Shea Whigham plays a social worker who tries to protect a client from her abusive ex-con husband in Michele Civetta's crime thriller, also featuring Olivia Munn and Bruce Dern.
before submitting those MSW applications. If you believe Michele Civetta’s thriller, the job mostly involves finding dead bodies and getting involved with violent altercations with dangerous criminals; being an ex-boxer and wearing a gun is highly advised. The lead character is named Parker, and viewers shouldn’t be blamed if they confuse him with the tough-guy thief immortalized in crime novelist Donald E. Westlake’s long-running series.
Although the film strongly signals its serious intentions by being bookended with a Charles Dickens quote and statistics about how many children enter foster care every year, it mostly resembles the sort of B-movie thriller that was a staple of ’70s-era grindhouses. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but the overall pretentiousness and lack of humor make it more of a slog than a guilty pleasure.
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