Gradually, though, sympathy slips away here too, at least as far as Ethan is concerned. Josh’s parents, college professor Ethan Learner (Phoenix) and wife Grace (Jennifer Connelly), face a family’s worst nightmare.
The moment attorney Dwight Arno (Ruffalo) - coming home from a late-season Red Sox game with his son Lucas (Eddie Alderson) - fails to stop after slamming into 10-year-old Josh (Sean Curley) alongside a Connecticut gas station, he loses any sympathy, no matter how messed up his life is. “Reservation Road” represents a very tough sell for Focus Features as the film gets caught somewhere between a domestic weep-athon and revenge melodrama.Īudience sympathy never finds a natural outlet in this troubling drama, scripted by director Terry George and John Burnham Schwartz, based on Schwartz’s novel.
Neither situation is particularly appetizing to watch nor do two extremely unlikely coincidences help matters. TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - “Reservation Road” paints itself into a corner by creating a static situation in which everyone is either stymied or wracked by indecision, leaving the movie free for its two male leads to wallow in self-pity, remorse and bad behavior.Ī fatal hit-and-run accident provides a terrible intersection in the lives of two families, but to sustain the movie as a “dramatic thriller,” the callous driver - played by Mark Ruffalo in a sweaty-palms performance - cannot stop or turn himself in for weeks until the grieving father, Joaquin Phoenix, has driven himself into a homicidal frenzy. Actor Mark Ruffalo attends the "Reservation Road" gala at the 32nd Toronto International Film Festival September 13, 2007.
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