserved Oscar nomination for playing a recovered alcoholic laywer who interacts with the boy as a surrogate mother and a pro.
An engrossing potboiler ... if you don't think too hard. But when you need a pot-smoking Lez Zeppelin-enslaved swamp rat-with-a-brain to plead your case, you call the pitch-perfect Susan Sarandon.
June 14, 2004
Globe and Mail
It's a successful frame-turner, no more, no less, and the pleasure we feel is every bit as mild and just as fleeting.