You've seen more depressing films than this, but not many. Bridges is fresh out of jail and reunited with his 14-year-old son (Furlong). Their accommodation is grubby and the landlady dubious about their ability to pay. Still, Bridges gets a job as a window-cleaner and the kid has to enrol in school. It's the filmmakers rather than society who decree these people have no chance. Happy endings were well out of style when this was made, so Bridges loses all his earnings to a vengeful ex-partner-in-crime and the kid is soon consorting with junkies, pushers, strippers and hookers. It gets so that you can't wait for Bridges to go back to crime so that you can all go home. It takes nearly two hours, though, and in all that time not one of the performers reaches our emotions.

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