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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1993 DVD Release: 02/03/2004 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 26 mins Studio: 20th Century Fox Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Thriller, Psychological Thriller

Macaulay Culkin tries for a change of pace playing a schoolyard psychotic in The Good Son. When 12-year-old son Mark (Elijah Wood) is his mother's side as she's dying of cancer, she makes him promise her that she won't die. When she does die, Mark is consumed with grief, as well as guilt that he couldn't keep his promise. Mark's father Jack (David Morse) has to go away for a two week business trip to Tokyo shortly after his wife's death. Thinking that the blustery Maine environment will do him good, he drops Mark off with the family of his Uncle Wallace (Daniel High Kelly). At first, Mark is withdrawn, but soon he begins to warm to his Aunt Susan (Wendy Crewson), his cousin Connie (Quinn Culkin), and particularly his cousin Henry (Macauley Culkin). Mark and Henry pal around together, but Mark begins to notice some of Henry's ideas of fun differ significantly from his own. For example, Henry demonstrates his homemade crossbow by killing the neighbor's dog, and shows Mark his dummy (called "Mr. Highway") that he drops from an overpass onto a highway, causing a 10-car pileup. Mark begins to suspect that the death of Henry's baby brother wasn't an accident, and it appears Henry is now making plans to rub out his sister. But when Mark tries to warn Henry's parents of their son's homicidal tendencies, they refuse to listen to him. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Macaulay Culkin - Henry Evans
Elijah Wood - Mark Evans
Wendy Crewson - Susan Evans
David Morse - Jack
Daniel Hugh Kelly - Wallace

Joseph Ruben's 1993 thriller The Good Son comes to DVD from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. This dual-sided disc presents the film with both widescreen and full-frame transfers. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo. Special features include a featurette and a trailer. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide