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Title: Interesting, but skirts the edges of an inappropriate ralationship.
Review: Liam Neeson is a disillusioned Roman Catholic Brother, Michael Lamb, instructing boys at a reform school in Ireland. Shortly after he's charged with the care of abused, delinquent, epileptic ten-year-old Owen Kane (Hugh O'Connor), his own father dies. Both emotionally needy, the man and boy develop a fondness for each other that's clearly inappropriate, though not sexual.Feeling desperate, Lamb takes a loan on his pending inheritance and runs away with the boy across the sea to Wales and finally London, naively oblivious of the consequences. Because both were oppressed by the head of the school (Ian Bannen), you'll almost want to root for them getting away, but the film keeps skirting the edges of the inappropriateness of their relationship, with a shocking ending.There's good acting, music by Van Morrison, and the film might keep your interest mainly out of sympathy for the boy, hoping it will turn out ok.
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