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The Tie That Binds (1995)

Rate: 4
Viewed: 10/23

10/23: The Tie That Binds isn't original.

The cast of Daryl Hannah, Keith Carradine, Vincent Spano, and Moira Kelly doesn't grab my attention, but it's unusual to see Keith Carradine playing a baddie this way. What I don't like is the feel; it's like trying walk across a field in the mud: slow and plodding.

The six-year-old girl is annoying; she just sits there and expects everything to be easy. Clearly, she's damaged goods, causing me to question the whole adoption process. Who knows where these kids are coming from? Her mother is mentally retarded. On the other hand, I don't understand how the father had escaped the police for so long.

All in all, The Tie That Binds doesn't prove to be a favorable start for the first-time director Wesley Strick who's more of a writer.

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