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good back-story, and good acting

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Disturbed William Keane (Damian Lewis) is frantically searching the bus terminal in NYC. He's broke and barely able to pay for his room. He befriends neighbor Lynn Bedik (Amy Ryan) and her daughter Kira (Abigail Breslin). He does drugs with Michelle (Tina Holmes). He's looking for his daughter but it's questionable whether it's real or all in his mind.Damian Lewis does a brilliant job as a mentally disturbed man. I love the scene in the bar as he tries to listen to the music. More visual cinematic moves can be done to create his mental illness. He needs to have hallucinations of his daughter and she needs to be on screen. It's also a bit slow at times. Otherwise, this is a great character movie.

This will be remembered more for the period it was made rather than its content. It's hand-held cinema verite style in almost Dogma fashion is very much in that late nineties to mid 2000's vein. That's not necessarily a bad thing. The acting is top notch and the direction too and most of the elements are in place, even though it does feel like many others that came before it and since.The problem is in it's authenticity. The first act sets up a very damaged man. In the second he can apparently turn his illness off like a switch. Now many people can hide their problems, such as alcoholics, those with anger issues, but this doesn't border on the ridiculous, it is ridiculous. I'd love to hear from true sufferers such as the type revealed in the beginning of the film (very well portrayed by the way) but magically throws it out the window. I think it's an insult to genuine sufferers of mental illness.Still, the other characters are totally believable even if their actions are not always which seems such a shame because you do care about these people, especially when there's a child at stake. The ending simply annoyed and yet, again, slots right into that type of indie filmmaking typical of this period. It will ultimately be no different than looking back on film noir, early screwball comedy's, seventies horror or even eighties teenage flicks. A film entrenched in its style without fully extending beyond it. Which is a shame as so much of it is good, especially the primary performance.

keane has a nice atmosphere and cinematography that really keeps you on the edge of your seat. the acting of lewis is very absorbing through the constant close-ups. however, although i was very interested in what was going to happen, in the end this film disappointed me. there are so many story lines implied but none goes through till the end. the storyline happening in the film can be told in a 15 minute short max. everything besides is just a very slow paced characterization. there is no real development in the characters. and i really don't have the time to take a 50 minute intro until the first happens to take the story further. Introductions that long might work with films like BOBBY G CAN'T SWIM because after the introduction, at least a real good story develops. In this case, there is no story. Just observing a situation.if you are into film-making, watch this. It's a good example for keeping the audience interested by making them wait for something to happen (and then disappointing them by never giving anything) and has a good and absorbing cinematography. it's a superficial psychoanalysis.but if you want to see a good story, keep your hand of this. only thing good you will find is that they didn't stretch the film for longer than 90 minutes. you'll just wait for something to happen until, when the credits finally come in, you realize that you were waiting on the wrong bus stop.

keane is not an easy film to enjoy, but it is worth sticking with this intense, almost claustrophobic, character study about a man wandering the streets looking for the daughter he says was abducted a year before.Lewis' central performance fills the film and is little short of remarkable; slipping between despair, madness and anguish; finding love and wandering the streets; suppressing his psychological tics and mumbling incoherently, he is the film's emotional glue. Dramatically,it is not all plausible and there are a couple of mind wandering longueurs but it is, ultimately, a powerful piece of film that packs a subtle punch