Frailty (2002)

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Rating: R
Release Date: Apr 12, 2002
Running Time: 99 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
director: Bill Paxton
synopsis
A tale which follows an FBI investigation in present day Texas. Fenton Meiks, a young man, approaches the lead FBI investigator, claiming he knows the identity of a serial killer who calls himself "God's Hands." The FBI agent is curious, but unimpressed until Fenton reveals that the killer is his younger brother Adam. Fenton recounts in a series of flashbacks, how he and his brother grew up in a very loving family, raised by their widowed father. All that changed, the day his father awoke, believing he had been visited by an angel and given a mission to destroy "demons" - seemingly normal looking people, who walked this earth as pure evil. Fenton's father, and then his brother Adam, swore to carry out this 'divine' mission. Fenton refused to participate in the killings. Out of loyalty however, he refused to go to the police, until now. The FBI agent follows Fenton to the family's rose garden only to be surprised that neither evil nor innocence are what they seem.
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rating September 27, 2002
Resist the temptation to pick up the usual crap (yes, I mean The Scorpion King) and take a risk with the potently creepy, criminally underrated Frailty.

Bill Paxton stars as a Texas widower on a mission from God who recruits his two young sons (Matthew O'Leary and Jeremy Sumpter) to kill demons. So what if the demons look like the people next door. Paxton also scores impressively as a director -- the cast includes Matthew McConaughey as one of his older sons -- and uses the disc's plentiful… Continued

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Because the movie is told mostly in flashback, McConaughey is relegated mostly to voiceover and a few present-day scenes in which he acts frighteningly morose and gives the sense that there's more to his story than first meets the eye. Because most of the story takes place in 1979, the boys are the ones who really make this film work. Fenton the younger (Matthew O'Leary) is a real find--he clearly struggles with his love for his father, whom he knows has gone over the edge, and his repulsion for… Continued

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Director
Fenton Meeks
Agent Wesley Doyle
Young Fenton Meeks
Sheriff Smalls
Young Adam Meeks
Agent Griffin Hull
Brad White
Cynthia Harbridge
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