Behind the Mask (1999) (TV)

Voti degli utenti:

5.6/10   

Regista:

Tom McLoughlin

Writers (WGA):

Robert Shushan (life story) and
James Jones (life story) ...

Data di uscita:

28 febbraio 1999 (USA)

Genere:

Drama

Plot:

Dr. Bob Shushan is an overworked and absent father who runs a centre for the mentally and physically challenged...

Plot Keywords:

Father Son Relationship | Delivery Man | Mental Illness | Mentally Disabled | Nightmare

Premi:

2 nominations

Recensioni degli utenti:

Estimable Work Based Upon Actual Events.

Cast

Donald Sutherland	...	Dr. Bob Shushan
Matthew Fox	...	James Jones
Mary McDonnell	...	Mary Shushan
Bradley Whitford	...	Brian Shushan (as Brad Whitford)
Sheila Larken	...	Dana
Lorena Gale	...	Mrs. Flowers
Ron Sauvé	...	Gordon Jones
Currie Graham	...	Geller
Jennifer Clement	...	Kimberly Shushan
Dillon Moen	...	Avery Shusan
Ty Olsson	...	Truck Driver
Deanna Williams	...	Hospital Clerk
Damon Johnson	...	Job Candidate
Peter Bryant	...	Brian's Colleague
Kimberly Hawthorne	...	Pastor Jessie Haynes (as Kim Hawthorne)

Alias:

Oltre la maschera (Italy) [it]

Durata:

90 min

Nazionalità:

USA

Lingua:

Inglese | Spagnolo

Colore:

Colore

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sonoro:

Stereo

Divieti:

Australia:PG | UK:PG

Luoghi delle riprese:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Morrow-Heus Productions

Estimable Work Based Upon Actual Events.

An interesting film based upon the experiences of Dr. Robert Shushan and his British Columbian Centre for the Mentally and Physically Disabled, MASK focuses upon his complex relationship with a disturbed young man, James Jones, employed at the Centre as a janitor, and the psychologist's attempt to locate the father of Jones. After the overworking Shushan (Donald Sutherland) suffers a heart attack, Jones (Matthew Fox) who is responsible for saving his life, urges the older man to repay him by helping him search for his sire, but the Centre's board members have decided that the convalescent should withdraw from his longstanding position as director. Sutherland portrays a workaholic who has neglected his family, and his perceived failure by his son Brian (Bradley Whitford) provides impetus for a surrogate father/son agnation to develop between Shushan and the parentally bereft Jones. Edited much more crisply than most films made for television, it is necessary that MASK be shot primarily in Vancouver and its eastern suburb Burnaby, benefiting therewith from employment of handicapped individuals, in bit parts and as extras, most of whom are involved in local acting workshops for the mentally impaired. The work is somewhat clichéd and lifeless until its closing scenes, which are entirely potent and enhanced by actual footage of the real James Jones in a moving after piece directly relating to the climactic moments of the scenario. Sutherland, Fox and Whitford are impressive and a nicely nuanced thematic score is contributed by Jonathan Goldsmith for a production which can be added to the short list of motion pictures which treat without self-consciousness of the importance of adult father/son consanguinity.