Movie Trailer Scene Where Kid Picks a Fight Then Throws a Rock Then Again and Walks Away

1993 psychological thriller film directed by Joseph Ruben

The Good Son
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Joseph Ruben
Written past	Ian McEwan
Produced by	Joseph Ruben Mary Ann Page
Starring	Macaulay Culkin Elijah Forest Wendy Crewson David Morse Jacqueline Brookes
Cinematography	John Lindley
Edited past	George Bowers
Music past	Elmer Bernstein
Distributed by	20th Century Play tricks
Release date	September 24, 1993 (1993-09-24)
Running time	83 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$17 million
Box office	$60.vi million[two]

The Good Son is a 1993 American psychological thriller film directed past Joseph Ruben and distributed by 20th Century Fox. Information technology was written past English novelist Ian McEwan. Its story follows a young male child named Marking who, later the death of his female parent, is sent to stay with his aunt and uncle while his father is abroad on concern. While in that location he meets his cousin Henry, who shows signs of trigger-happy and evil behavior. Information technology stars Macaulay Culkin, Elijah Woods, Wendy Crewson, David Morse, Daniel Hugh Kelly, and Jacqueline Brookes.

The motion-picture show was produced by Joseph Ruben and Mary Ann Page and was released on September 24, 1993. It grossed $12.5 meg during its opening weekend and $threescore.6 million worldwide, against a budget of $17 million.^[3] It received negative reviews from critics and has a 26% approval rating based on 27 votes on Rotten Tomatoes.^[4]

Plot [edit]

Equally a 12-year-old living in Arizona, Mark Evans has recently experienced the decease of his mother, Janice. Before leaving on a business organization trip to Tokyo, Mark's male parent Jack delivers him to his Uncle Wallace and Aunt Susan's business firm in Maine, where he will stay during wintertime break. Marking is reintroduced after ten years to his extended family unit, including his cousins Connie and Henry. Mark and Henry get along at first and Henry seems to be nice and well-mannered. However, Henry displays an abnormal fascination with expiry, making Mark feel uneasy.

Henry begins to display psychopathic behavior, which Mark is unable to tell Wallace and Susan about due to Henry's threats. Ane of his violent actions is throwing a dummy off a bridge onto the highway, causing a massive vehicle pileup. He so plans to kill Connie. Agape something might happen to her, Marker spends the night in her room. The next morning, Mark awakens to find Henry has taken Connie ice skating. At the pond, Henry purposely throws her toward sparse water ice, which collapses. Connie is rescued, but ends up in a coma. Despite not believing Mark initially, Susan becomes suspicious and is able to interrupt when Henry visits Connie's room, planning to suffocate her. Susan so finds a rubber duck Henry has hidden in his shed. Information technology had once belonged to Henry'south younger brother Richard and had been with him in the bathtub the night he drowned; the duck went missing after. When Susan confronts Henry, he coldly reminds her that the toy had belonged to him before information technology had been Richard's. He then flips and kindly asks for the rubber duck back. After a trigger-happy tug-of-war, he takes the toy and throws it down the well.

Equally Susan and Marker grow closer, Henry insinuates he will kill Susan rather than let Marking keep 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 Marking escapes and chases after them. Susan confronts Henry, asking him if he killed Richard, to which Henry sarcastically replies, "What if I did?" Realizing that Marker was right about her son's true nature, Susan tells Henry that he needs help, only he refuses and flees. Susan gives chase and upon arriving at a cliff, Henry shoves her over the border. As Susan dangles, Henry picks up a large rock he intends to drop on Susan, but Mark tackles him. Susan manages to pull herself up simply in time to grab hold of the boys every bit they roll over the edge, one in each hand. Henry holds on with both easily but Marker'south i-handed grip begins to sideslip. With merely enough strength to save one of them, Susan reluctantly releases Henry and he falls to his death. Susan pulls Mark upwardly and they look down as Henry's corpse is done away into the ocean.

When Mark returns home to Arizona, he reflects upon Susan's choice to save him instead of Henry. He wonders if she would brand the aforementioned choice again but knows it is something he will never enquire her.

Bandage [edit]

• Elijah Wood every bit Mark Evans
• Macaulay Culkin as Henry Evans
• Wendy Crewson equally Susan Evans
• David Morse equally Jack Evans
• Daniel Hugh Kelly every bit Wallace Evans
• Jacqueline Brookes equally Alice Davenport
• Quinn Culkin equally Connie Evans
• Ashley Crow equally Janice Evans
• Rory Culkin every bit Richard Evans (pictured merely)
• Guy Strauss every bit Arizona Doctor
• Keith Brava as Medico in Blackport
• Jerem Goodwin as Manufactory Worker
• Andria Hall as Woman Reporter
• Bobby Huber equally Axe Man
• Mark Stefanich equally Ice Man
• Susan Hopper every bit Woman at Rescue

Production [edit]

Following the completion of his novel The Child in Time, English language novelist Ian McEwan was invited past 20th Century Play tricks to write a screenplay "nearly evil – perchance concerning children." McEwan recalled, "The thought was to brand a low budget, high grade movie, not something that Fox would naturally make a lot of coin on." Despite being well received, the stop effect was deemed comparatively commercial by the parties that commissioned it and it floated effectually Hollywood until being discovered by independent producer Mary Ann Page. Enthusiastic about the script, originally sent to her as a writing sample, Page tried to get the project off the ground for iii and a half years. The film was briefly gear up at Universal Studios, during which Brian Gilbert was attached equally managing director. In 1988, Michael Klesic was originally cast in the office of Henry Evans. The motion picture was soon after put on hold due to a lack of funding.

Following the successes of Dwelling house Alone and The Silence of the Lambs, which respectively demonstrated the appeal of both a movie virtually kids and of an "extreme thriller," Fox itself chose to revisit the project, which they now saw as viable. Director Michael Lehmann (Heathers) became attached, Laurence Mark was appointed every bit a co-producer and McEwan was chosen in for rewrites. Mary Steenburgen was cast as Susan and Jesse Bradford had replaced Klesic every bit Henry because he had grown too old to play the role. McEwan was optimistic about the project and past Nov 1991, sets were being built in Maine for a production that would cost approximately $12 million. This progress was suddenly interrupted when Kit Culkin, Macaulay Culkin'south begetter and manager, at the time a notoriously influential force in Hollywood due to the kid's stardom, wanted his son to star in the film. Wishing to evidence Macaulay's capacity in a dark role, he made his son's part in The Good Son a condition for his appearing in Home Lone 2: Lost in New York. Fox agreed enthusiastically due to Culkin'south bankability.

As the moving picture was originally scheduled to shoot at the same time as Home Alone two, the start date for The Proficient Son was pushed back for a year, making Steenburgen no longer available and having her replaced past Wendy Crewson but likewise enabling Elijah Woods's involvement. Director Lehmann and producer Mark conflicted with the imposition, leading both to exit the project. The demanding Culkin would go on to insist that Macaulay'due south sis, Quinn, receive a role in the motion picture and vetted replacement managing director Joseph Ruben (Sleeping with the Enemy). Furthermore, the budget had risen to an estimated $twenty 1000000. McEwan found himself performing further rewrites that continued to simplify the story to satisfy Ruben'south insufficiently mainstream tastes and was ultimately unceremoniously removed from the projection altogether when another screenwriter was commissioned, Ruben's frequent collaborator David Loughery. Despite this, McEwan was awarded sole writing credit in mediation when he contested a shared credit.^[5]

Release [edit]

The Skillful Son was theatrically released on September 24, 1993. It was released on VHS and Laserdisc in 1994. A DVD of the picture show was released on September 11, 2012. A Blu-ray release of The Good Son was announced on October 25, 2016 and was released on August i, 2017.

Elmer Bernstein's score to The Good Son was released in 1993 by Fox Music.^[half-dozen] The score was orchestrated by Emilie A. Bernstein and Patrick Russ, and featured Cynthia Millar on ondes martenot.

A tie-in novel was published alongside the picture's release in 1993, written by Todd Strasser. The novel elaborates on the film, detailing how Henry was born a sociopath, rather than being some personification of evil. In the novel, Henry'south mother Susan somewhen 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 besides concludes differently from the movie, ending with Mark returning to Uncle Wallace's home in Maine one year subsequently. Marking and Susan visit Henry's grave, which includes an epitaph: "Without Darkness There Can Be No Calorie-free".

Reception [edit]

Box office [edit]

The Good Son earned Us$44,789,789 at the North American box office revenues, and another $fifteen,823,219 in other territories, for a full worldwide box office take of $60,613,008.^{[seven] [8]}

Critics [edit]

As of October 2020, on Rotten Tomatoes, the film had an approval rating of 26% based on 27 reviews, with an average rating of 4.27/10. The site'southward consensus stated: "The Expert Son is never good enough to live upwards to its unsettling potential, failing to drum upward much suspense and unable to make Macaulay Culkin a credible psychopath."^[nine] As of December 2020, on Metacritic, the picture had a weighted boilerplate score of 45 out of 100 based on 17 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews."^[10] Audiences polled past CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F calibration.^[11]

Roger Ebert, who deemed the film inappropriate for children, awarded it half a star, calling the project a "creepy, unpleasant feel".^[12] He and Gene Siskel later on gave it "Two Thumbs Down".^[13] Many critics criticized the casting of Culkin because of his comedic image from Home Alone.^{[fourteen] [fifteen]} Hal Hinson of The Washington Post stated that "the mere presence of the adorable boy star... seems to throw the whole film out of whack, making the picture play more than like an inadvertent comedy than a thriller."^[16] Janet Maslin in The New York Times wrote that the end sequence at the cliff "is ane of its few suspenseful and original moments" and "is quite literally gripping."^[17]

Paul Willinstein of The Morning Phone call described the film as "Habitation Alone meets Misery meets The Hand That Rocks The Cradle."^[eighteen]

Analysis [edit]

John Kenneth Muir in Horror Films of the 1990s wrote that the main divergence between this and The Bad Seed was that the mother character ends Henry's bad acquit, while in the latter the mother is unable to terminate Rhoda Penmark.^[xix]

See also [edit]

• The Other (1972 motion picture)
• The Bad Seed

References [edit]

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2. ^ "The Good Son (1993)". Box Part Mojo . Retrieved Apr 19, 2017.
3. ^ "The Skillful Son". Box Office Mojo . Retrieved September eight, 2020.
4. ^ The Good Son (1993) , retrieved September eight, 2020
5. ^ Durrant, Sabine (August 19, 1993). "Motion-picture show / 'I thought naught could possibly get wrong. Huh': Ian McEwan was happy with his first Hollywood film. Information technology was small but classy. And so forth came Macaulay Culkin'south dad . . . Sabine Durrant reports". The Independent . Retrieved Jan 23, 2014.
6. ^ "The Good Son (Soundtrack) - Elmer Bernstein - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved September 11, 2017.
7. ^ "The Good Son (1993) - Box Role Mojo". Retrieved April xix, 2017.
8. ^ Play a trick on, David J. (September 28, 1993). "Weekend Box Office : 'Son' Finds Good in Evil at Box Function". The Los Angeles Times . Retrieved January 28, 2011.
9. ^ "The Proficient Son". Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved December 30, 2018.
10. ^ "The Good Son Reviews - Metacritic". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
11. ^ "Cinemascore". Archived from the original on Dec xx, 2018.
12. ^ Ebert, Roger (September 24, 1993). "The Good Son". Chicago Sun-Times.
13. ^ The Good Son from At the Movies
14. ^ Rosenbaum, Jonathan (July 25, 2007). "The Practiced Son". The Chicago Reader . Retrieved May 19, 2017.
15. ^ Howe, Desson (Jan ane, 2000). "'The Good Son' (R)". The Washington Post . Retrieved May 19, 2017.
16. ^ Hinson, Hal (September xiv, 1993). "'The Expert Son' (R)". The Washington Postal service . Retrieved May nineteen, 2017. ^{[ dead link ]}
17. ^ Maslin, Janet (September 24, 1993). "Reviews/Film; Beneath a Cute Outside Resides a Deadly Brat". The New York Times . Retrieved June 19, 2020.
18. ^ Willinstein, Paul (September 25, 1993). "MACAULAY CULKIN TURNS EVIL IN Spooky 'GOOD SON". The Morn Phone call . Retrieved June 19, 2020.
19. ^ Muir, John Kenneth (2011). Horror Films of the 1990s. Jefferson, N Carolina: McFarland & Company. p. 285. ISBN9780786484805.

External links [edit]

• The Good Son at IMDb
• The Proficient Son at the TCM Pic Database
• The Good Son at AllMovie
• The Good Son at Rotten Tomatoes

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