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Crimes of the Past
After Tommy Sparrow is severely wounded in a covert CIA operation, he comes home to discover his wife with another man. Tommy’s rage and wounds frighten his seven-year-old daughter Josephine. When Tommy’s wife tells him to leave and never come home, Tommy disappears back into the CIA, employing his skills as a spy to covertly watch his only daughter grow up.Twenty-five years later, Tommy Sparrow finally comes in from the cold – to retirement. Josephine is battling her own destructive nature and the damage done by the disappearance of her father. Tommy carries his scars both inside and out – and while his cold war operations never seem far behind, Tommy’s journey home will surpass any mission he ran with the Agency – because reuniting with Josephine and becoming her father may cost him his life.
| Release : | 2009 |
| Rating : | 4.3 |
| Studio : | |
| Crew : | Director, Writer, |
| Cast : | David Rasche Elisabeth Röhm Eric Roberts Chad Lindberg |
| Genre : | Drama Action Thriller Mystery |
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Great Film overall
Admirable film.
This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
The movie transcended many of the usual independent films. It certainly had a soul to it. It's not a movie packed with special effects that blow your mind nor is it an action packed movie. It's a movie that if you tune in, will bring you along at a very good pace as the relationships build and develop. My sense was the storyline wasn't as thick as it should have been and the villain should have had more impact, but nonetheless I think it was beautiful and I'd recommend it to an intelligent audience member. It's not exactly an intense action film but the story leaves you pondering afterward about your own relationship and a movie that leaves you thinking. The direction, cinematography were very well done and the acting was truly solid.
This was a solid film overall. I enjoyed the setting of Seattle and the photography and story and the actors. I am always interested in what Eric Roberts does and an actor and find him to be electric on screen. The actor that plays the spy character is fantastic. I've seen him in another other films and always like his acting. I liked the actress as well that plays his daughter and found the lawyer character very unique and different. I got caught up in this film in a gradual way. Based on the description I sensed that I should not plan or expect the movie to be something of action but more of a character film and for that I liked the movie. Another thumbs up about the movie was the casting of the girl that plays the her daughter. Movies sometimes don't seem to cast the best children that feel real and this girl was very, very solid.
The ambitious espionage thriller blends well with an intense family drama and weaves together a good story. Thomas Sparrow (David Rasche) plays a CIA agent in Berlin during the Cold War era who was involved in transferring of money. The assignment goes wrong... And now Sparrow is retired and has come back to Seattle in hopes of reuniting with his daughter Josephine (Elisabeth Rohm), whom he hasn't seen for years. The film is engrossing, and very well acted!Eric Roberts delivers a wonderful performance as Josephine's shrink, who also happens to be a former CIA employee. I saw the Hollywood Reporter Review which mentioned that the more crucial accomplishment to the film was the insight into all of the characters and that it was a densely layered mosaic, and I agreed.
This is a well-made movie, with no glaring flaws (unlike the other SIFF film with Röhm and Roberts). Unfortunately, there's not too much more to the story than what the SIFF blurb tells you, and I was left feeling that there was much more story and emotion to be had from the characters if we could have spent another hour in their world. On paper there certainly are plenty of reasons to feel for these characters, but in the end I just didn't care that much about what happened to them. According to the director, the CIA angle of the story was not part of the original plot, which explains why it seems out of place as anything more than a vehicle for the ex-spy's character's to spy on his daughter.7/10
