Silent Fall Summary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bruce Beresford
Genres: Mystery, Thriller
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This by-the-numbers psychodrama about a child psychologist trying to discern the truth behind a pair of murders stars Richard_Dreyfuss as Dr. Jake Rainer, a child psychologist living in an upscale community. Rainer retired when a patient committed suicide, but the local sheriff (J.T. Walsh) calls him to the scene of a double murder. In a lavish home, Rainer meets Tim Warden (Ben_Faulkner) and his sister Sylvie (Liv_Tyler, in her feature film debut), whose parents have been brutally slain. Sylvie hid in a closet and didn't see the killer, but Tim, who is autistic and cannot communicate, witnessed the crime. Rainer starts the complicated process of reaching Tim through gentle psychological techniques based on his theory that autistics think in sequences, while a colleague (John_Lithgow) simply wants to drug the child into revealing the killer's identity. The real-life son of child psychologists who worked with autistic children, Silent Fall screenwriter Akiva_Goldsman had better success with his first film, an adaptation of The_Client (1994), a drama with a similar plot and themes. Karl Williams, Rovi
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