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No parent or caregiver wants to think they could accidentally harm or kill their child, but, as this film shows, even very caring parents can make a horrible mistake. The rest of us get lucky that we turn around just in time or hear something that alerts us to a potential problem.

I appreciate the frankness of these parents and how well they express themselves. My heart goes out to them.

I recommend the Washington Post article "Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime?" by Gene Weingarten. He rightly won a Pulitzer for the piece. He goes into more detail about some elements that got less time here. Some of it is tough reading, but I am grateful to have learned.

The film raises lots of questions it never answers, leaving viewers with an ending but few meaningful revelations. The real story should have begun at the point the point where this film stops, and that's a shame.

Interesting story of an incredibly messed up father and son and their crimes. Script has some really bad, cliched writing though, to the point where when I should have been on the edge of my seat near the end I burst out laughing. And Colin Ferguson, bless him, has all the personality of a block of wood. Should give it two stars, but I find Paul Michael Glaser so damn sexy, even playing someone this unbelievably creepy, that I threw in an extra star.