Review: The Good Son
After the death of his terminally ill mother, Elijah Wood is sent to live
with his uncle (Daniel Hugh Kelly) and aunt (Wendy Crewson), whilst dad David
Morse accepts a one-year job in Japan. Wood immediately hits it off with his
cousins Macaulay and Quinn Culkin, but soon Wood learns that Mac has a dark,
malicious side. Possibly even homicidal, he may have even killed his baby
brother years ago. Unfortunately, Mac has his mother wrapped around his little
finger, and there doesn’t appear to be a damn thing Wood can do about it. Also,
Wood starts to suspect that Crewson might be the reincarnation of his mother,
after his mother told him on her deathbed that she’d never leave him. This
doesn’t exactly help in convincing people that Mac is the murdering loon, not
Wood. Jacqueline Brooks plays a dense and extraordinarily gullible child
psychologist called in when there is concern over Wood’s increasingly
tempestuous and heightened behaviour.
This 1993 ‘bad seed’ thriller isn’t the best off…
This 1993 ‘bad seed’ thriller isn’t the best off…