A good movie

It must be one of the most obscure movies starring Keira Knightley but I thought it was a pretty good flick. She did this one just before her breakthrough performance in ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl’. For once, she wasn’t showing up in some period piece and I thought it was kind of refreshing and she didn’t have the lead part but I thought she gave a solid performance. As a matter of fact, I’m not even sure that Molly Parker was the lead either. I always thought Parker is a rather interesting actress but she never really managed to breakthrough on the silver screen. She was also pretty good in here but I thought she still looked too good to portray a heroin addict. Eventually, both actress were upstaged by Harry Eden, portraying the young boy around which the story is taking place. Even though the whole thing is a rather standard drug drama, thanks to his amazing and heartbreaking performance, he made the whole thing really stand out. I have seen him a few years later playing the Artful Dodger for Polanski’s ‘Oliver Twist’,and it was also the best performance in this movie. He was definitely a talented little fellow and I wonder what he is up to now. Anyway, even though it is nothing really original or mind-blowing, I thought it was a solid drug drama and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

7/10