Families, Step-kids & Orphans (Children in Films Book 2)

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Coco is one of the best movies I've seen. Out of all of these movies, I think Star Wars is the best one, even though things like that should be in a 'Best movies of for tweens' or something. When Susan confronts Henry, he coldly reminds her that the toy had belonged to him before it had been Richard's.

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Henry flips his demeanor and kindly asks for the duck back but Susan refuses. Henry tries to take it from her and after a violent tug-of-war, he snatches the duck and runs to the cemetery where he throws it down a well. As Susan and Mark grow closer, Henry insinuates he will kill Susan rather than let Mark continue to develop a relationship with her.

When a fight breaks out between the two boys, Wallace locks Mark in the den. Henry asks a suspicious Susan to go for a walk with him, while Mark escapes the den and chases after them. Susan confronts Henry, asking him if he killed his brother. Henry confesses that he did kill his brother by sarcastically replying, "What if I did? Susan gives chase and upon arriving at a cliff, Henry shoves her over the edge.

As Susan dangles precariously, Henry picks up a large rock he intends to throw down at her but Mark intervenes and tackles Henry. They fight and Henry viciously tries his best to kill Mark. Susan manages to pull herself up on to the clifftop and is just in time to dive forward and grab hold of the boys as they roll over the edge.

Lying flat on the rock she hangs on to both boys, one in each hand.

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Henry holds on with both hands but Mark's one-handed grip begins to slip. With only enough strength to save one of them, Susan, realizing the malevolence in Henry's nature, reluctantly releases him and he falls to his death. Susan pulls Mark up from the ledge and they look down upon Henry's corpse on the rocks below, before it is washed away into the ocean and they both share an emotional embrace. When Mark returns home to Arizona, he reflects upon Susan's choice to save him instead of Henry and wonders if she would make the same choice again but knows it is something he will never ask her.

Following the completion of his novel The Child in Time , English novelist Ian McEwan was invited by 20th Century Fox to write a screenplay "about evil - possibly concerning children.

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Enthusiastic about the script, originally sent to her as a writing sample, Page tried to get the project off the ground for three and a half years. The film was briefly set up at Universal Studios , during which Brian Gilbert was attached as director. In , Michael Klesic was originally cast in the role of Henry Evans.

Mary Steenburgen was cast as Susan [3] and Jesse Bradford had replaced Klesic as Henry because he had grown too old to play the part. This progress was suddenly interrupted when Kit Culkin , Macaulay Culkin 's father and manager, at the time a notoriously influential force in Hollywood due to the child's stardom, wanted his son to star in the film. Wishing to prove Macaulay's capacity in a dark role, he made his part in The Good Son a condition for his appearing in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.

Fox agreed enthusiastically due to Culkin's bankability. As the movie was originally scheduled to shoot at the same time as Home Alone 2 , the start date for The Good Son was pushed back for a year, making Steenburgen no longer available and having her replaced by Wendy Crewson but also enabling Elijah Wood 's involvement.

Director Lehmann and producer Mark conflicted with the imposition, leading both to leave the project. The demanding Culkin would go on to insist that his daughter Quinn receive a role in the film and vetted replacement director Joseph Ruben Sleeping with the Enemy. McEwan found himself performing further rewrites that continued to simplify the story to satisfy Ruben's comparatively mainstream tastes and was ultimately unceremoniously removed from the project altogether when another screenwriter was commissioned, Ruben's frequent collaborator David Loughery.

Despite this, McEwan was awarded sole writing credit in arbitration when he contested a shared credit. Roger Ebert , who deemed the film inappropriate for children, awarded it half a star, calling the project a "creepy, unpleasant experience". Bernstein and Patrick Russ. A tie-in novel was published alongside the movie's release in , written by Todd Strasser.

The novel elaborates on the movie, detailing how Henry was born a sociopath, rather than being some personification of evil.

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In the novel, Henry's mother Susan eventually discovers that Henry is unable to understand emotions like love and sorrow and that pleasure derived from selfish actions and the torment of others are the few things he truly feels. The book also concludes differently from the movie, ending with Mark returning to Uncle Wallace's home in Maine one year later. Mark and Susan visit Henry's grave, which includes an epitaph: