A child psychologist works with an eight-year-old to trap his father's killer in this whodunit that tries to keep rather too many options open for the comfort of the plot. There's a good cast, though: JoBeth Williams is the psychologist strangely reluctant to work on the case; Tom Skerritt is the police detective who calls her in; Darren McGavin and Season Hubley have peripheral roles; and the terrified boy is wide-eyed Elijah Wood, now Frodo in the Lord of the Rings films. All of them deliver more than the material deserves, in an interesting yarn that could have been even more suspenseful than under Mike Robe's too-diffused direction.


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