The truth is hiding where no-one dares to look.
Based on Richard Price's best-selling novel, which opens as a bruised and bloodied white woman named Brenda Martin (Julianne Moore) stumbles into a Dempsey, New Jersey USA, emergency room, claiming that a black man stole her car with her 4-year-old son in the back-seat. Veteran detective Lorenzo Council (Samuel L Jackson) is assigned to investigate the case, and despite reservations about Brenda's story, he launches an all-out search for the abducted boy. Jesse Haus, an ambitious young reporter for the local newspaper, also suspects that Brenda is hiding something, and she befriends the grief-stricken mother in an attempt to break the biggest story of her career. But as the search for the alleged car-jacker intensifies, smouldering racial tensions between the predominantly black city of Dempsey and its mostly white neighbour, Gannon, threaten to explode.
Special Agent Matti
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MA 15+ (Strong themes)
113 minutes (1:53 hours)
Film: Undated 2006
